ABSTRACT

The immigrant’s journey is a paradigmatic example of the ‘betwixt and between’, both physically and socially ambiguous, suspended momentarily outside of normal society. For archaeologists studying nineteenth-century immigration around the British Empire, ‘institutions of immigration’ (emigrant and immigrant depots, quarantine stations, processing centres, etc.) provide access to this transitional state. Using the example of the Hyde Park Barracks Female Immigration Depot (1848–1887) in Sydney, Australia, the author demonstrates how these the institutional sites encountered throughout the immigrant’s journey were integral to the process of turning immigrants into settlers through the creation of new forms of daily practice.

摘要

移民的旅程是“介于两者之间”的典型例子，无论是在身体上还是在社会上都模棱两可，暂时悬在正常社会之外。对于研究大英帝国 19 世纪移民的考古学家来说，“移民机构”（移民和移民仓库、检疫站、加工中心等）提供了进入这个过渡国家的途径。以澳大利亚悉尼的海德公园兵营女性移民集中站（1848-1887）为例，作者展示了在整个移民旅程中遇到的这些机构场所如何成为通过创造新形式将移民转变为定居者的过程中不可或缺的一部分的日常练习。