| dc.description.abstract | In
the
following
two
chapters
I
will
attempt
to
offer
a
more
systemic
account
of
St.
Helena
immigration
to
South
African
between
1838
and
1948.
To
date,
no
such
study
has
been
undertaken,
despite
a
vibrant
oral
tradition
amongst
the
descendants
of
St.
Helena
immigrants
celebrating
their
St.
Helenian
heritage
and
often,
in
peculiar
fashion,
romanticise
their
Island
of
provenance.
The
commencement
date
for
my
chosen
timeframe
emerges
from
a
need
to
authenticate
rather
tenuous
historical
accounts
of
St.
Helena’s
first
mass
emigration
for
the
Cape
of
Good
Hope
in
1838.
Where
cases
of
migration
are
discussed,
these
are
either
incidences
of
large-scale 41,
often
aided,
migration
and
settlement,
or
of
those
St.
Helena
migrant
workers
initially
employed
under
temporary
contacts
to
work
in
South
Africa,
specifically
within
burgeoning
industrial
sectors
of
the
late-nineteenth
or
early-twentieth
century
South
Africa. | en_US |
