Miss Rye And Miss Macpherson's Analysis Of Juvenile Immigration In Canada

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In the analysis of Juvenile immigration in Canada, Doyle’s (1875) analysis presents Miss Rye and Miss Macpherson’s account of the poor treatment and lack of authoritative supervision of immigrant children in Canada in the early 1870s. In this manner, the women were only allowed to be agents for the adoption of children into work houses or by farmer family’s that would raise the child in exchange for farm labor: “For the disposal of a large proportion of the girls, both Miss Macpherson and Miss Rye depend upon what they term "adoption." (Doyle, 1875, p.11). This highly exploitative method of using immigrant children as low wage works defines the unregulated system of adoption, which placed certain children in homes that were not being supervised by a government agency or a higher authority. This part of Doyle’s (1875) report exposes the problem of non-supervision of children by the government, which left certain children exposed to abuse, abandonment, and physical harm. However, Doyle (1875) only relies on the Miss Rye and Miss Macpherson as the only witnesses to the abuse that these children endured in this unregulated system of “adoption”. This small sample size in the case study defines the extremely narrow …show more content…

The reception of the Doyle Report provides a more analytical and collective evaluation of the juvenile immigrant problem, which countermand’s Boyle’s allegations in Boardman 's response. In fact, Doyle’s report only interviews two women (Miss Rye and Miss Macpherson) as the basis for making sweeping generalizations about the entire adoption and worker program for juvenile immigrants. The Deputy Minister of Agriculture had, in fact, conducted his own analysis of Doyle’s allegations, which came to find that they were grossly exaggerated by the percentage of children neglected or abused in this

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