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Western Australia - Organisation
Catholic Episcopal Migration and Welfare Association [CEMWA] (1947 - 1970)
- From
- 1947?
- To
- 1970
- Categories
- Church Agency, Catholic, Receiving Agency
- Alternative Names
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- Catholic Immigration Society
- Episcopal Migration Association
- Location
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The Catholic Episcopal Migration and Welfare Association (CEMWA) in Western Australia was the state-based receiving agency for post-World War II child migrants who were sent to WA under the Catholic child immigration scheme. After 1965, the child migration program to WA ceased and the welfare functions of the CEMWA were taken over by the Catholic Family Welfare Bureau which was established in 1970.
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It its likely that it was a 'branch' of the Federal Catholic Migration Committee which was a sub-committee of the Catholic Bishop's Conference.
Barry Coldrey's book does not make it exactly clear whether the CEMWA was established in 1946, before the Bishops' Conference in 1947, or as a consequence of that.
The CEMWA held the records of children who came to WA under the Catholic child migration scheme and correspondence from a child's family in Britain or Malta usually came to the CEMWA. The Secretary of the CEMWA, Miss Sanderson, also liaised with the institutions and the Child Welfare Department about subsidies paid for the children. In later years, the CEMWA also coordinated the subsidies for children who were Wards and who had been placed in Catholic institutions.
In the early 1990s, the records relating to child migration were located by a social worker and brought into the care of the Catholic Migrant Centre.
Timeline
- 1947 - 1970
- Catholic Episcopal Migration and Welfare Association [CEMWA]
- 1970 - 1977
- Catholic Family Welfare Bureau
- Collection Title
- Catholic Archdiocese of Perth CEMWA and CMC Files [Former Child Migrants], Catholic Archdiocese of Perth (c. 1928 - 2008)
- Date Range
- 1928 - 2008
- Reference
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- Contact
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Please contact the Director of Archives, Archives of the Catholic Archdiocese of Perth:
Street Address: 193 Harold Street, Mt Lawley WA 6050
Postal address: 40A Mary Street, Highgate WA 6003
Phone: (08) 9228 8020
Opening Hours: The Archives are open to the public by appointment from 10 am to 2 pm Monday to Thursday. Appointments can be made by emailing the office.
Email: archives@perthcatholic.org.au
Website: http://www.perthcatholic.org.au/Agencies-Archives_Office.htm
DETAILS
- Series Title
- Indentures (Guardianship) (1947 - 1960)
- Date Range
- 1947 - 1960
- Reference
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S3635
[State Records Office of Western Australia Series Number]
- Contact
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For access to records controlled by the Department of Communities and its predecessors, please contact the Department of Communities Freedom of Information Unit:
Postal Address: Freedom of Information, Department of Communities, Locked Bag 5000, Fremantle WA 6959
Phone: (08) 6414 3344
Email: foi@communities.wa.gov.au
Website :https://www.wa.gov.au/government/document-collections/department-of-communities-freedom-of-information-foi
DETAILS
CEMWA Response to Moss Questionnaire
Minutes of conference of representatives of institutions accommodating migrant children
Moss Report Implementation [Excerpt] - Health Examinations
Moss Report [Excerpt] - Pocket Money
Moss Report Implementation [Excerpt] - Case Histories
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