By the early twentieth century, child migration had entered a socialist/imperialist phase. A key feature of the child migration schemes was to populate the Empire’s dominions (Canada, Rhodesia, New Zealand and Australia) with white British people. In 1913, the Child Emigration Society, now known as the Fairbridge Society set up the first farm school at Pinjarra, Western Australia. The Society’s namesake, Kingsley Fairbridge, a Rhodesian scholar was an influential figure in facilitating British child migration to overseas farm schools. Shocked at the conditions of which thousands of institutionalised children in England who faced lives of ill-repute and crime, Fairbridge sought to move the children into the wide open spaces’ in the colonies”.