Nineteenth-century Ireland saw the emergence of a campaign to have orphaned and abandoned children ‘boarded out’ from workhouses to live with families in return for payment. Despite growing anxiety about the unsuitability of workhouses for children, communities could show resistance to having these children, particularly those from urban workhouses, living in their own neighbourhood. Using the case of alleged abuse towards three children boarded out from Belfast workhouse to a family living in a remote rural townland, this paper explores the experience of, and attitudes towards, workhouse children boarded into rural communities. Using testimonies of neighbours and poor law officials at the resultant 1872 Poor Law inquiry, it examines the relationship between the children, their foster family, and the wider community and reveals the extent to which those families who took in workhouse children became subject to surveillance not just from welfare authorities but also from members of their community.

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19 世纪的 Nimbys，或者邻居看到了什么？贫困、监视和 19 世纪晚期贝尔法斯特贫困儿童的寄宿

19 世纪的爱尔兰出现了一场运动，让孤儿和被遗弃的儿童从济贫院“寄宿”与家人住在一起，以换取报酬。尽管人们越来越担心济贫院不适合儿童居住，但社区可能会抵制让这些孩子，尤其是来自城市济贫院的孩子住在自己的社区。本文以三名从贝尔法斯特济贫院寄宿到居住在偏远乡镇的家庭的儿童涉嫌虐待的案例，探讨了寄宿到农村社区的济贫院儿童的经历和态度。在由此产生的 1872 年济贫法调查中，使用邻居和贫困法律官员的证词，它检查了孩子、他们的寄养家庭、