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Before We Disappear Into Oblivion - San Francisco’S Russian Diaspora From Revolution To Cold War

by Nina Bogdan

~~37,09€~~ 33,38€ 10% OFF

 The October 1917 Russian Revolution and the subsequent Civil War triggered a mass exodus from Russia to the American west coast. Before We Disappear into Oblivion examines the efforts of newly arrived Russians in San Francisco as they built communities and negotiated their acculturation into American society.
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From Righteousness To Far Right - An Anthropological Rethinking Of Critical Security Studies

by Emma Mc Cluskey

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 An innovative ethnography of refugee resettlement in Sweden.
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Strategic Friends - Canada-Ukraine Relations From Independence To The Euromaidan

by Bohdan S. Kordan

31,79€ + 10% CARD

 The continuity and change in Canada's relationship with Ukraine since the breakup of the Soviet Union.
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Mad Flight? - The Quebec Emigration To The Coffee Plantations Of Brazil

by John Zucchi

31,79€ + 10% CARD

 How migrants from Quebec ended up stranded on SÃ£o Pauloâ€™s coffee plantations in the 1890s.
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Land Of Dreams - Ethnicity, Nationalism, And The Irish In Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, And Maine, 1880-1923

by Patrick Mannion

43,73€ + 10% CARD

 A comparative history of Irish community and identity in St Johnâ€™s, Halifax, and Portland.
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Witness To Loss - Race, Culpability, And Memory In The Dispossession Of Japanese Canadians

31,79€ + 10% CARD

 A Japanese Canadian participated in the government's destruction of his own community. How should he be remembered?
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Running On Empty - Canada And The Indochinese Refugees, 1975-1980

by Kurt F. Jensen, Michael J. Molloy, Peter Duschinsky e Robert J. Shalka

43,73€ + 10% CARD

 A powerful history of how Canada rescued 70,000 Indochinese refugees between 1975 and 1980.
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Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing - An Historical And Ethnographic Perspective

by John G. Gibson

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 The step-dancing of the Scotch Gaels in Nova Scotia is the last living example of a form of dance that waned following the great emigrations to Canada that ended in 1845. The Scotch Gael has been reported as loving dance, but step-dancing in Scotland had all but disappeared by 1945. One must look to Gaelic Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and Antigonish County, to find this tradition. Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing, the first study of its kind, gives this art form and the people and culture associated with it the prominence they have long deserved. Gaelic Scotland's cultural record is by and large pre-literate, and references to dance have had to be sought in Gaelic songs, many of which were transcribed on paper by those who knew their culture might be lost with the decline of their language. The improved Scottish culture depended proudly on the teaching of dancing and the literate learning and transmission of music in accompaniment. Relying on fieldwork in Nova Scotia, and on mentions of dance in Gaelic song and verse in Scotland and Nova Scotia, John Gibson traces the historical roots of step-dancing, particularly the older forms of dancing originating in the Gaelic-speaking Scottish Highlands. He also places the current tradition as a development and part of the much larger British and European percussive dance tradition. With insight collected through written sources, tales, songs, manuscripts, book references, interviews, and conversations, Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing brings an important aspect of Gaelic history to the forefront of cultural debate.
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Twenty-First-Century Immigration To North America - Newcomers In Turbulent Times

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 A revealing assessment of the policies, practices, and impact of immigration to Canada and the United States.
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Boundaries Of Ethnicity - German Immigration And The Language Of Belonging In Ontario

by Benjamin Bryce

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 In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, European settlers from diverse backgrounds transformed Ontario. By 1881, German speakers made up almost ten per cent of the province’s population and the German language was spoken in businesses, public schools, churches, and homes. German speakers in Ontario - children, parents, teachers, and religious groups - used their everyday practices and community institutions to claim a space for bilingualism and religious diversity within Canadian society. In The Boundaries of Ethnicity Benjamin Bryce considers what it meant to be German in Ontario between 1880 and 1930. He explores how the children of immigrants acquired and negotiated the German language and how religious communities relied on language to reinforce social networks. For the Germans who make up the core of this study, the distinction between insiders and outsiders was often unclear. Boundaries were crossed as often as they were respected. German ethnicity in this period was fluid, and increasingly interventionist government policies and the dynamics of generational change also shaped the boundaries of ethnicity. German speakers, together with immigrants from other countries and Canadians of different ethnic backgrounds, created a framework that defined relationships between the state, the public sphere, ethnic spaces, family, and religion in Canada that would persist through the twentieth century. The Boundaries of Ethnicity uncovers some of the origins of Canadian multiculturalism and government attempts to manage this diversity.
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Peronism As A Big Tent - The Political Inclusion Of Arab Immigrants In Argentina

by Ariel Noyjovich e Raanan Rein

58,29€ + 10% CARD

 Argentinaâ€™s populist government, led by Juan PerÃ³n, challenged the traditional model of the melting pot and granted legitimacy to hybrid identities. Peronism as a Big Tent examines Peronismâ€™s efforts to garner the support of Argentines of Middle Eastern origins, be they Jewish, Maronite, Orthodox Catholic, Druze, or Muslim.
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Least Possible Fuss And Publicity - The Politics Of Immigration In Postwar Canada, 1945-1967

by Paul A. Evans

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 Over the two decades following the Second World War, the policy that would create "a nation of immigrants," as Canadian multiculturalism is now widely understood, was debated, drafted, and implemented. The established narrative of postwar immigration policy as a tepid mixture of altruism and national self-interest does not fully explain the complex process of policy transformation during that period. In The Least Possible Fuss and Publicity Paul Evans recounts changes to Canada''s postwar immigration policy and the events, ideas, and individuals that propelled that change. Through extensive primary research in the archives of federal departments and the parliamentary record, together with contemporary media coverage, the correspondence of politicians and policy-makers, and the statutes that set immigration policy, Evans reconstructs the formation of a modern immigration bureaucracy, the resistance to reform from within, and the influence of racism and international events. He shows that political concerns remained uppermost in the minds of policy-makers, and those concerns - more than economic or social factors - provided the major impetus to change. In stark contrast to today, legislators and politicians strove to keep the evolution of the national immigration strategy out of the public eye: University of Toronto law professor W.G. Friedmann remarked in a 1952 edition of Saturday Night, "In Canada, both the government and the people have so far preferred to let this immigration business develop with the least possible fuss and publicity." This is the story, told largely in their own words, of politicians and policy-makers who resisted change and others who saw the future and seized upon it. The Least Possible Fuss and Publicity is a clear account of how postwar immigration policy transformed, gradually opening the border to groups who sought to make Canada home.
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With Your Words In My Hands - The Letters Of Antonietta Petris And Loris Palma

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 Following Antonietta and Loris''s first kiss in the shadows of the Italian Alps barely a year after the end of the Second World War, the couple was divided by a distance far greater than could ever have been imagined. With Antonietta''s family moving to Montreal, migration entered the couple''s intimate worlds, stretching the distance between them from the two hundred kilometres separating Ampezzo and Venice to the ocean between Montreal and Venice. Throughout their transatlantic separation, the young lovers fervidly wrote each other until they were reunited in Canada in 1949. With Your Words in My Hands tells a story about love and migration as written and read, idealized and imagined, through daily correspondence. Sonia Cancian recovers a rare complete epistolary record of an immigrant experience defined by love and sustained in writing, translating the letters with deftness and an ear for the immediacy of emotion and longing they embody. Cancian gives context to these exchanges dating from the beginning of the largest migration movement from Italy to Canada, showing how love, frustration, fear, sadness, and empathy were palpable elements that inflected the quotidian - bureaucratic processes, employment, family life - and defined immigrant experience. For the countless couples whose love is fragmented by separation but woven together with envelopes and stamps, or onscreen in today''s instant messaging, these letters remind us how the experience of distance and proximity, absence and presence, can be reconfigured within the world of intimate correspondence.
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Invisible Community - Being South Asian In Quebec

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 The Invisible Community shares lived experiences of different subgroups of the South Asian population in Quebec in order to better understand wider social, political, and educational contexts of immigration in Canada.
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North American Gaels - Speech, Story, And Song In The Diaspora

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 A groundbreaking exploration of the literature and folklore of North America's Irish and Scottish Gaelic-speaking diaspora since the eighteenth century. North American Gaels shines new light on the ways Irish and Scottish Gaels have left an enduring mark through speech, story, and song.
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Between Dispersion And Belonging - Global Approaches To Diaspora In Practice

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 Revisiting diaspora theory with illuminating global case studies.
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Creating Kashubia - History, Memory, And Identity In Canada''S First Polish Community

by Joshua C. Blank

37,09€ + 10% CARD

 A groundbreaking work that looks at the changing ways in which Canada's first Polish community views itself.
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Unpacking The Kists - The Scots In New Zealand

by Brad Patterson, Jim Mcaloon e Tom Brooking

99,36€ + 10% CARD

 An analysis of the scale and impact of Scottish migration to Britain's most distant nineteenth-century colony.
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Between Raid And Rebellion - The Irish In Buffalo And Toronto, 1867-1916

by William Jenkins

43,73€ + 10% CARD

 A comparative study of Irish communities in a Canadian and an American city.
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Growing Up Canadian - Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists

by Peter Beyer e Rubina Ramji

37,09€ + 10% CARD

 A significant number of Canadian-raised children from post-1970s immigrant families have reached adulthood over the past decade. As a result, the demographics of religious affiliation are changing across Canada. Growing Up Canadian is the first comparative study of religion among young adults of Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist immigrant families. Contributors consider how relating to religion varies significantly depending on which faith is in question, how men and women have different views on the role of religion in their lives, and how the possibilities of being religiously different are greater in larger urban centres than in surrounding rural communities. Interviews with over two hundred individuals, aged 18 to 26, reveal that few are drawn to militant, politicized religious extremes, how almost all second generation young adults take personal responsibility for their religion, and want to understand the reasons for their beliefs and practices. The first major study of religion among this generation in Canada, Growing Up Canadian is an important contribution to understanding religious diversity and multiculturalism in the twenty-first century. Contributors include Peter Beyer, Kathryn Carrière, Wendy Martin, and Lori Beaman (University of Ottawa), Rubina Ramji (Cape Breton University), Nancy Nason-Clark and Cathy Holtmann (University of New Brunswick), Shandip Saha (Athabasca University), John H. Simpson (University of Toronto), and Marie-Paule Martel-Reny (Concordia University)
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Kingdom Of The Mind - How The Scots Helped Make Canada

by Heather Mcnabb e Peter E. Rider

30,46€ + 10% CARD

 Presents a selection of historical essays, demonstrating the early influence of the Scots in shaping Canada's national identity. This book is of interest to those who ask, "What is a Canadian?"
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Alice In Shandehland - Scandal And Scorn In The Edelson/Horwitz Murder Case

by Monda Halpern

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 Why a Jewish jeweller who shot and killed his wife's lover was acquitted after his sensational 1932 murder trial.
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Building Nations From Diversity - Canadian And American Experience Compared

by Garth Stevenson

34,44€ + 10% CARD

 A detailed look at ethnic diversity, immigration, and multiculturalism in the US and Canada.
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Hurrah Revolutionaries - The Polish Canadian Communist Movement, 1918-1948

by Patryk Polec

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 An in-depth analysis of the history, culture, and politics of Polish Canadian radicals and Communists.
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