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Loading... Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canadaby Franca Iacovetta
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An in-depth study of European immigrants to Canada during the Cold War, Gatekeepers explores the interactions among these immigrants and the "gatekeepers"-mostly middle-class individuals and institutions whose definitions of citizenship significantly shaped the immigrant experience. Iacovetta's deft discussion examines how dominant bourgeois gender and Cold War ideologies of the day shaped attitudes towards new Canadians. She shows how the newcomers themselves were significant actors who influenced Canadian culture and society, even as their own behaviour was being modified. Generously illustrated, Gatekeepers explores a side of Cold War history that has been left largely untapped. It offers a long overdue Canadian perspective on one of the defining eras of the last century. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)305.9Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people People by occupation and miscellaneous social statusesLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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