Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable: Chilean Exiles in Ontario and Quebec, 1973-2010 Volume 10 Contributor(s): Peddie, Francis (Author), Loewen, Royden (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0887557716 ISBN-13: 9780887557712 Publisher: University of Manitoba Press OUR PRICE: $29.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Canada - Post-confederation (1867-) - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - History | Latin America - Central America |
Dewey: 971 |
Series: Studies in Immigration and Culture |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.65 lbs) 208 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian - Cultural Region - Latin America |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Between 1973 and 1978, six thousand Chileans leftists took refuge in central Canada after the Pinochet coup d' tat. Once resettled at the northern extreme of the Americas, these political exiles had to find ways of coping with an abrupt and violent separation from their homeland that had deep material and emotional repercussions. In Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable, Francis Peddie documents the experiences of twenty-one Chileans as they navigate their newfound identity as exiles. Peddie also considers how the admission of people from the wrong side of the Cold War ideological divide had an effect on Canadian immigration and refugee policy, establishing a precedent for the admission of political exiles over the decades that followed. |
Contributor Bio(s): Peddie, Francis: - Francis Peddie is a historian of Latin America and Canadian immigration originally from Toronto. He teaches at Nagoya University in Japan.Loewen, Royden: - Royden Loewen is the Chair in Mennonite Studies and Professor of History at the University of Winnipeg. He is the editor of the Journal of Mennonite Studies and director of the Mennonite History Graduate Fellowship Program. |