ISBN:
9780887555725
,
9780887555701
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 307 pages)
,
illustrations
Series Statement:
Studies in immigration and culture 15
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.89/189607109045
Keywords:
Czechoslovaks History 20th century
;
Refugees History 20th century
;
Refugees History 20th century
;
Czechs History 20th century
;
Czechs
;
Refugees
;
Czechoslovaks
;
Czechoslovakia
;
Canada
;
History
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Chapter 1: Interwar Farm Labourers, Wartime Enemy Aliens, and Allied Citizens -- Chapter 2: Postwar Relief, Canadian Citizenship, and Ethnic Heritage -- Chapter 3: Aftermath of the Communist Takeover: Canada and the 1948ers -- Chapter 4: Community Tensions and Ideological Divisions -- Chapter 5: Warsaw Pact Invasion: Canada and the 1968ers -- Chapter 6: Opposing the Communist Regime -- Chapter 7: Creating Ethnocultural Heritage -- Conclusion.
Abstract:
Explores how Cold War Czechoslovakian migrants to Canada joined or formed ethnocultural organisations to help in their attempts to affect developments in Czechoslovakia and Canadian foreign policy towards their homeland
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-298) and index
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