| American Refugees: Turning to Canada for Freedom Contributor(s): Deverell, Rita Shelton (Author) |
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ISBN: 0889776253 ISBN-13: 9780889776258 Publisher: University of Regina Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - History | Canada - General |
| Dewey: 325.273 |
| Series: Regina Collection |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 4.4" W x 5.7" (0.60 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The hopeful promise of a life in Canada and why Americans feel the urge to escape there When it became clear that Donald Trump would become the new US president on election night in 2016, the website for Citizenship and Immigration Canada crashed. It was overwhelmed by Americans afraid that the United States would once again enter a period of intolerance and military aggression. In American Refugees, Rita Deverell shows that from the Revolutionary War to the Underground Railroad through to McCarthyism and Vietnam, Americans have fled to Canada in times of crisis. Many still flee. All have sought better lives, while helping to shape Canada into the country it is today. |
Contributor Bio(s): Deverell, Rita Shelton: - The founder and co-editor of From the Root Zine, Whitney French has been published in Descant Magazine, anthologized in The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry, and is the host and facilitator of the Writing While Black creative writing studio. Whitney lives in Toronto. |