History Post-confederation (1867-)
Gatekeepers
Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada
- Publisher
- Between the Lines
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2006
- Category
- Post-Confederation (1867-), Civics & Citizenship, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897071113
- Publish Date
- Oct 2006
- List Price
- $34.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781926662688
- Publish Date
- Oct 2006
- List Price
- $23.95
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Description
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.
About the author
Franca Iacovetta is a professor of history at the University of Toronto. A feminist, labour, gender, and migration historian, she is the author of several books on Canadian social history.
Other titles by Franca Iacovetta
Before Official Multiculturalism
Women's Pluralism in Toronto, 1950s-1970s
Before Official Multiculturalism
Women's Pluralism in Toronto, 1950s-1970s
A Nation of Immigrants
Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s
Sisters or Strangers?
Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History, Second Edition
Edible Histories, Cultural Politics
Towards a Canadian Food History
Gatekeepers
Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada
Sisters or Strangers?
Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History, Second Edition
Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives
Italian Workers of the World
Gender Conflicts
New Essays in Women's History
Enemies Within
Italian and Other Internees in Canada and Abroad
