Migration, immigration and emigration

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Who Gets In

An eye-opening account of the Jewish immigration experience in the 1930s, and one man’s battle against anti-Semitic immigration policies.
 
In 1930, a young Jewish man, Yehuda Yosef Eisenstein, arrived ...

Mille après mille

La chanteuse Mary Travers (La Bolduc), le crooner Rudy Vallée et le directeur de troupes Jean Grimaldi sont de véritables célébrités à leur époque. Outre leur renommée, ils ont en commun de profiter ...

Minarets on the Horizon

This book gives us a detailed look at the Muslim presence in Canada, starting with the pioneer settlers from Syria/Lebanon and the Balkans in the early twentieth century and moving on to the more modern ...

Pier 21

Between 1928 and 1971, nearly one million immigrants landed in Canada at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During those years, it was one of the main ocean immigration facilities in Canada, including when ...

La liste de Winslow expliquée

Que nous apprend de nouveau cette lecture de la fameuse liste que le lieutenant-colonel John Winslow a transcrite dans son Journal à l’automne de 1755 ? Paul Delaney démontre clairement dans cet essai ...

Un-Canadian

By (author) Graeme Truelove
Foreword by Ihsaan Gardee
Categories: Civics and citizenship

Un-Canadian: Islamophobia in the True North is a provocative warning to Canadians that the values they cherish are being eroded through a disturbing pattern of political, legal, and social prejudice against ...

Angry Queer Somali Boy

Interwoven with sociopolitical commentary on Somalia, Europe, and Canada, the story of this gay Muslim immigrant is told in a refreshing new voice.
Kidnapped by his father on the eve of Somalia’s societal ...

Shifting the Liberal Human Rights Regime

This timely book argues that the way that states frame migration rights is increasingly falling out of step with modern realities. With the number of environmentally displaced people set to rise dramatically, ...

Les Maghrébins de Montréal

Quelle est la place des groupes venus d’ailleurs dans la société québécoise ? Quels liens tissent-ils avec leur nouveau pays ? Comment les deuxièmes générations d’immigrants, notamment maghrébins, ...

Se dire arabe au Canada

Si les « Arabes » sont aujourd’hui l’objet d’une grande attention, aussi bien des médias, des États que des recherches sociologiques, leur histoire reste cependant peu connue. Ce livre fait ...