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category: History
published: Oct 2006
ISBN:9781926662688
publisher: Between the Lines

Gatekeepers

Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada

by Franca Iacovetta

tagged: post-confederation (1867-), civics & citizenship
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

Franca Iacovetta is professor emerita of history at the University of Toronto, and a past president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. A historian of women/gender, migration, and transnational radicals, she has published eleven books, including Before Official Multiculturalism: Women’s Pluralism in Toronto, 1950s-1970s and the award-winning books Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada and the co-edited Beyond Women’s Words. She lives in Toronto.

Awards
  • Short-listed, The Canadian Historical Association Francois-Xavier Garneau Medal
  • Winner, The Canadian Historical Association Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize

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