Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War CanadaAn 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 |
Contents
3Defining theAgenda Professional Discourses ofIntegration and Citizenship | |
From Newcomers to Dangerous Foreigners | |
9The Sexual Politics of Survival and Citizenship | |
Guarding the Nations Security | |
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