From Peasants to Labourers: Ukrainian and Belarusan Immigration from the Russian Empire to CanadaWritten from the migration systems perspective, From Peasants to Labourers places the migration of Ukrainian and Belarusan peasant-workers within the context of Old- and New-World economic structures and state policies. Through painstaking analysis of thousands of personal migrant files in the archives of the Russian consulates in Canada, Kukushkin fills a void in our knowledge of the geographic origins, spatial trajectories, and ethnic composition of early twentieth-century Canadian immigration from Eastern Europe. From Peasants to Labourers also provides important insights into the nature of ethnic identity formation through an exploration of the meaning of "Russianness" in early twentieth-century Canada. |
Contents
The Anatomy of Migration | |
An Airtight Empire? | |
So Close to Being Asiatics | |
Frontiersmen and Urban Dwellers | |
Sojourners and Soldiers | |
Priests Preachers and Immigrants | |
Bolsheviks or Rebels? | |
Statistical Source | |
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