Freund Beyond the Nation?

Immigrants' Local Lives in Transnational Cultures
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4426-9486-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Beyond the Nation? outlines how German-Canadians invented ethnicity under Canadian expectations, and provides moving case studies of how notable immigrant groups integrated into Canadian society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Freund, Alexander

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Alexander FreundPart I: Approaches: Transculturalism and GenderLocal, Continental, Global Migration Contexts: Projecting Life-courses in the Frame of Family Economies and Emotional Networks
Dirk HoerderGender in German-Canadian Studies: Challenges from Across the Borders
Christiane HarzigPart II: 18th and 19th Centuries: Religion, Politics and CultureThe Beginnings of the Moravian Mission in Labrador, 1771-1775
Kerstin BoelkowModel Farmers, Dubious Citizens: Reconsidering the Pennsylvania Germans of Upper Canada, 1786-1834
Ross D. FairGermania in Canada – Nation and Ethnicity at the German Peace Jubilees of 1871
Barbara LorenzkowskiA Weak Woman Standing Alone: Home, Nation and Gender in the Work of German-Canadian Immigration Agent Elise von Koerber, 1872-1884
Angelika E. SauerPart III: 20th Century: Ethnicity and NationalismGerman-Quebecers, "German-Québécois", German-Canadians? The Double Integration of People of German Descent in Quebec
Manuel Meune'What Church do you go to?' The Difficult Acculturation of German-Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1933-2004
Patrick Farges'German Only in Their Hearts:' Making and Breaking the Ethnic German Diaspora in the 20th Century
Hans WernerGermans into Europeans: Expellees in Post-war Canada
Pascal MaederPart IV: Literature and LanguageLanguage Use and Language Acculturation: German Speakers in Kitchener-Waterloo
Grit Liebscher and Mathias SchulzeRe-Imagining German-Canadians: Reflections on Past Deconstructions and Literary Evidence
Myka Burke

Über Autor(innen)

FreundAlexander:

Alexander Freund is an associate professor in the Department of History and the Chair in German-Canadian Studies at the University of Winnipeg.