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Book SynopsisBeyond 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.
Trade Review'Well written, grounded in solid research, and innovative in approach and perspective. Students in migration history, women's and gender history, and in history of borders and borderlands would greatly benefit from reading this volume.' -- Yukari Labour/Le Travail vol 77 spring 2016 'This volume opens up important questions not just for the Canadian immigrant context and should be read by immigration scholars of different ethnic groups, periods, and world regions.' -- Stefan Manz Society for German-American Studies, vol 47:2013
Table of ContentsIntroduction Alexander Freund Part I: Approaches: Transculturalism and Gender Local, Continental, Global Migration Contexts: Projecting Life-courses in the Frame of Family Economies and Emotional Networks Dirk Hoerder Gender in German-Canadian Studies: Challenges from Across the Borders Christiane Harzig Part II: 18th and 19th Centuries: Religion, Politics and Culture The Beginnings of the Moravian Mission in Labrador, 1771-1775 Kerstin Boelkow Model Farmers, Dubious Citizens: Reconsidering the Pennsylvania Germans of Upper Canada, 1786-1834 Ross D. Fair Germania in Canada - Nation and Ethnicity at the German Peace Jubilees of 1871 Barbara Lorenzkowski A Weak Woman Standing Alone: Home, Nation and Gender in the Work of German-Canadian Immigration Agent Elise von Koerber, 1872-1884 Angelika E. Sauer Part III: 20th Century: Ethnicity and Nationalism German-Quebecers, "German-Qu b cois", 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 Werner Germans into Europeans: Expellees in Post-war Canada Pascal Maeder Part IV: Literature and Language Language Use and Language Acculturation: German Speakers in Kitchener-Waterloo Grit Liebscher and Mathias Schulze Re-Imagining German-Canadians: Reflections on Past Deconstructions and Literary Evidence Myka Burke
