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Book SynopsisIn Immigrants in Prairie Cities, Royden Loewen and Gerald Friesen analyze the processes of cultural interaction and adaptation that unfolded in these urban centres and describe how this model of diversity has changed over time.
Trade Review'Loewen and Friesen have made an original contribution to understanding the immigrant experience and laid the ground work for further studies. Scholars of immigration and ethnicity elsewhere will find this book valuable for comparative purposes and it will contribute to better understandings of multiculturalism.' -- Patricia E. Roy, American Historical Review: February 2011 'An excellent reflection on a regional expression of Canadian multiculturalism... academic prose at its best. ' -- David G. Burley; H-TGS (Transnational German Studies), 28 November, 2011 'Immigrants in Prairie Cities provides a state-of-the-art approach to the writing of both immigration and social history... A truly fine piece of work that will become required reading for all serious students, not just of Western Canadian, but of Canadian social history.' -- Jim Mochoruk Histoire Sociale/ Social History, vol 44:87:2011 'Loewen and Friesen are to be congratulated for offering a new image of the Prairies... This is a provocative book that should elicit the kind of "compelling...dialogue" that they argue has shaped the multicultural prairie city.' -- Marlene Epp International Journal of Migration and Integration; vol 13:03:2012
