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Unguarded Border
Donald W. Maxwell
其他書名
American Émigrés in Canada during the Vietnam War
出版Rutgers University Press, 2023-05-12
主題History / GeneralHistory / United States / 20th CenturyHistory / Wars & Conflicts / Vietnam WarPolitical Science / Peace
ISBN19788340479781978834040
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=NhC4EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The United States is accustomed to accepting waves of migrants who are fleeing oppressive conditions and political persecution in their home countries. But in the 1960s and 1970s, the flow of migration reversed as over fifty thousand Americans fled across the border to Canada to resist military service during the Vietnam War or to escape their homeland’s hawkish society.

Unguarded Border tells their stories and, in the process, describes a migrant experience that does not fit the usual paradigms. Rather than treating these American refugees as unwelcome foreigners, Canada embraced them, refusing to extradite draft resisters or military deserters and not even requiring passports for the border crossing. And instead of forming close-knit migrant communities, most of these émigrés sought to integrate themselves within Canadian society.

Historian Donald W. Maxwell explores how these Americans in exile forged cosmopolitan identities, coming to regard themselves as global citizens, a status complicated by the Canadian government’s attempts to claim them and the U.S. government’s eventual efforts to reclaim them. Unguarded Border offers a new perspective on a movement that permanently changed perceptions of compulsory military service, migration, and national identity.