Invisible immigrants : the English in Canada since 1945 / Marilyn Barber and Murray Watson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barber, Marilyn, author.

Watson, Murray, 1947- author.

Series:

Studies in immigration and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English--Canada--History--20th century.

English.

Immigrants--Canada--History--20th century.

Immigrants.

Oral history--Canada.

Oral history.

History.

Canada.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, 2015.

Summary:

Despite being one of the largest immigrant groups contributing to the development of modern Canada, the story of the English has been all but untold. In Invisible Immigrants, Marilyn Barber and Murray Watson document the experiences of English-born immigrants who chose to come to Canada during England's last major wave of emigration between the 1940s and the 1970s. Engaging life story oral histories reveal the aspirations, adventures, occasional naiveté, and challenges of these hidden immigrants. Postwar English immigrants believed they were moving to a familiar British country. Instead, like other immigrants, they found they had to deal with separation from home and family while adapting to a new country, a new landscape, and a new culture. Although English immigrants did not appear visibly different from their new neighbours, as soon as they spoke they were immediately identified as "foreign." Invisible Immigrants reveals the personal nature of the migration experience and how socio-economic structures, gender expectations, and marital status shaped possibilities and responses in postwar North America. These stories contribute to our understanding of postwar immigration and fill a significant gap in the history of English migration to Canada. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Migration and Society in the Postwar Years 10

Chapter 2 Why Emigrate? Why Canada? 40

Chapter 3 Crossing the Atlantic 76

Chapter 4 Adaptation 97

Chapter 5 Earning a Living 134

Chapter 6 Home, Family, Community 168

Chapter 7 National Identity 218.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Barber, Marilyn, author. Invisible immigrants.

ISBN:

9780887557774

0887557775

OCLC:

895302145