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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780535403321

Autore

Luciuk Lubomyr Y.

Titolo

Searching for place : Ukrainian displaced persons, Canada, and the migration of memory / / Lubomyr Y. Luciuk ; with a foreword by Norman Davies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001

©2000

ISBN

1-4426-7967-0

1-282-02593-7

9786612025938

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (627 p.)

Disciplina

971/.00491791

Soggetti

Ukrainians - Canada - History - 20th century

Refugees - Ukraine - History - 20th century

Refugees - Government policy - Canada

Livres numeriques.

History

e-books.

Electronic books.

Ukraine

Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""1 The Plan""; ""2 'From a Police Point of View': The Origins of the Ukrainian Canadian Community, 1891�1920""; ""3 'The Man Who Knew': Organizing the Ukrainian Canadian Community, from the 1920s to the 1940s""; ""4 'Saskatchewan's Son': Ukrainian Canadian Soldiers Encounter the Displaced Persons, 1941�1945""; ""5 'A Subject Which We Cannot Ignore': Unexpected Problems with Ukrainian Canadian Relief Operations, 1945�1946""



""6 'The Least Inspiring of Postwar Problems': The Anglo-American Powers, Ukrainian Independence, and the Refugees""""7 'Ironing Out the Differences': Changing Ukrainian Canadian Attitudes towards the DPs, 1946�1950""; ""8 'Locking Horns on Canadian Soil': The Impact of the DPs on Ukrainian Canadian Society, 1949�1959""; ""9 'The Vexed Ukrainian Question': Curbing Ukrainian Nationalism in the Postwar World""; ""10 'A Good Canadian': The View from Ottawa""; ""EPILOGUE""; ""NOTES""; ""SOURCES""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""

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Sommario/riassunto

"Canada was not in a welcoming mood when Ukrainian Displaced Persons and other refugees began immigrating after the Second World War. In this documented account, Lubomyr Y. Luciuk maps the established Ukrainian Canadian community's efforts to rescue and resettle refugees, despite public indifference and the hostility of political opponents in Canada and abroad. He explores the often divisive impact that this 'third wave' of nationalistic refugees had on organized Ukrainian Canadian society, and traces how this diaspora's experiences of persecution under the Soviet and Nazi regimes in occupied Ukraine, and their subsequent hiving together in the cauldrons of the postwar DP camps, underlay the shaping of a shared political world-view that would not abate, despite decades in exile. Drawing on personal diaries, in-depth interviews, and previously unmined government archives, the author provides an interpretation of the Ukrainian experience in Canada that is both illuminating and controversial, scholarly and intimate. Luciuk reveals how a distinct Ukrainian Canadian identity emerged and has been manipulated, negotiated, and recast from the beginnings of Ukrainian pioneer settlement at the turn of the last century to the present. Searching for Place represents a provocative contribution to the study of modern Canada and one of its most important communities."--Jacket.