bout de papier, Volume 9, Issue No. 1, 1992
bout de papier, Volume 9, Issue No. 3, 1992
Refugee Law After 9/11
OBIORA CHINEDU OKAFOR, YORK UNIVERSITY’S Inaugural Research Chair in International and Transnational Legal Studies, states that refugee laws and regimes in Canada and the USA “for the most part … reacted in strikingly similar ways to the heightened security vigil triggered by…
Running on Empty
RUNNING ON EMPTY is the most recent addition to the prestigious McGill-Queen’s collection of Studies in (Canadian) Ethnic History. This impressive tome recounts the intriguing story of Canada’s response to the Indochinese refugee crises from 1975 to 1980. Proposed by retired diplomat…
The Czechoslovak Refugee Movement: How Canada met the Challenge
From personal recollections by John Zawisza, Joe Bissett, Maria Beaulne, Joyce Cavanagh-Woods, David Bullock, Mike Molloy, Doug Dunnington, Charles Morrow and Daryl Mesheau recorded in the “Bulletin” of the Canadian Immigration Historical Society, July 2005, and adapted for bout by Gerry Maffre.
How I Became Canadian
My route to Canada was more indirect than others but my experience in leaving Czechoslovakia would parallel that of many who faced the trauma of those days. I suspect my love for the Canada I came to know probably would resonate with…
A Matter of Conscience: Early Warning of Russia’s Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Editor’s Note: Knowing too little is always a handicap, but knowing too much can present its own dilemmas. As Charles Cole graphically recounts in his narrative of the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968, early warning of the Russian-led invasion presented a…
