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- catalog abstract ""More than 50,000 draft-age American men and women migrated to Canada during the Vietnam War, the largest political exodus from the United States since the American Revolution. How are we to understand this migration three decades later? Was their action simply a marginal, highly individualized spin-off of the American antiwar movement, or did it have its own lasting collective meaning?" "John Hagan, himself a member of the exodus, searched declassified government files, consulted previously unopened resistance organization archives and contemporary oral histories, and interviewed American war resisters settled in Toronto to learn how they made the momentous decision. Canadian immigration officials at first blocked the entry of some resisters; then, under pressure from Canadian church and civil liberties groups, they fully opened the border, providing these Americans with the legal opportunity to oppose the Vietnam draft and military mobilization while beginning new lives in Canada. It was a turning point for Canada as well, an assertion of sovereignty in its post - World War II relationship with the United States."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11976361.
- catalog coverage "Canada Emigration and immigration.".
- catalog coverage "United States Emigration and immigration.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""More than 50,000 draft-age American men and women migrated to Canada during the Vietnam War, the largest political exodus from the United States since the American Revolution. How are we to understand this migration three decades later? Was their action simply a marginal, highly individualized spin-off of the American antiwar movement, or did it have its own lasting collective meaning?" "John Hagan, himself a member of the exodus, searched declassified government files, consulted previously unopened resistance organization archives and contemporary oral histories, and interviewed American war resisters settled in Toronto to learn how they made the momentous decision. Canadian immigration officials at first blocked the entry of some resisters; then, under pressure from Canadian church and civil liberties groups, they fully opened the border, providing these Americans with the legal opportunity to oppose the Vietnam draft and military mobilization while beginning new lives in Canada. It was a turning point for Canada as well, an assertion of sovereignty in its post - World War II relationship with the United States."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-263) and index.".
- catalog description "Preface: First Snow -- Laws of Resistance -- Opening the Gates -- Toronto's American Ghetto -- Activism by Exile -- Two Amnesties and a Jailing -- Choosing Canada.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 269 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Northern passage.".
- catalog identifier "067400471X".
- catalog isFormatOf "Northern passage.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Northern passage.".
- catalog spatial "Canada Emigration and immigration.".
- catalog spatial "Canada.".
- catalog spatial "United States Emigration and immigration.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "959.707/704/38".
- catalog subject "Americans Canada.".
- catalog subject "Amnesty United States.".
- catalog subject "DS559.8.D7 H33 2001".
- catalog subject "Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Desertions United States.".
- catalog subject "Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Draft resisters United States.".
- catalog subject "Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Protest movements United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface: First Snow -- Laws of Resistance -- Opening the Gates -- Toronto's American Ghetto -- Activism by Exile -- Two Amnesties and a Jailing -- Choosing Canada.".
- catalog title "Northern passage : American Vietnam War resisters in Canada / John Hagan.".
- catalog type "text".