Unguarded border : American émigrés in Canada during the Vietnam War /
"Unguarded Border: American Émigrés in Canada during the Vietnam War examines one of the largest exoduses from the United States, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when over 50,000 Americans immigrated to Canada during the Vietnam War. For many this emigration was the best way for them to resi...
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | War culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Escaping over the border : the Americans who went to Canada
- The welcome mat is spread all along the border : how Americans found their way to Canada
- Religion and politics at the border : Canadian church support for American Vietnam War resisters
- "Knowledge has no national character" : Americans in Canadian universities and the movement of ideas over the U.S.-Canada border
- "These are the things you gain if you make our country your country" : defining citizenship along the U.S.-Canada border in the 1970s
- American Vietnam War-era émigrés and the blurring of borders.