
Immigration and Integration in North America: Canadian and Austrian Perspectives
Immigration und Integration in Nordamerika: Kanadische und österreichische Perspektiven
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Immigration and Integration in North America: Canadian and Austrian Perspectives
Immigration und Integration in Nordamerika: Kanadische und österreichische Perspektiven
About this book
Der deutsch- und englischsprachige Band enthĂ€lt neun Essays von bekannten KanadistInnen aus Ăsterreich, Deutschland und Kanada, die sich mit Immigration nach und Integration in Nordamerika beschĂ€ftigen: Wie wird dieses aktuelle Problem in Kanada bewĂ€ltigt? Könnte das offiziell multikulturelle Kanada fĂŒr LĂ€nder wie Ăsterreich und Frankreich ein Muster sein?Neben der gelungenen Integration, die sich in Romanen von selbst nach Kanada eingewanderten ErzĂ€hlerInnen spiegelt, belegen ethnische Autobiographien die frĂŒher auch in Kanada hĂ€ufigen Probleme. Das SpannungsverhĂ€ltnis beim transkulturellen Ăbergang erscheint als mögliche Inspirationsquelle, wobei Schriftsteller aus der Karibik ergiebige Untersuchungsobjekte sind. Die Einwanderung aus Ăsterreich kommt ebenso zur Sprache wie die spezifische Auseinandersetzung mit der Immigration in Quebec, wo das Konzept des Interkulturalismus dominiert, sowie das Schicksal von Millionen illegaler Einwanderer in den USA.The volume comprises nine essays by prominent Canadianists from Austria, Germany and Canada who investigate in comparative fashion the problems of emigration / immigration to and integration in North America and some European countries, especially Austria and France. They inquire how this challenge has been met in Canada since the official adoption of multiculturalism and reflect on the possibility of Canada serving as a model for Europe. While contemporary novels by immigrants to Canada provide evidence of successful integration, ethnic autobiographies remind us of the existence of problems and prejudices in former times. The tensions experienced in the course of a transcultural transfer are shown to be a potential source of inspiration, with authors of Caribbean background providing fruitful examples. The waves of immigration from Austria are also described as is the specific approach to the challenge of immigration in the province of Quebec, through the adoption of the concept of interculturalism. Both the problems linked to immigration in France and the issue of the millions of undocumented immigrants from Latin America in the USA are considered.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Body
- Acknowledgements
- Waldemar Zacharasiewicz and Fritz Peter Kirsch: Preface
- David Staines: Canada in the World: Literature at the Crossroads
- Waldemar Zacharasiewicz: Challenges for Immigrants in Canadian Autobiographies
- Martin Löschnigg: `Translated' Persons: Rendering Migrant Identities in Anglo-Canadian Literature
- Carmen Birkle: âAlways becoming, will never beâ: Caribbean (Im)âMigration to Canada
- Ursula Mathis-Moser: Dany LaferriĂšre als âkritischer Immigrant` in MontrĂ©al
- Andrea Strutz: Labour, Land and Refuge: Austrian Immigration to Canada in the late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- Waldemar Zacharasiewicz: Migration and Literature â Migrating Across the Oceans: Challenges of Settlement in the USA and Canada
- Dirk Hoerder: Autobiographische Reflexionen von Migranten im gesellschaftlichen Rahmen: Kanada und Frankreich seit den 1970er Jahren
- Fritz Peter Kirsch: Immigration und Integration in Quebec: Ein österreichischer Kommentar zum Taylor-Bouchard-Bericht
- List of Contributors