Diaspora Solidarities: Refugees, Human Rights, and the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada, 1936-1967

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dc.contributor.advisorKelly, Philip
dc.creatorChanco, Christopher John Jacobi
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-21T13:43:57Z
dc.date.available2018-11-21T13:43:57Z
dc.date.copyright2018-07-03
dc.date.issued2018-11-21
dc.date.updated2018-11-21T13:43:57Z
dc.degree.disciplineGeography
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractThis transnational history of the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada (JLC) retraces the organisations narratives, networks, and practices of diaspora solidarity, from the moment of its establishment and into the post-war period. The JLCs activists refracted their solidarities through the lens of a diasporic Jewish identity. At a time when Canada imposed strong barriers against refugees, the JLC worked to send aid to the anti-fascist resistance in Europe while participating in a series of immigration schemes to bring Jews from displaced persons camps over to Canada. It was in this unique moment that the JLC could also launch pioneering human rights and anti-racism campaigns within the labour movement. Representing one section of the organised Jewish community in Canada, the JLC proved a critical part of the transformation of the countrys treatment of refugees and minorities in the following decades.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/35500
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectPolitical Science
dc.subject.keywordsRefugees
dc.subject.keywordsImmigration
dc.subject.keywordsHuman rights
dc.subject.keywordsDiasporas
dc.subject.keywordsJewish studies
dc.subject.keywordsPolitical geography
dc.subject.keywordsRefugees and resettlement
dc.subject.keywordsRacism
dc.subject.keywordsOrganized labour
dc.subject.keywordsImmigration policy
dc.subject.keywordsCanada
dc.subject.keywordsCold War
dc.subject.keywordsPostwar history
dc.subject.keywordsGeopolitics
dc.subject.keywordsCanadian history
dc.subject.keywordsInternationalism
dc.subject.keywordsUnions
dc.subject.keywordsEthnic studies
dc.titleDiaspora Solidarities: Refugees, Human Rights, and the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada, 1936-1967
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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