Title From peasants to labourers : Ukrainian and Belarusan immigration from the Russian Empire to Canada / Vadim Kukushkin

Published Montreal ; Ithaca, NY : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 283, [4] pages of plates) : illustrations, maps Series McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two ; 23 McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two ; 23 Summary "Canadian immigration from the Russian Empire is often portrayed as consisting entirely of non Slavic minorities and religious refugees. Vadim Kukushkin shows that a large number of immigrants were peasants from Russia's Ukrainian and Belarusan provinces attracted by wage-earning opportunities in Canada, unlike their neighbours from Austrian-ruled Ukraine who searched for land." "Written from the migration systems perspective, From Peasants to Labourers places the migration of Ukrainian and Belarusan peasant-workers within the context of Old and New World economic structures and state policies. Through painstaking analysis of thousands of personal migrant files in the archives of the Russian consulates in Canada, Kukushkin fills a void in our knowledge of the geographic origins, spatial trajectories, and ethnic composition of early twentieth-century Canadian immigrants from Eastern Europe. From Peasants to Labourers also provides important insights into the nature of ethnic identity formation through an exploration of the meaning of "Russianness" in early twentieth-century Canada."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-273) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Belarusians -- Canada -- History -- 20th century Ukrainians -- Canada -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Belarusians Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects Ukrainians SUBJECT Russia, Western -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th century Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th century Subject Canada Western Russia Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773560468 0773560467 1282850407 9781282850408 9786612850400 661285040X 0773577602 9780773577602

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