<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div></div><div><br></div><div>email text:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">The Department of History is pleased to announce its first guest speaker of the term!</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">(co-sponsored by the Centre for German Studies and the Department of Jewish Studies)</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; "><b>"Austrian Immigration to Canada, 1938-1970"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><b>by Dr. Andrea Strutz, University of Graz, Austria</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">location: HH 150</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">time: 2-3:30pm, Friday, 16 September</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div><br></div><div><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Over the course of the 20th<sup> </sup></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">century, migration movements of Austrians to Canada have taken a number of different forms such as forced migration or voluntary (labour) migration. During WWII, Jewish immigration to Canada was restricted, although several hundred </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Austrian and German Jewish refugees (males) were deported from Great Britain and were interned in Eastern Canada; after a year or two, they were released from the camps. Many of these Austrian Jewish refugees decided to stay in Canada to start a new life. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">In the post-WWII period, when Canada opened its labour market widely to European immigrants,<span style="color: black; "> approximately 34,000 non-Jewish Austrian women and men migrated overseas by 1972. </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Furthermore, several hundred Austrian Holocaust survivors resettled in that period (mainly from Great Britain and Israel) </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">to Canadian provinces for economic reasons, marriage or because of family reunion. This talk will explore </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">the </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; ">legal constraints and the practice of post-1945 emigration from Austria to Canada, with special attention given to the individual experiences and the memories of Jewish and non-Jewish Austrian migrants, collected in a series of oral histories.</span></div></div></body></html>