Talk next Friday, 16 Sept

[Donna Lang]

The Department of History

is pleased to announce their first guest speaker of the term!

 

(co-sponsored by the Centre for German Studies and the Department of Jewish
Studies)

 

 

Austrian Immigration, 

to Canada, 1938-1970

 

by Dr. Andrea Strutz, 

University of Graz, Austria

 

 

Location: Hagey Hall 150

Time: 2-3:30pm, Friday, 16 September

 

 

 

Over the course of the 20th 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 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. In the post-WWII period, when Canada opened its labour market widely
to European immigrants, approximately 34,000 non-Jewish Austrian women and
men migrated overseas by 1972. Furthermore, several hundred Austrian
Holocaust survivors resettled in that period (mainly from Great Britain and
Israel) to Canadian provinces for economic reasons, marriage or because of
family reunion. This talk will explore the 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 both
Jewish and non-Jewish Austrian migrants, collected in a series of oral
histories.

 

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