New book in Refugee Studies
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New book in Refugee Studies
Searching For Place
Ukrainian Displaced Persons, Canada, and the Migration of Memory
Lubomyr Y. Luciuk
University of Toronto Press 2000
626 pages / 30 b&w illus. / 6x9
Date of Publication: 01/10/00. World Rights
CLOTH0 802042457 $70.00 £45.00
PAPER 080208088X $29.95 £18.00
Canada was not in a welcoming mood when Ukrainian displaced persons
and other refugees began immigrating after the Second World War. In
this compelling and richly documented account, Lubomyr Luciuk maps the
established Ukrainian Canadian community’s efforts to rescue and
resettle refugees, despite public indifference and the hostility of
political opponents in Canada and abroad. He explores the often
divisive impact that this ‘third wave’ of nationalistic refugees had
on organized Ukrainian Canadian society, and traces how this
diaspora’s experiences of persecution under the Soviet and Nazi
regimes in occupied Ukraine, and their subsequent hiving together in
the cauldrons of the postwar DP camps, underlay the shaping of a
shared political worldview that would not abate, despite decades in
exile.
Drawing on personal diaries, in-depth interviews, and previously
unmined government archives, the author provides an interpretation of
the Ukrainian experience in Canada that is both illuminating and
controversial, scholarly and intimate. Luciuk reveals how a distinct
Ukrainian Canadian identity emerged and has been manipulated,
negotiated, and recast from the beginnings of Ukrainian pioneer
settlement at the turn of the last century to the present. Written
with journalistic skill and a clear interpretive vision, Searching for
Place represents a meticulous, original, and provocative contribution
to the study of modern Canada and one of its most important
communities.
Lubomyr Y. Luciuk is a professor in the Department of Politics and
Economics, Royal Military College of Canada.
'Some people come to the New World to forget what they left behind.
Others not only refuse to forget, they actively try to remember their
past and to relive it through their offspring in the hope that they
might remake and perhaps even return to the country they left behind.
Canada is a veritable storehouse of minds filled with memories of
faraway times and places. Professor Luciuk's highly readable book
provides a rich and personalized insight into how, after nearly half a
century and across two generations, the search for a place by
post-World War II Ukrainian displaced persons and their Canadian-born
offspring may have finally come to an end.'
Professor Paul Robert Magocsi, FRSC, Chair of Ukrainian Studies,
University of Toronto
'Searching for Place is a compelling account of the impact on cultural
identity of mass migrations which have been so important and
characteristic a feature of twentieth-century life. The place is
Canada and the searchers are Ukrainians who as exiles are caught up in
the disorienting whirlwind of modern life. Their story, richly and
sensitively told, is of their accommodation to Canada and of Canada’s
acknowledgement of them. This work about Ukrainians becoming Canadians
is about the making of modern Canada.'
Peter G. Goheen, Professor of Geography, Queen’s University.
'This book contains a wealth of well-documented information, often
quite unique, but at the same time the author does not shy away from
his own, often controversial interpretations. What started as a study
of refugee migration ended up as a political history of Canada's
Ukrainians and their search for a place in the changing realities of
the new and indeed the old country. In the process, Professor Lubomyr
Luciuk found his own identity and place which, in his very personal
account, he is happy to bequest to his beloved daughter.'
Professor Leszek A. Kosinski, FRSC, Secretary-General International
Social Science Council, Paris
HIS006000 HISTORY / Canada
HIS032000 HISTORY / Russia (pre- & post-Soviet Union)
SOC007000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
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