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Despite being one of the largest immigrant groups contributing to
the development of modern Canada, the story of the English has been
all but untold. In Invisible Immigrants, Barber and Watson document
the experiences of English-born immigrants who chose to come to
Canada during England's last major wave of emigration between the
1940s and the 1970s. Engaging life story oral histories reveal the
aspirations, adventures, occasional naivete, and challenges of
these hidden immigrants. Postwar English immigrants believed they
were moving to a familiar British country. Instead, like other
immigrants, they found they had to deal with separation from home
and family while adapting to a new country, a new landscape, and a
new culture. Although English immigrants did not appear visibly
different from their new neighbours, as soon as they spoke, they
were immediately identified as "foreign" Barber and Watson reveal
the personal nature of the migration experience and how
socio-economic structures, gender expectations, and marital status
shaped possibilities and responses. In postwar North America
dramatic changes in both technology and the formation of national
identities influenced their new lives and helped shape their
memories. Their stories contribute to our understanding of postwar
immigration and fill a significant gap in the history of English
migration to Canada.
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