Diaspora Solidarities: Refugees, Human Rights, and the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada, 1936-1967
Resource type
Author/contributor
- Chanco, Christopher John Jacobi (Author)
Title
Diaspora Solidarities: Refugees, Human Rights, and the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada, 1936-1967
Abstract
This transnational history of the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada (JLC) retraces the organisations narratives, networks, and practices of diaspora solidarity, from the moment of its establishment and into the post-war period. The JLCs activists refracted their solidarities through the lens of a diasporic Jewish identity. At a time when Canada imposed strong barriers against refugees, the JLC worked to send aid to the anti-fascist resistance in Europe while participating in a series of immigration schemes to bring Jews from displaced persons camps over to Canada. It was in this unique moment that the JLC could also launch pioneering human rights and anti-racism campaigns within the labour movement. Representing one section of the organised Jewish community in Canada, the JLC proved a critical part of the transformation of the countrys treatment of refugees and minorities in the following decades.
Type
M.A., Geography
University
York University
Place
Toronto
Date
2018
# of Pages
153 pages
Language
en
Short Title
Diaspora Solidarities
Accessed
9/3/19, 1:35 AM
Library Catalog
yorkspace.library.yorku.ca
Rights
Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
Citation
Chanco, C. J. J. (2018). Diaspora Solidarities: Refugees, Human Rights, and the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada, 1936-1967 [M.A., Geography, York University]. https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/35500
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