TY - GEN T1 - Unguarded Border : American Émigrés in Canada During the Vietnam War. T2 - War Culture Series. A1 - Maxwell, Donald W. LA - English PP - Chicago PB - Rutgers University Press YR - 2023 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1376195537 AB - The United States is accustomed to accepting waves of migrants who are fleeing oppressive conditions and political persecution in their home countries. But in the 1960s and 1970s, the flow of migration reversed as over fifty thousand Americans fled across the border to Canada to resist military service during the Vietnam War or to escape their homeland's hawkish society. Unguarded Border tells their stories and, in the process, describes a migrant experience that does not fit the usual paradigms. Rather than treating these American refugees as unwelcome foreigners, Canada embraced them, refusing to extradite draft resisters or military deserters and not even requiring passports for the border crossing. And instead of forming close-knit migrant communities, most of these émigrés sought to integrate themselves within Canadian society. Historian Donald W. Maxwell explores how these Americans in exile forged cosmopolitan identities, coming to regard themselves as global citizens, a status complicated by the Canadian government's attempts to claim them and the U.S. government's eventual efforts to reclaim them. Unguarded Border offers a new perspective on a movement that permanently changed perceptions of compulsory military service, migration, and national identity. OP - 295 NO - Description based upon print version of record. CN - DS559.8.D7 M39 2023 SN - 9781978834057 SN - 1978834055 SN - 9781978834040 SN - 1978834047 SN - 9781978834033 SN - 1978834039 SN - 9781978834026 SN - 1978834020 KW - Americans : Canada : History : 20th century. KW - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 : Desertions : United States. KW - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 : Draft resisters : United States. KW - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 : Protest movements : United States. KW - Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 : Insoumis : États-Unis. KW - Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 : Contestation : États-Unis. KW - HISTORY / General. KW - Americans KW - Desertion, Military KW - Protest movements KW - Canada KW - United States KW - 1900-1999 KW - vietnam war, america, canada, us, united states, draft, military, policy, draft dodging, immigration, emmigration, deportation, undocumented, illegal immigration, politics, history, 1970s, 1960s, war. KW - History ER -