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The book focuses on the International Development Research Centre as a unique institution that has funded research in the developing South-research proposed and undertaken by Southern researchers-and how, as a result, it has had tremendous impact despite a relatively small budget. The IDRC is much better known in the developing South than in Canada; in many of the roughly 150 countries in which it has provided research funding it has contributed to creating a very positive image of Canada. The centre's arms-length relationship with Canadian government assistance provides it with enormous f

Clothing trade --- Immigrants --- East Europeans --- Jews --- Clothing workers --- History --- International Development Research Centre (Canada) --- History.

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I Have a Story to Tell You is about Eastern European Jewish immigrants living in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg in the early twentieth century. The stories encompass their travels and travails on leaving home and their struggles in the sweatshops and factories of the garment industry in Canada. Basing her work on extensive interviews, Seemah Berson recreates these immigrants’ stories about their lives in the Old Country and the hardship of finding work in Canada, and she tells how many of these newcomers ended up in the needle trades. Revealing a fervent sense of socialist ideology acquired in the crucible of the Russian Revolution, the stories tell of the influence of Jewish culture and traditions, of personal–and organized–fights against exploitation, and of struggles to establish unions for better working conditions. This book is a wonderful resource for teachers of Canadian, Jewish, and social history, as well as auto/biography and cultural studies. The simplicity of the language, transcribed from oral reports, makes this work accessible to anyone who enjoys a good story. ‹/p

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This collection of essays explores post-1989 Western perceptions of Eastern Europe and how these manifest themselves in cultural representations. It starts out from findings in the academic field of "post-socialism", claiming that "Easterners" and "Westerners" are still very much under the influence of the socialisation they underwent during the Cold War and its aftermath. As a consequence, the revolutions of 1989 and 1990 and the subsequent opportunities for exchange did not necessarily brin...

East Europeans in literature. --- Europe, Eastern --- Europe, Western --- Foreign public opinion. --- Foreign relations --- Relations --- Social conditions --- In literature.

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An analysis of how Angolan, Brazilian and Eastern European immigrant associations negotiate integration and identity strategies in Portugal.

Angolans --Portugal. --- Brazilians --Portugal. --- East Europeans --Portugal. --- Immigrants --Portugal --Social conditions. --- Portugal --Emigration and immigration. --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- Spain & Portugal --- History & Archaeology --- Immigrants --- Angolans --- Brazilians --- East Europeans --- Social conditions. --- Portugal --- Emigration and immigration. --- Émigration et immigration --- Intégration sociale --- Identité collective --- Immigrés --- Associations --- Eastern Europeans --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Ethnology --- Europeans --- Persons --- Aliens --- Associations. --- public administration --- sociology --- bestuurskunde --- sociologie

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The bibliography volume of the three-volume East Looks West: East European Travel Writing in Europe collates travel writing published in book form by east Europeans travelling in Europe from ca. 1550 to 2000. It is intended as a fundamental research tool, collecting together travel writings within each national/linguistic tradition, and enabling comparative analysis of such material. It fills an important gap in the existing reference literature, both in western and east European languages, and will be of use to those working in the growing fields of comparative travel writing, regional and national identities, and postcolonialism.These texts exist in surprisingly large numbers, and include writings of high literary quality as well as of historical interest, but they have been relatively little studied as a genre. Much of this material is rare and difficult to find, even in national libraries. As a result, there are few bibliographical surveys of the literature of east European travel and self-representation, and none that are region-wide or comparative in scope. This is the third volume of a three-part set of East Looks West, Vol. 1 - An Anthology of East European Travel Writing on Europe; and Vol. 2 - A Comparative Introduction to East European Travel Writing on Europe.

East Europeans --- Travelers' writings, East European --- East European travelers' writings --- East European literature --- Eastern Europeans --- Ethnology --- Europeans --- Travel --- Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Description and travel --- Európai irodalom --- útleírás --- bibliográfia. --- Bibliography, Early modern Europe, Eastern Europe, Hebrew, Travel writing, Yiddish.