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- Title
BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES: GEOGRAPHIES AND IDENTITY IN CANADA AND THE U.S.
- Authors
Hardwick, Susan W.
- Abstract
This article provides an analysis of the migration pathways, settlement patterns, and national identities of American immigrants now residing in Canada. There are currently more U.S.-born residents of Canada than at any time since the Vietnam War, which was the largest politically motivated out-migration of people in the history of the United States. To document and analyze the patterns and related processes that shaped the experiences of this increasingly large group of immigrants in Canada depended on a variety of mixed methods including cartographic analysis, structured and unstructured interviews, focus groups, and survey questionnaires. Following an introductory overview of migration and settlement at the national scale in Canada, the article provides a more in depth provincial level analysis of the related political, socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental processes shaping the American exodus to British Columbia. This province was selected for closer examination because of the relatively large number of Americans living there, its role as an important magnet for U.S. settlement in the early 21st century, and the diverse spatial patterns of Americans residing in various places at different scales in the province (ranging from large metropolitan areas to small towns to remote, more rural locales). Findings reveal that the majority of U.S.-born residents in this province become Canadianized very rapidly after their arrival in Canada despite the close proximity of their homeland and the potential ease of maintaining a cross-border network of transnational linkages, relationships, and identities.
- Subjects
CANADA; UNITED States; EMIGRATION &; immigration; IMMIGRANTS; CARTOGRAPHIC materials; HUMAN settlements; VIETNAM War, 1961-1975
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Social Research, 2009, p19
- ISSN
1920-2121
- Publication type
Article