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- Title
Refugees, Humanitarian Internationalism, and the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada 1945-1952.
- Authors
Chanco, Christopher
- Abstract
This article examines the humanitarian internationalism of the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada (JLC) between 1938 and 1952. Throughout WWII, the JLC sent aid to European resistance movements, and in its aftermath participated in the "garment workers' schemes," a series of immigration projects that resettled thousands of displaced persons in Canada. Undertaken independently by the Jewish-Canadian community, with the assistance of trade unions, the projects worked to overcome tight border restrictions and early Cold War realpolitik. In doing so, the JLC united Jewish institutions, trade unionists, social democrats, and anti-fascists across Europe and North America. It also acted in a pivotal moment in the evolution of Canada's refugee system and domestic attitudes toward racism. As such, the JLC's history is a microcosm for the shifting nature of relations between Jews, Canada, and the left writ large.
- Subjects
CANADA; LABOR unions; INTERNATIONALISM; POLITICAL refugees; EUROPEAN integration; REFUGEES; ANTI-fascist movements; CANADIAN history
- Publication
Canadian Jewish Studies / Études Juives Canadiennes, 2020, Vol 30, p12
- ISSN
1198-3493
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.25071/1916-0925.40182