Contents

Preface

Introduction – Italians and Wartime Internment: Comparative Perspectives on Public Policy, Historical Memory, and Daily Life

Part One – Italian Canadians, Fascism, and Internment: Black Shirts or Sheep?

1 A Tangled Knot: Prelude to 10 June 1940

2 Exporting Fascism to Canada: Toronto's Little Italy

3 The Internment of Italian Canadians

4 'Uneasy Neighbours': Internment and Hamilton's Italians

Part Two – Other Canadian Internees: Drawing Distinctions

5 A War on Ethnicity? The RCMP and Internment

6 The Curious Case of Female Internees

7 The 'Camp Boys': Interned Refugees from Nazism

8 Political Prisoners: The Communist Internees

Part Three – Italians Interned Abroad: Three Case Studies

9 The Internment of Italians in Australia

10 The Internment of Italians in Britain

11 When Italian Americans Were 'Enemy Aliens'

Part Four – Memory and Redress: The Uses of the Past

12 Actor or Victim? Mario Duliani and His Internment Narrative

13 Images of Internment

14 The Politics of Redress: The Contemporary Ukrainian-Canadian Campaign

15 Redress, Collective Memory, and the Politics of History

Contributors

Illustration Credits

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