Nationalism from the Margins
：Italians in Alberta and British Columbia
( McGill-Queens Studies in Ethnic History )
Publication subTitle ：Italians in Alberta and British Columbia
Publication series ：McGill-Queens Studies in Ethnic History
Author： Wood Patricia K.
Publisher： McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication year： 2002
E-ISBN: 9780773570238
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780773523692
Subject： K7 Americas History
Keyword： 美洲史
Language： ENG
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Description
In "Nationalism from the Margins" Patricia Wood offers a fresh approach to the study of immigration adaptation and collective and individual identity formation. In analysing a century of Italian migration to Alberta and British Columbia Wood documents a multicultural experience and vision of Canada that long preceded the official policy of 1971. She argues that nationalism is not one idea but a "relationship of voices, speaking from varying levels of political and social power, and to varying audiences." The Italian understanding of what it means to belong to Canada does not require the abandonment of ethnic identity but instead demonstrates the ways in which layers of identity intersect.