Strangers at the Gate: The ''Boat People''s'' First Ten Years in Canada
ISBN: 9781442680234
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Refugees -- Canada; Asia Southeastern -- Emigration and immigration; Refugees -- Asia Southeastern;

Describes Beiser's ten-year study of 1,300 Boat People admitted to Canada between 1979 and 1981 and chronicles the former refugees' struggles to establish themselves in their new environment. A remarkable study with profoundly human dimensions.


Beiser Morton :

Morton Beiser is the professor of Cultural Pluralism and Health, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, and Director of the Toronto Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement.

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