Young Well Educated And Adaptable

Download or read book Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable written by Francis Peddie and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1973 and 1978, six thousand Chileans leftists took refuge in central Canada after the Pinochet coup d’état. Once resettled at the northern extreme of the Americas, these political exiles had to find ways of coping with an abrupt and violent separation from their homeland that had deep material and emotional repercussions. In Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable, Francis Peddie documents the experiences of twenty-one Chileans as they navigate their newfound identity as exiles. Peddie also considers how the admission of people from the wrong side of the Cold War ideological divide had an effect on Canadian immigration and refugee policy, establishing a precedent for the admission of political exiles over the decades that followed.