Moved by the state : forced relocation and making a good life in postwar Canada /

Moved by the state : forced relocation and making a good life in postwar Canada /

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Author / Creator:	Loo, Tina, 1962- author.
Imprint:	Vancouver, BC ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2019]
Description:	xii, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Brenda & David McLean Canadian studies Brenda and David McLean Canadian studies series.
Subject:	Forced migration -- Canada -- History -- 20th century. Forced migration -- Social aspects -- Canada. Forced migration -- Political aspects -- Canada. Forced migration -- Canada -- Psychological aspects. Forced migration. Forced migration -- Social aspects. Population policy. Canada -- Population policy -- History -- 20th century. Canada. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11906155

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ISBN:	0774861002 9780774861007
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Issued also in electronic formats.
Summary:	"'Why don't they just move?' This reductive question is asked whenever reports surface of the all-too-common lack of social services and economic opportunities in Canada's rural and urban communities. But why are certain people and places vulnerable? And who is responsible for a remedy? From the 1950s to the 1970s, the Canadian government relocated people, often against their will, in order to improve their lives. Moved by the State offers a completely new interpretation of this undertaking, seeing it as part of a larger project of development and focusing on the bureaucrats and academics who designed, implemented, and monitored the relocations rather than on those who were uprooted. In this finely crafted history, Tina Loo explores the contradiction between intention and consequence as diverse communities across Canada were resettled. In the process, she reveals the optimistic belief underpinning postwar relocations: the power of the interventionist state to do good."--
Other form:	Online version: Loo, Tina, 1962- Moved by the state. Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, 2019 0774861029 9780774861021

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