Reviewed by Royden Loewen | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.3

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Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada. By Franca Iacovetta. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2006. xiv + 370 pp. Photos, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 Canadian (cloth).

This book makes an important addition to immigration history in North America, which has mostly focused on the great surge of migration from the 1860s to the outbreak of World War I, and with it, the transition to modern, urban, industrial society. This emphasis almost automatically led to irresolvable debates about uprootedness and transplantation that have been rescued more recently by cultural histories of malleable and invented ethnicities. Attention to mid- and late-twentieth-century immigration fundamentally changes this historiography. New travel and communications technologies, the coming of non-Europeans, the rise of a modern welfare society, the application of social scientific reasoning, and an ascending gospel of multicultural toleration produced a distinctive immigration era. Gatekeepers is part of this later narrative, albeit situated during the early decades of the Cold War. It focuses therefore on the reception of European refugees to Canada and not the later arrival of the more racialized immigrants such as Vietnamese, Chileans, Chinese, Lebanese, and Ethiopians.

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