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Arthur Kroeger. Hard Passage: A Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to Canada. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2007. xii + 176 pages. $60.00 cloth, $34.95 paper. Hard Passage reads [...]

Abstract Otto Hahn, a lawyer and emigration promoter from the German state of Wurttemberg, was an integral part of the German debate about emigration, colonial empire and German identity. This [...]

The author explores the politics and social impact of Australia's immigration policy toward Russians in a post-WWII environment. Details of immigration law, Australian's views, and changes in alien labors laws are discussed.

This article demonstrates the neglected foreign policy dimension of Canada's immigration policy in the immediate postwar period before proceeding to a specific case study which integrates both domestic and external factors—the question of German immigrants. This case study serves to examine a clearly delineated intersection of the larger "political" background—Canada's policy towards postwar Europe—with questions such as ethnic mobilization and organization. The author concludes that Canadian immigration and refugee policy in the immediate postwar years remained a strange hybrid of Canada's internationalist aspirations and the incremental solution of domestic problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]