Rita Deverell's Book "American Refugees" to be published.
American Refugees: Looking to Canada for Freedom
is slated for publication in April of 2019 by University of Regina Press.
When it became clear that Donald Trump would become the new US president
on election night in 2016, the website for Citizenship and Immigration
Canada crashed. It was overwhelmed by Americans afraid that the United
States would once again enter a period of intolerance and military
aggression. In American Refugees, Rita Deverell shows that from
the Revolutionary War to the Underground Railroad through to McCarthyism
and Vietnam, Americans have fled to Canada in times of crisis. Many
still flee. All have sought better lives, while helping to shape Canada
into the country it is today.
It can be pre-ordered from Amazon.
