TY - BOOK
T1 - Relocating Eden
T2 - The Image and Politics of Inuit Exile in the Canadian Arctic
AU - Marcus, Alan Rudolph
PY - 1995/7/1
Y1 - 1995/7/1
N2 - In the early 1950s, a number of Inuit men, women, and children were loaded on ships and sent to live in the Canadian High Arctic. Spurred by government agents' promises of plentiful game and virgin land, these "voluntary migrants" found instead isolation, physical hardship and a government refusing to return them home. This author presents a cross-cultural study based on extensive fieldwork and archival research revealing that the relocation experiments were both an attempt in social engineering and a plan to solidify Canada's Cold War sovereignty in the far North.
AB - In the early 1950s, a number of Inuit men, women, and children were loaded on ships and sent to live in the Canadian High Arctic. Spurred by government agents' promises of plentiful game and virgin land, these "voluntary migrants" found instead isolation, physical hardship and a government refusing to return them home. This author presents a cross-cultural study based on extensive fieldwork and archival research revealing that the relocation experiments were both an attempt in social engineering and a plan to solidify Canada's Cold War sovereignty in the far North.
KW - Inuit
KW - relocation
KW - Canadian Arctic
KW - human rights
UR - https://www.upne.com/953420.html
UR - https://www.amazon.com/Relocating-Eden-Politics-Canadian-Visions/dp/0874516595
UR - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Relocating-Eden-Politics-Canadian-Visions/dp/0874516595
UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/article/590165/pdf
UR - http://www.abdn.ac.uk/staffpages/uploads/enl333/Eden%20review%20excerpts5.pdf
M3 - Book
SN - 9780874516593
BT - Relocating Eden
PB - University Press of New England
CY - Hanover
ER -