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Between the 1920s and the 1940s, 10,000 traditionalist Mennonites emigrated from western Canada to isolated rural sections of Northern Mexico and the Paraguayan Chaco; over the course of the twentieth century, they became increasingly scattered through secondary migrations to East Paraguay, British Honduras, Bolivia, and elsewhere in Latin America. Despite this dispersion, these Canadian-descendant Mennonites, who now number around 250,000, developed a rich transnational culture over the years, resisting allegiance to any one nation and cultivating a strong sense of common peoplehood based on a history of migration, nonviolence, and distinct language and dress.
Village among Nations recuperates a missing chapter of Canadian history: the story of these Mennonites who emigrated from Canada for cultural reasons, but then in later generations "returned" in large numbers for economic and social security. Royden Loewen analyzes a wide variety of texts, by men and women - letters, memoirs, reflections on family debates on land settlement, exchanges with curious outsiders, and deliberations on issues of citizenship. They relate the untold experience of this uniquely transnational, ethno-religious community.
Contents
Preface
Acknowlegements
Introduction
Ch 1: Leaving the 'British Empire' in Canada: Promises in the South, 1916-1921
Ch 2. Drawing Lines on God's Earth: Settlers in Mexico and Paraguay, 1922-1929
Ch 3: Dreaming of 'Old Canada': Nostalgia in the Diaspora, 1930-1945
Ch 4: Rethinking Time and Space: East Paraguay and Beyond: 1945-1954
Ch 5: Meeting the Outside Gaze: New Life in British Honduras and Bolivia, 1954-1972
Ch 6: Crystallizing Memory: The Return of the 'Kanadier', 1951-1979
Ch 7: Imagining a Pan-American Village: Reading Die Mennonitische Post, 1977-1996
Ch 8: Homing in on the Transnational Village: Women Migrants in Ontario, 1985-2006
Conclusion
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