We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
from Part II - Refugee Movements during the Cold War and beyond
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2023
In the months following the suppression of Hungary’s Revolution of 1956, Canada provided asylum to some 38,000 Hungarian refugees – on a per capita basis, more than any other nation. This essay argues that Canadian media played a decisive role in sensitizing the public to the refugees’ plight and in putting pressure on the country’s political leaders to take action. The Hungarian-Canadian diaspora press was divided on whether to accept the “fifty-sixers,”but themainstream English and French Canadian media rallied public opinion around accepting an unparalleled influx of refugees to Canada and providing unprecedented forms of government assistance to ease the refugees’ arrival and integration.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
