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- Refugee Crises, 1945–2000
- Publications of the German Historical Institute
- Refugee Crises, 1945–2000
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Responses to Refugee Crises in International Comparison
- Part I The Postwar and Decolonization Moment
- Part II Refugee Movements during the Cold War and beyond
- 7 The 1956–1957 Hungarian Refugee Crisis and the Role of the Canadian Press in Opening the Doors to Asylum Seekers
- 8 Responding to and Resettling the Vietnamese Boat People
- 9 US State and Civil Society Responses to Salvadoran Refugees, 1980–1991
- 10 The Plight of the First Post–Cold War Refugees
- 11 Rwandan Refugees in Tanzania, 1994–1996
- Part III Afterword
- Index
7 - The 1956–1957 Hungarian Refugee Crisis and the Role of the Canadian Press in Opening the Doors to Asylum Seekers
from Part II - Refugee Movements during the Cold War and beyond
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2023
- Refugee Crises, 1945–2000
- Publications of the German Historical Institute
- Refugee Crises, 1945–2000
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Responses to Refugee Crises in International Comparison
- Part I The Postwar and Decolonization Moment
- Part II Refugee Movements during the Cold War and beyond
- 7 The 1956–1957 Hungarian Refugee Crisis and the Role of the Canadian Press in Opening the Doors to Asylum Seekers
- 8 Responding to and Resettling the Vietnamese Boat People
- 9 US State and Civil Society Responses to Salvadoran Refugees, 1980–1991
- 10 The Plight of the First Post–Cold War Refugees
- 11 Rwandan Refugees in Tanzania, 1994–1996
- Part III Afterword
- Index
Summary
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.
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- Refugee Crises, 1945-2000Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison, pp. 157 - 180Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020