Welcoming International and Foreign Students in Canada: Friendly Relations with Overseas Students (fros) at the University of Toronto, 1951–68.
In: Canadian Historical Review, Jg. 100 (2019-03-01), Heft 1, S. 22-45
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One organization particularly dedicated to the understanding and well-being of foreign students in Canada was Friendly Relations with Overseas Students (fros). Active during the 1950s and 1960s, fros became a symbol for Canada to assert its openness and distinctiveness in North America. As an organization focused on counselling, accommodating, and, to some extent, integrating foreign students, fros also built bridges between Canada and the rest of the world. The experience of fros members thus allows us to both deepen our understanding of foreign students' agency and of the meaning and importance of their transnational experience for both themselves and Canada. In this article, I concentrate on the narrative about cultural exchange forged at fros by both its personnel and students. I propose that what I call the "fros narrative" was a discourse about the integration of foreign students on the University of Toronto's campus and in the larger Canadian society. It promoted intercultural connections and a form of globalism. It also had a transformative and even redemptive dimension, as it aimed to change people's worldviews and self-conceptions by abolishing ethnic prejudices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
L'une des organisations qui s'est le plus consacrée à l'accueil et au bien-être des étudiants étrangers au Canada s'appelait Friendly Relations with Overseas Students (fros). Active au cours des années 1950 et 1960, elle est devenue un symbole de l'ouverture et de la spécificité du Canada comme terre d'accueil en Amérique du Nord. Se consacrant à l'orientation, à l'accommodation et à l'intégration des étudiants étrangers, fros a construit de multiples ponts entre le Canada et le reste du monde. L'expérience du personnel et des étudiantes qui ont été impliqués dans l'organisation nous permet à cet égard d'approfondir notre compréhension de l'agentivité des étudiants étrangers et de la signification de leur trajectoire transnationale. Dans cet article, je me penche plus particulièrement sur le récit forgé par fros sur l'intégration des étudiants étrangers sur le campus de l'Université de Toronto et dans la société canadienne. Je démontre que ce récit promouvait les échanges interculturels et une forme de globalisme, et qu'il comprenait une dimension transformative puisqu'il cherchait à transformer les visions du monde et les conceptions de soi et de l'autre en abolissant les préjugés ethniques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Welcoming International and Foreign Students in Canada: Friendly Relations with Overseas Students (fros) at the University of Toronto, 1951–68.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Poitras, Daniel |
Zeitschrift: | Canadian Historical Review, Jg. 100 (2019-03-01), Heft 1, S. 22-45 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2019 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0008-3755 (print) |
DOI: | 10.3138/chr.2017-0133 |
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