Representing “New Canadians”: Competing Narratives about Recent German Immigrants to Manitoba, Alexander Freund

[Representing “New Canadians”: Competing Narratives about Recent German Immigrants to Manitoba, Alexander Freund. Исследование мигрантов-меннонитов из Казахстана и России, прибывших в Манитобу в 2000-х годах, их культурной идентичности и восприятия в канадском обществе. Анализирует противоречи] Representing “New Canadians”: Competing Narratives about Recent German Immigrants to Manitoba Alexander Freund, University of Winnipeg In October 2002, the New York Times reported on a strange, new phenomenon in a far-away part of the world—far away, at least, to many Americans and even Canadians. The reporter from the metropolis began his story with an observation of the foreign people he had come to visit in the remote countryside: A “barefoot” woman, her hair “tied in a kerchief” and wearing an…

[Representing “New Canadians”: Competing Narratives about Recent German Immigrants to Manitoba, Alexander Freund. Исследование мигрантов-меннонитов из Казахстана и России, прибывших в Манитобу в 2000-х годах, их культурной идентичности и восприятия в канадском обществе. Анализирует противоречи] Journal of Mennonite Studies 340 Tschritter was married to David, “a carpenter who makes patio doors in a local window factory.” The couple owned a six-bedroom house, and their children had a trampoline in the front yard. Having digested this information, readers may have felt better prepared for the next barrage of oddities, namely that the family owned “a sumptuous fruit and vegetable garden” and a “barn full of animals.”1 The New York Times article was among the first stories the North American p…