Tightrope Passage: Along the Refugee Route to Canada

Joseph Garcea is a professor of political Studies at the University of
Saskatchewan.

Written by a Czechoslovakian refugee who came to Canada via Austria,
this book explores the challenges of living in (and leaving) a country
under authoritarian rule; the psychological difficulties of being a
refugee; the nature of Austria’s asylum system; and the mechanics of
Canada’s refugee determination, processing, and settlement system. The
book’s two central themes are (i) the damage that authoritarian
regimes inflict on the human spirit, and (ii) the value of freedom.

Insightful, if somewhat overlong, this book will appeal to those
interested in the psychological dimensions of the refugee experience and
so-cial dimensions of refugee flows.