América perfil de expatriados: Desde EE.UU.. proyecto que se resistÃa a burócratas de Canadá
In the 1960s and ’70s, during the Vietnam War, somewhere between 30,000 y 40,000 Estadounidenses llegaron a Canadá para escapar del proyecto — and many of them stayed. La New York Times recently profiled one of these expats.
Michael Wolfson llegó a Canadá en 1968, after his application for conscientious objector status was rejected. De acuerdo con la Tiempos, escribió a la junta de reclutamiento, saying, “The reason I did not comply with your order [to report for military service] is that I did not, on that particular day, feel like it….”
Eventualmente, aunque, Wolfson settled down and grew up. He earned a bachelor of science degree from the Universidad de Toronto and went on to receive a Ph.D. in economics from Cambridge University in the U.K. Hoy en dÃa, he has dual U.S.-Canadian citizenship and works as a senior statistician for Statistics Canada.
Usted puede leer el resto de la Tiempos artÃculo aquÃ. To learn more about what happened to many of the Vietnam-era draft resisters in Canada, have a look at the book, Paso del Norte: Resistentes a la Guerra de Vietnam americano en Canadá, by sociologist John Hagan.
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