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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1: Mass Immigration and the Remaking of the Postwar Nation -- 2: Press Narratives of Migration - From Scarcity and Red Slavery to Oranges and Humanity -- 3: Defining the Agenda - Professional Discourses of Integration and Citizenship -- 4: Institutional Gatekeepers - Democratic Pluralism or Ethnic Containment? -- 5: Tactics of Close Liaison - Political Gatekeepers, the Ethnic Press, and Anti-Communist Citizens -- 6: Culinary Containment? - Cooking for the Family, Democracy, and Nation -- 7: Shaping the Democratic Family - Popular Advice Experts and Settlement House Workers -- 8: From Newcomers to Dangerous Foreigners - Containing Deviant and Violent Men -- 9: The Sexual Politics of Survival and Citizenship - Social Workers, Damaged Women, and Canada's Moral Democracy -- 10: Guarding the Nation's Security - On the Lookout for Femmes Fatales, Scam Artists, and Spies -- 11: Peace and Freedom in Their Steps -- Abbreviations Used in the Photo Captions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

The article explores immigrant children's health in Toronto, Canada, during mass migration by analysing a 1960s women-led project involving southern Europeans launched by the International Institute of Metropolitan Toronto, the city's leading immigrant agency and part of a long-standing North American pluralist movement. Focused on the immigrant female fieldworkers tasked with convincing parents known for their 'reticence' in dealing with 'outsiders' to access resources to ensure their children's well-being, it assesses their role as interpreters for the public health nurses investigating the Italian and Portuguese children who increasingly dominated their referrals from Toronto's downtown schools. Without exaggerating their success, it documents the women's capacity for persuasion, and notes the value of community-based pluralist strategies in which women with links to those being served play active roles as front-line intermediaries. The article highlights the history of women's grassroots multiculturalism and the need to consider pluralism's possibilities as well as its limits.