Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- List of Figures & Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART ONE: FARMING, CULTURE, AND MIGRATION: THE NETHERLANDS AND ONTARIO -- 1: The Netherlands: The Country of Origin -- 2: Ontario: A Province of Immigrants -- 3: Dutch Farm Immigrants Prior to World War Two -- PART TWO: DUTCH FARM IMMIGRANTS AFTER WORLD WAR II -- 4: The Netherlands-Canada Settlement Scheme -- 5: Becoming a Canadian Farmer -- 6: Learning and Getting Ahead -- 7: Dutch Farmers in Different Regions -- 8: Forming Communities and Institutions -- 9: Getting Politically Involved -- 10: A Profile of Dutch-Canadian Farmers -- 11: Three Generations of Farmers: Continuity and Discontinuity -- PART THREE: THE DUTCH PRESENCE IN ONTARIO AGRICULTURE -- 12: Demographics and Spatial Distribution -- 13: Crop Specialization and Agribusiness -- 14: The European-Dutch Corporate Connection -- 15: The Newcomers -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix (dual scaling) -- Index.

Using a Canadian case study, this book demonstrates that Dutch immigrant farmers have a global competitive advantage. It also deals with the implications, both beneficial and harmful, of positive stereotyping, in this case the reputation of the Dutch as successful farmers. Farming in a Global Economy consists of three parts. The first provides an overview of farming and migration in the Netherlands and Ontario. Part two deals with Dutch farmers in Ontario from a historical and a sociological perspective, telling the story of postwar farm immigrants, much of it in their own words. The last part covers the Dutch presence in, and impact on, Ontario agriculture.

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