Unguarded Border tells the stories of the 50,000 Americans who fled across the border to Canada in the 1960s and 1970s, a migrant experience that does not fit the usual paradigms. Historian Donald W. Maxwell explores how these Americans in exile forged cosmopolitan identities, permanently changing perceptions of military service, nation, and citizenship. 

DONALD W. MAXWELL is an assistant professor of history at Indiana State University. Having always lived in the center of a state in the center of the country, he has always been fascinated with borders.
 

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Escaping over the Border: The Americans Who Went to Canada
Chapter 2: The Welcome Mat Is Spread All along the Border: How Americans Found Their Way to Canada
Chapter 3: Religion and Politics at the Border: Canadian Church Support for American Vietnam War Resisters 
Chapter 4: "Knowledge has no national character": Americans in Canadian Universities and the Movement of Ideas over the U.S.-Canadian Border
Chapter 5: "These are the things you gain if you make our country your country": Defining Citizenship along the U.S.-Canadian Border in the 1970s
Chapter 6: American Vietnam War-Era Émigrés and the Blurring of Borders
Appendix
Bibliography
Index