From: The Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples/Nicaraguans/Lisa Kowalchuk
An excellent introduction to the history and contemporary situation in Nicaragua, including the 1979 revolution and the policies of the Sandinista government, is David Close, Nicaragua: Politics, Economics and Society (New York, 1988). Kent Norsworthy with Tom Barry, Nicaragua: A Country Guide (Albuquerque, N.M., 1990), provides a good overview of political, social, and economic phenomena during the 1980s, including the first 100 days of the post-Sandinista UNO government and the impact of U.S. intervention in the country.
Whereas Canada’s Guatemalan and Salvadorean populations have received the attention of a few researchers and/or authors, little has been published about the life of Nicaraguans in Canada. The policies and other conditions behind Nicaraguan immigration to Canada, as well as the background of Nicaraguans admitted to Canada, are discussed in several more general articles, including Alan Simmons, “Latin American Immigration to Canada: New Linkages in the Hemispheric Migration and Refugee Flow System,” International Journal, vol.48, no.2 (1993), 289–309; Tanya Basok and Alan Simmons, “A Review of the Politics of Canadian Refugee Selection,” in The International Refugee Crisis: British and Canadian Responses, ed. by Vaughan Robinson (London, 1993), 135–57; and Phil Ryan, Compassion or Expediency: The Overseas Selection of Central American Refugees (Toronto, 1988).
