CANADIAN SNOWBIRDS AS MIGRANTS.

Canadian snowbirds, seasonal migrants wintering in the southern United States and the Caribbean, have been seen by Canada's nationalist elites as signs of Canada's demise as a strong, autonomous nation. This paper outlines a few parameters of that phenomenon, to demonstrate that Canadian snowbirds were and remain strongly attached to their Canadian (or Québécois) identity. What is being said about snowbirds and other Canadians travelling to the United States is more an avatar of nationalist discourse than anything else. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]