SOSC 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Racialization, Antisemitism, Christie Pits
2 Dec 2015
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Canada"s response to asylum seekers in the 1930"s: the jewish case. *ethnic cleansing -> people avoiding ethnic cleansing in addition to. Some sought refuge to avoid political: closing the doors to refugees. Canada"s refusal to accept jews -> negative nation building in hewit reading. Ss st. louis -> ship that carried jews trying to seek refuge; it managed to reach canada but canada rejected and it returned to. Absorptive capacity -> jews to canada did not fit in socially/politically. Canada saw immigrants as economic/political liabilities rather than assets (saw them as outsiders: lack of policy framework. 125 avery there is no such term as refugee : anti-semitism: They were required to assimilate -> convert to christianity, change names etc: the racialization of identity. Jews were racialized and seen as homogenous all as one . Canadians saw the as responsible for their own treatment: political motives, resistance to state policy vis- -vis refugees.
