POLS 392 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: William Lyon Mackenzie King, Japanese Canadians, Liberal Democracy
2 Apr 2018
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The state of being detained for political, often military, reasons: question: is that what happened in canada in 1942, 1947: deportations were stopped (beginning of holding the state of germany responsible for it"s violence/genocide) Deportation became attached to the concept of war crimes, meaning states became far more tolerant due to a new international understanding of what constitutes a war crime. Mainly aimed at chinese but also japanese as well ( orient ) Shouldn"t just write this off to the general racism of the time king"s ideas are rooted in common norms of the time. Preserving canada : the stopping of the oriental immigration entirely is urgently necessary, but that in itself will not suffice, since it leaves us with our present large oriental population and their prolific birth rate. Oikawa- attempts to describe not only an atrocity, but in why people are forgetting about the process of internment camps in canada (*** very important theme for final exam)
