SOC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: British Indian Army, Continuous Journey Regulation, Chinese Head Tax In Canada
13 Oct 2018
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By today"s standard, the tax would be the equivalent of 000 per person. In 2006, prime minister stephen harper issued a formal apology and financial redress to the chinese canadian community. Saint louie ship 1939, 900 jews turned away from canada in 1939, no apology to the group, jews trying to flee concentration camps, the whole world closed their doors to the group. Canada confined japanese immigrants and canadian citizens of. Confiscated personal property and forced their deportation from canada: again, canadian immigration policy was used to exclude a particular group of people this time those of japanese descent. Raymond moriyama famous canadian architect, david suzuki scientist, 23 000. Japanese taken to internment camps in british columbia, branded as enemy aliens their personal property was confiscated. In 1988, prime minister brian mulroney apologized to the japanese-canadian community. The voyage of the damned is another example of xenophobia in canadian immigration policy.
