SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Jason Kenney, Chinese Head Tax In Canada, British Subject
13 Feb 2018
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The development of canadian citizenship and naturalisation laws reflect the legacy of british legal tradition of the subject, british imperial policies and the imperatives of a white settler formation. Enkashi (ena) dua: segue from colonialism to immigration: welcome letter from jason kenney, 2011 (then-minister of citizenship, immigration and multiculturalism: jason kenney highlights the partnership between colonizers and the. Bna"s des(cid:272)(cid:396)iptio(cid:374) o(cid:374) (cid:449)hat a(cid:374) i(cid:373)(cid:373)ig(cid:396)a(cid:374)t is: naturalisation act (1881, british subjects who were (cid:862)disabled(cid:863) were not qualified for citizenship; in the category were infants, married women, lunatic, and idiot. Unmarried women were the legal subject of their father: chinese immigration act (aka (cid:862)chinese head tax(cid:863)) (1885, over 17,000 chinese men were employed in the building of the. Cpr as well, many who were not chinese were employed: the chinese men were given the hardest tax, six-hundred died from the conditions, chinese exclusion act (1923, the cpr plaques do not mention anything about the torture.
