SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Jason Kenney, British Subject, Eaves
20 Mar 2016
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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. Segue from aboriginal peoples to immigration: welcome letter from jason kenney, 2011 (then-minister of citizenship, immigration and multiculturalism) Immigration and the social/legal construction of white canada . Historic people being privileged, they didn"t want to come eastern europeans might have wanted to come but couldn"t. 2: white people didn"t or could come. Stipulated who was and was not qualified for citizenship. British subjects who were disabled did not qualify: the status of being an infant or lunatic, idiot or married women - meaning they were disabled, before this was before the persons case married women property act. Extension of the unity doctrine: husband and wife get married and she"s his, chinese immigration act (aka chinese head tax ) (1885, men started coming in - head tax pay per head.
