SOCB49H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Indian Register, Indian Act, Eurocentrism
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Lecture 5: history of nation-building in canada, white settler society; europeans came to canada and colonized the land/saw it as empty/reproduced and increased white settler population. White man"s country - privileged members of society where white men/people of colour inferior + women were inferior/ intersectional based on gender/race/class: racial and gendered project; Deny the vote to women and not-white people: prevents citizenship/ denial of political participation, keeps like-minded people in government, orientalism war. It would be difficult for people in india to make it all the way to. Canada without stopping/in need of fuel/food/people die along the way etc: now: safe 3rd country agreement; you must claim refugee status in the first safe country you land in. Japan was a power so they were given a quota of immigrants they"d be allowed into canada. Chinese exclusion act; chinese people were unable to enter canada: gendered debates; contrasting between asian women and white women, asian women=hypersexual/white women=chaste and need of protection.
