The Oriental Question
Consolidating a White Man's Province, 1914-41
Patricia E. Roy continues her study into why British Columbians were historically so opposed to Asian immigration.
- Copyright year: 2003
Negotiated Memory
Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse
This demonstrates how the Doukhobors employed both “classic” and alternative forms of autobiography to communicate their views about communal living, vegetarianism, activism, and spiritual life, as well as to pass on traditions to successive generations.
- Copyright year: 2004
Humanitarianism, Identity, and Nation
Migration Laws in Canada and Australia
Catherine Dauvergne examines the relationship between migration laws and national identities and highlights the role of humanitarianism in this linkage.
- Copyright year: 2005
Securing Borders
Detention and Deportation in Canada
A close look at the laws, policies, and practices of detention and deportation in Canada since the Second World War.
- Copyright year: 2005
Sanctuary, Sovereignty, Sacrifice
Canadian Sanctuary Incidents, Power, and Law
Facing immediate deportation, a lone Guatemalan migrant entered sanctuary in a Montreal church in December 1983. Thus began the practice of sanctuary in Canada.
- Copyright year: 2005
A History of Migration from Germany to Canada, 1850-1939
Considers why Germans left their home country, why they chose to settle in Canada, who assisted their passage, and how they crossed the ocean to their new home, as well as how the Canadian government perceived and solicited them as immigrants.
- Copyright year: 2005
Development's Displacements
Economies, Ecologies, and Cultures at Risk
- Copyright year: 2006
Transnational Identities and Practices in Canada
This is the first collection in Canada to provide a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of transnationalism.
- Copyright year: 2006
The Triumph of Citizenship
The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67
This final volume to Patricia E. Roy's pivotal trilogy exploring racial discrimination against Chinese- and Japanese-Canadians examines the removal of all Japanese-Canadians from the BC coast during WWII, while Chinese-Canadians gained the right to vote in 1947.
- Copyright year: 2007
Organizing the Transnational
Labour, Politics, and Social Change
This collection articulates a multi-level cultural politics of transnationalism to frame contemporary analyses of immigration and diasporas.
- Copyright year: 2007
Guarding the Gates
The Canadian Labour Movement and Immigration, 1872-1934
A pioneering study of Canadian labour leaders’ approach to immigration from the 1870s to the Great Depression.
- Copyright year: 2007
Voices Raised in Protest
Defending North American Citizens of Japanese Ancestry, 1942-49
- Copyright year: 2008
Colonial Proximities
Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921
Colonial Proximities traces the encounters between aboriginal peoples, mixed-race populations, Chinese migrants, and Europeans in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British Columbia.
- Copyright year: 2009
A Very Capable Life
The Autobiography of Zarah Petri
- Copyright year: 2009
Transnational Yearnings
Tourism, Migration, and the Diasporic City
By exploring circuits of migration and personal exchange between Toronto and Jamaica, this book maps a new way to look at postcolonial contact zones and transnational migration.
- Copyright year: 2010
Dreaming in Canadian
South Asian Youth, Bollywood, and Belonging
Dreaming in Canadian explores the connections between the media and identity formation among young Canadians of South Asian origin.
- Copyright year: 2010
Storied Communities
Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community
An exploration of the role of storytelling in community and nation building that disrupts the assumption in many works that indigenous and immigrant identities fall into two separate streams of analysis.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Way of the Bachelor
Early Chinese Settlement in Manitoba
This book documents the religious beliefs and cultural practices that helped sustain and lend meaning to Chinese bachelors in smaller towns and cities of Manitoba.
- Copyright year: 2011
Orienting Canada
Race, Empire, and the Transpacific
A hard-hitting reconsideration of Canadian foreign policy, Orienting Canada meticulously documents the dynamics of race and empire in the Transpacific from the 1907 race riots to Canada’s early involvement in Vietnam.
- Copyright year: 2011