White Canada Forever: Popular Attitudes and Public Policy Toward Orientals in British Columbia

White Canada Forever: Popular Attitudes and Public Policy Toward Orientals in British Columbia
ISBN-10
0773523227
ISBN-13
9780773523227
Category
Asians
Pages
236
Language
English
Published
2002-02-08
Publisher
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Author
W. Peter Ward

Description

Ward draws upon a rich record of events and opinion in the provincial press, manuscript collections, and successive federal enquiries and royal commissions on Asian immigration. He locates the origins of west coast racism in the frustrated vision of a white British Columbia and an unshakeable belief in the unassimilability of the Asian immigrant. Canadian attitudes were dominated by a series of interlocking, hostile stereotypes derived from western perceptions of Asia and modified by the encounter between whites and Asians on the north Pacific coast. Public pressure on local, provincial, and federal governments led to discriminatory policies in the field of immigration and employment, and culminated in the forced relocation of west coast Japanese residents during World War II.

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