Challenging Exile

Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution

Eric M. Adams, Jordan Stanger-Ross (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2025
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-7284-3 (ISBN)

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In September 1945, Canada proposed exiling Japanese Canadians to Japan, a country devastated by war. Thousands who had experienced internment and dispossession were now at risk of banishment.

In Challenging Exile, Eric M. Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross detail the circumstances and personalities behind the exile. They follow the lives of families facing government orders that uprooted them from their homes, stripped them of their livelihoods and possessions, and proposed to exile them from Canada. And they analyze the court case in which lawyers and judges grappled with the meaning of citizenship, race, and rights in times of war and its aftermath.

Unfolding in a context of global conflict, sharpened borders, and racist suspicion, the story told in Challenging Exile has enduring relevance for our own troubled times.

Eric M. Adams is a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta and has written widely on constitutional law, legal history, employment law, human rights, and legal education. He lives in Edmonton. Jordan Stanger-Ross is a professor of history at the University of Victoria and is the author of numerous works on the history of migration and race in North America. He lives in Victoria. Together, they were awarded the John T. Saywell Prize for Canadian Constitutional Legal History for their joint scholarship with the Landscapes of Injustice partnership, examining the uprooting and dispossession of Japanese Canadians during the 1940s.

Preface / Audrey Kobayashi

Introduction

1 Making Home

2 Contested Citizenship

3 The Cascade of Injustice

4 Choosing Wrongs

5 Fighting Dispossession

6 Conceiving Exile

7 Signing Day

8 Ordering Exile

9 At the Supreme Court of Canada

10 Shifting Ground

11 Experiencing Exile

12 Traditions in the Twilight

13 At the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

14 Exile and the Constitution

Epilogue

Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.09.2025
Reihe/Serie	Law and Society
Zusatzinfo	68 b&w photos, 4 maps, 6 illus.
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7748-7284-5 / 0774872845
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-7284-3 / 9780774872843
Zustand	Neuware