Civilian internment in Canada : histories and legacies / Rhonda L. Hinther and Jim Mochoruk, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hinther, Rhonda L., 1974- editor.

Mochoruk, Jim, 1957- editor.

Series:

Human rights and social justice series ; 2.

Human rights and social justice series ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Evacuation of civilians--Canada.

World War, 1914-1918.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 pages).

Place of Publication:

Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Civilian Internment in Canada examines abuse of the civil rights and liberties of tens of thousands of Canadians and Canadian residents via internment from 1914 to the present day. This ongoing story spans both war and peacetime and has affected people from a wide variety of political backgrounds and ethno-cultural communities, bequeathing a complex legacy for survivors and their descendants. Despite the well-known impounding of tens of thousands of Japanese, Ukrainians, assorted eastern Europeans, Germans, and Italians as "enemy aliens" during the two World Wars, civilian internment in this country has not been widely discussed, particularly in comparative ways. Indeed, there has been a propensity to sweep these events under the proverbial rug, keeping them out of the national discourse. Civilian Internment in Canada brings together senior scholars in the field of internment and civil liberties studies with emerging scholars, graduate students, community members, teachers, public historians, artists, former internees, descendants of internees, and redress activists to examine the processes and consequences of civilian internment during real and perceived wartime contexts, ranging from the Great War to the Cold War to the "War on Terror." It demonstrates the ways in which "shared authority" between scholars and subjects can both reshape our understanding of crucial episodes in Canada's history and bring a sense of vibrancy and immediacy to the all-too current question of civil liberties and minority rights in today's security state."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Introduction

Metanarratives

The Rule of Law and Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century

Human Rights and the Politics of Freedom: Civilian Internment in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Internment and the Ukrainian Left in Two World Wars

Reinserting Radicalism: Canadas First National Internment Operations, the Ukrainian Left, and the Politics of Redress

Collateral Damage: The Defence of Canada Regulations, Civilian Internment, Ethnicity, and Left-Wing Institutions

Authorities, Internment, and Community Interventions

An Unprecedented Dichotomy: Impacts and Consequences of Serbian Internment in Canada during the Great War

The Ex-Minister and the Fascist: A Tale of Two RCMP Informants during the Second World War1

Gender, Identity, and Internment in the Second World War

Camp Boys: Privacy and the Sexual Self

Likely to be Hampered and So She Prepared for the Worst: Far Left Women and Political Incarceration during the Second World War

Japanese Canadians: Resistance and Internment by Other MeanS

Informal Internment: Japanese Canadian Farmers in Southern Alberta, 19411945

Destroying the Myth of Quietism: Strikes, Riots, Protest, and Resistance in Japanese Internment

Personal Reflections and Documents of the Internment Experience

Japanese Canadian Internment: A Personal Account

Anecdote and Document: The Internment Experience of Rolf Schultze and Dorothy Caine

Ukrainian Internment during the Second World War: The Case of the Ukrainian Labour Farmer Temple Association and Peter Prokopchak

Commemorating Internment: Museums, Memory, and the Politics Of Public History

The New Brunswick Internment Camp Museum: Preserving the History of Internment Camp B-70

Exhibiting Contentious Topics: Finding a Place for the Internment Violin in the Canadian History Hall

Civilian Internment and the Impact of War: Legacy and Public History

International Internees: Canada as Host

The Paradox of Survival: Jewish Refugees Interned in Canada, 194043

Narrating Internment, Narrating Canada: Wartime Experiences of German Merchant Seamen

The Politics of Redress

A Numbers Game? : Stories of Suering in Italian Canadian Internment in the Second World War

The Internment of Japanese Canadians: A Human Rights Violation

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780887555916

0887555918

9780887555930

0887555934

OCLC:

1257342731