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A pioneering study of Canadian labour leaders' approach to immigration from the 1870s to the Great Depression.

Mass Capture argues the CI 9 documents implemented by the Canadian government to acquire information on Chinese migrants acted as a process of mass capture that produced non-citizens. Cho reveals CI 9s as more than documents of racist repression: they offer possibilities for beauty and dignity in the archive, for captivation as well as capture.

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- PART 1: ISSUES AND ARGUMENTS -- 1 Guarding the Gates -- 2 Setting the Stage: Labour, Industry, and Immigration in Canada, 1872-1934 -- PART 2: LABOUR'S ANTI-ASIAN AGITATION -- 3 The Bounds of Unity: Opposition to Chinese Immigration, 1880-87 -- 4 The \"Old Time Question\": The Campaign for Exclusion, 1888-1934 -- PART 3: LABOUR AND ATLANTIC IMMIGRATION -- 5 Superfluous People: Labour's Construction of Immigrants from Europe and the British Isles -- 6 Importing Victims: The Assault on the Commerce of Immigration -- PART 4: IMMIGRATION, IDEOLOGY, AND POLITICS -- 7 Immigration, Joseph Arch, and the Producer Ideology, 1872-79 -- 8 Imported Labour, the Tariff, and Land Reform, 1880-1902 -- 9 Retreat, Corporatism, and Responsible Management, 1903-34 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X.

Juxtaposing a discussion of state policy with ideas of race and citizenship in Canadian civil society, Carmela K. Patrias shows how minority activists were able to bring national attention to racist employment discrimination during the Second World War and obtain official condemnation of such discrimination.

A bold questioning of culture-based reparative justice initiatives - the political culture that inspired them and their efficacy in an age in which historically marginalized people are disproportionately represented in Canadian prisons.

The Japanese immigrants who arrived in the North American West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries included people with historical ties to Japan's outcaste communities. In the only English-language book on the subject, Andrea Geiger examines the history of these and other Japanese immigrants in the United States and Canada and their encounters with two separate cultures of exclusion, one based in caste and the other in race. Geiger reveals that the experiences of Japanese immigrants in North America were shaped in part by attitudes rooted in Japan's formal status system,mibunsei,decades after it was formally abolished. In the North American West, however, the immigrants' understanding of social status as caste-based collided with American and Canadian perceptions of status as primarily race-based. Geiger shows how the lingering influence of Japan's strict status system affected immigrants' perceptions and understandings of race in North America and informed their strategic responses to two increasingly complex systems of race-based exclusionary law and policy.

This book examines the historical antecedents of systemic racism in Canada?s legal and criminal justice systems, with a particular focus on the experiences of Asians and Blacks in the province of Ontario.

Courts today face a range of claims to redress historic injustice, including injustice perpetrated by law. In Canada, descendants of Chinese immigrants recently claimed the return of a head tax levied only on Chinese immigrants.Calling Power to Accountuses the litigation around the Chinese Canadian Head Tax Case as a focal point for examining the historical, legal, and philosophical issues raised by such claims. By placing both the discriminatory law and the judicial decisions in their historical context, some of the essays in this volume illuminate the larger patterns of discrimination and the sometimes surprising capacity of the courts of the day to respond to racism. A number of the contributors explore the implications of reparations claims for relations between the various branches of government while others examine the difficult questions such claims raise in both legal and political theory by placing the claims in a comparative or philosophical perspective. Calling Power to Accountsuggests that our legal systems can hope to play a part in responding to their own legacy of past injustice only when they recognize the full array of issues posed by the Head Tax Case.