Civilian Internment in Canada

Histories and Legacies

By: Rhonda L. Hinther (Editor), Jim Mochoruk (Editor)

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Paperback | 28 February 2020

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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.

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"Hinther and Mochoruk believe this searing tale--in addition to others--serve as a "powerful reminder" of the "fragility of civil liberties and human rights," as well as a stand-in for a larger, more contested discussion on internment over the span of Canada's history. [...] The editors very much want readers to understand that Canada, despite all of the adulation it often receives in global diplomatic circles these days, had a "rich and shameful" record on these very civil right and liberties via civilian internment--defined as the detention as a prisoner without formal charge and conviction, almost always for political or military reasons."

--Britta Crandall & Russell Crandall "Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books"

"Many of the chapters--including Christine Whitehouse's on the ambivalent sexualities of Jewish refugees, Judith Kestler's on the positive reminiscences of interned German merchant marines, and Franca Iacovetta's on the "risky business" of complicating a community's understanding of its internment--are fascinating and, at least to this reader, novel."

--Jordan Stanger-Ross "BC Studies"

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