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GAR NA DAI DOE HEEM/CANADA APOLOGIES

Redress and a Pedagogy of Accountability

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Part of the book series: Transgressions ((TRANS,volume 84))

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Despite perceived military necessities at the time, the forced removal and internment of Japanese Canadians during World War II and their deportation and expulsion following the war, was unjust. In retrospect, government policies of disenfranchisement, detention, confiscation and sale of private and community property, expulsion, deportation and restriction of movement, which continued after the war, were influenced by discriminatory attitudes.

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Chan, J. (2012). GAR NA DAI DOE HEEM/CANADA APOLOGIES. In: Wright, H.K., Singh, M., Race, R. (eds) Precarious International Multicultural Education. Transgressions, vol 84. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-894-0_8

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