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McGill Talks Episode 2 Global Migration
We are witnessing the largest migration of people fleeing war and difficulty since WW2. How should states face these challenges? Are there solutions that politicians are ignoring? To discuss are four McGill professors: Francois Crépeau, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants; Adelle Blackett, Director, Labour Law & Development Research Laboratory; Jill Hanley, School of Social Work, co-founder of the Immigrant Workers Center in Montreal, and; Laura Madokoro, History, specializing in the relationship between race, migration and humanitarianism. Moderated by Jacquie Rourke. Produced by McGill Multimedia, with the support of Canal Savoir.
Laura Madokoro, McGill University
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Migrants deserve the right to make decisions about where they live
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Transactions and Trajectories: The Social Life of Chinese Migrant Photographs
Published by Photography and Culture
2015 Beginning in the 1880s, the New Zealand Collector of Customs required Chinese migrants temporarily departing the country to submit an identifying photograph to its custody and control. Migrants carried a duplicate copy with them to China and would present themselves, and their copy of the photograph, upon their return to New Zealand to regain entry and avoid paying a punitive poll tax more than once.
URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17514517.2015.1091180
Surveying Hong Kong in the 1950s: Western Humanitarians and the ‘Problem’ of Chinese Refugees
Published by Modern Asian Studies
2015 At the end of the Second World War, there were over a million displaced persons and refugees in Europe alone. Hundreds of thousands of people were uprooted with the expansion of the Japanese empire across the Pacific Theater, and many others were similarly displaced when Japan was defeated. Others later fled civil conflicts, in South Asia, for instance, and in China, where thousands left the mainland during the final days of the Chinese Civil War. Among this massive displacement in Asia, unlike in Europe, only a few groups were identified as refugees.
URL: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9554175
Global Displacements and Emplacement: The Forced Exile and Resettlement Experiences of Ethnic Chinese
Published by Journal of Chinese Overseas
Handprints in the Archives: Exploring the Emotional Life of the State
Published by Social History
2015 Using Certificates of Exemption issued by the government of Australia from 1901 to 1958, this article explores how official immigration records can be used to document the emotional life of the state. As part of the government’s efforts to discourage Asian migrants from settling permanently in Australia, the 1901 Immigration Act required new arrivals to pass a dictation test in order to be admitted.
URL: http://hssh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/hssh/article/view/40394
Aging, Activism, and the Archive: Feminist Perspectives for the 21st Century
Published by Archivaria
2014 This article investigates the process of a collaborative, community-driven initiative to create an archives for the Grandmothers Advocacy Network (GRAN), a national Canadian organization. Based on records, key informant interviews, and the authors’ participation in the process, the article points to two salient limitations in archival scholarship: (1) the existing gap in considering how intergenerational relationships might form around, and potentially shape, collaborative archives; and (2) the scarce attention given to how, by whom, and to what effect older women’s lives and associations are being recorded and represented.
URL: http://journals.sfu.ca/archivar/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13544
Biography
Dr. Laura Madokoro is a historian of global migration whose research explores the history of refugees, race and humanitarianism. She is the author of Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War (Harvard University Press, 2016), which looks at how race influenced the character of the international refugee regime with particular attention to how it shaped the migration and resettlement of Chinese refugees to British white settler societies during the cold war. Madokoro's work has also appeared in a variety of international and national academic journals including the Journal of Refugee Studies, the Canadian Historical Review, the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association and the Urban History Review. Her current research, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, investigates the history of sanctuary in North America from the 19th-century to the present. The project explores how secular and religious offers of sanctuary enforced notions of deserving recipients and challenged the authority and legitimacy of the nation-state.