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- Title
WE NEEDED TO PROVE WE WERE GOOD CANADIANS: CONTRASTING PARADIGMS FOR SUSPECT MINORITIES.
- Authors
Massa, Evelyne; Weinfeld, Morton
- Abstract
Issues of competing or dual loyalties have re-emerged in importance in increasingly diverse western societies, including Canada, following the 9-11 attacks and the steady increase in diasporic-homeland transnational ties. This paper offers a re-examination and re-interpretation of the historical experience of Canadian Italians, Germans and Japanese before, during and after World War Two. That experience foreshadows current dilemmas. It confirms that two paradigms shaped their communal responses to their suspect status and victimization in Canada, and their eventually successful efforts at full re-integration and rehabilitation. The first is a tolerance paradigm which draws on an older tradition of minorities as unequal citizens, and is generally discredited today. The second, more prominent post-war and after the introduction of the Charter, can be called a rights paradigm and emphasizes a clear assertion of equality for minority citizens. It is suggested that both these paradigms in fact contributed to the difficult task of re-integration facing these three minority groups, during and after the War, and both may also have value for vulnerable or suspect Canadian minorities affected by international conflict today.
- Subjects
CANADA; LOYALTY; WORLD War II; CRIME victims; MINORITIES; INTERNATIONAL conflict
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Social Research, 2009, p15
- ISSN
1920-2121
- Publication type
Article