Laura Madokoro
Biographic Data
| ID | 122294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Madokoro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Madokoro |
| SIGNATURE | MADOKORO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9173-8224 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
More Than a Face
Based on the making of a public-facing virtual exhibit titled More Than a Face, this article explores the entangled relationship between identity, academic research, and community. In tracing the origins and conceptual frameworks that shaped the development of this exhibit, the author reflects on lessons learned from this project and on how these intersect with initiatives around equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in the Canadian academic con…
On Teaching Human Rights History in a Settler Colonial Context
Based on several years of experience in teaching human rights history to undergraduate students in Canada, this article reflects on the challenges involved in imparting knowledge on this subject in a settler colonial context. It builds on examples gleaned from working with undergraduate students, from scholarship on the history of settler colonialism, as well as from Indigenous worldviews and epistemologies, to consider the ways in which the teac…
The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky
Journal Article The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky: A History of the Chinese Experience in Montana. By Mark T. Johnson Get access The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky: A History of the Chinese Experience in Montana By Mark T. Johnson (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. ix + 260 pp. Photographs, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00.) Laura Madokoro Laura Madokoro Carleton UniversityOttawa, Ontario, Canada laura.madokoro@carleto…
Eurocentrism and the International Refugee Regime
Whither the Refugees? International Organisations and “Solutions” to Displacement, 1921–1960
Achieving “durable solutions” is a central goal of the contemporary refugee regime. Durable solutions are often equated with three routes to resolving displacement—voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement—and the concept is closely tied to ideas about permanency, protection, and the rectification of refugees’ legal limbo. Despite its contemporary prominence, the genealogy of the concept of durable solutions has not been fully con…
Loss and the City
The Stakes of Sanctuary
This introductory article lays out the objectives for this special issue of Migration and Society . In focusing on the stakes of sanctuary, both this introduction and the special issue concentrate on the ways sanctuary is inspired by, connected to, and symbolic of larger political and social processes. To see what is at stake, we outline some of the myriad possible meanings of sanctuary and examine the justifications given by the actors who offer…
From Citizens to Refugees”
Beginning in 1942, almost 22,000 Japanese Canadians were removed from their homes on the West Coast of British Columbia. While some citizens privately understood their situation as akin to other histories of displacement, they never discussed their situation publicly using the language of refugeehood or exile. By contrast, the Cooperative Committee on Japanese Canadians, which protested the federal government’s deportation of Japanese Canadians i…
Nothing to offer in return”
From 1975 to 1979, Canadian politicians and diplomats observed and discussed the possibility that a genocide was taking place in Cambodia. The situation was difficult to ascertain, however, given the limited history between the two countries and the deep isolation in which the Khmer Rouge regime operated after rising to power, as well as the Canadian government’s limited interest in international human rights until the late 1970s. It wasn’t until…
Exclusion by Other Means
The end of the so-called "Chinese Exclusion Era" in Canada (1885-1947) did not lead automatically to open and free migration. In the absence of overtly racebased discriminatory policies, Canadian officials in the early 1950s required migrants from the People's Republic of China to produce an additional set of costly medical exams. This paper explores the impact of this targeted medical discrimination against Chinese migrant families. It investiga…
Introduction
Introduction:The Historical Borderlands of Health and Mobility Lisa Chilton (bio), Laura Madokoro (bio), James Moran (bio), and David Wright (bio) RECENT MASS MIGRATIONS, fueled by nation-state instability, war, environmental degradation, and staggering global disparities in wealth, have pushed issues of border control and immigration to the top of international concerns. After two generations of forging larger, supranational institutions and pro…
On future research directions
Building on the historiography surrounding existing studies of migration and settler colonialism in Canada, this article considers possible future research directions in these fields with a few to squaring epistemological differences in how the permanency and implications of human movement are understood
Peril and possibility
This paper provides an overview of the trajectory of research on immigration history, now migration history, in Canada over the past 50 years and highlights recent points of intersection with the newly established field of settler colonial studies. The article concludes by positing questions about the possibility of building on these points of intersection and dissension in future research in these fields
Dominion of Race
How has race shaped Canada’s international encounters and its role in the world? How have the actions of politicians, diplomats, citizens, and nongovernmental organizations reflected and reinforced racial power structures in Canada? In this book, leading scholars grapple with these complex questions, destabilizing conventional understandings of Canada in the world. Dominion of Race exposes how race-thinking has informed priorities and policies, p…
The Diplomacy of Migration
Effecting Change
Historic transformations took place in Canada’s refugee programs in the 1970s. Through the eyes of Michael Molloy, then director of Refugee Policy in the Department of Manpower and Immigration, this article explores the political climate that led to innovations in refugee admissions and resettlement efforts as they evolved from subjective, ad hoc affairs in the immediate post-war period to integral aspects of Canada’s immigration program by the l…
Human Rights in Canada
Elusive Refuge
The 1949 Chinese Communist Revolution is a subject of inexhaustible historical interest, but the plight of millions of Chinese who fled China during this tumultuous period has been largely forgotten. Elusive Refuge recovers the history of China's twentieth-century refugees. Focusing on humanitarian efforts to find new homes for Chinese displaced by civil strife, Laura Madokoro points out a constellation of factors—entrenched bigotry in countries …
Transactions and Trajectories
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. As a result of these regulatory processes, the…
Handprints in the Archives
À partir des certificats d’exemption délivrés par le gouvernement de l’Australie de 1901 à 1958, l’article ci-après traite de la façon dont on peut utiliser les archives officielles de l’immigration pour rendre compte de la vie affective de l’État. Dans le cadre des efforts du gouvernement visant à dissuader les migrants asiatiques de s’établir en permanence en Australie, la loi de 1901 sur l’immigration a exigé des nouveaux venus qu’ils se soume…
Questioning the Dynamics and Language of Forced Migration in Asia
To what extent are different parts of the world exceptional when it comes to the history of forced migration and refugee experiences? For instance, is forced migration in Asia distinct from developments elsewhere? Or is forced migration in Asia part of wider processes of displacement and emplacement so characteristic of the modern world? Over the past few decades, the fields of refugee and forced migration studies have ballooned. Scholars in a wi…
Surveying Hong Kong in the 1950s
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…
Building Sanctuary
Global Displacements and Emplacement
Postcolonial Migrants and Identity Politics
Reviewed by: Postcolonial Migrants and Identity Politics: Europe, Russia, Japan and the United States in comparison ed. by Ulbe Bosma, Jan Lucassen, Gert Osstindie Laura Madokoro Postcolonial Migrants and Identity Politics: Europe, Russia, Japan and the United States in comparison Edited by Ulbe Bosma, Jan Lucassen and Gert Osstindie. New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012. What is a postcolonial migrant? What can be gained from thinking of postc…
Effecting Change
Historic transformations took place in Canada’s refugee programs in the 1970s. Through the eyes of Michael Molloy, then director of Refugee Policy in the Department of Manpower and Immigration, this article explores the political climate that led to innovations in refugee admissions and resettlement efforts as they evolved from subjective, ad hoc affairs in the immediate post-war period to integral aspects of Canada’s immigration program by the l…
Peril and possibility
This paper provides an overview of the trajectory of research on immigration history, now migration history, in Canada over the past 50 years and highlights recent points of intersection with the newly established field of settler colonial studies. The article concludes by positing questions about the possibility of building on these points of intersection and dissension in future research in these fields
Whither the Refugees? International Organisations and “Solutions” to Displacement, 1921–1960
Achieving “durable solutions” is a central goal of the contemporary refugee regime. Durable solutions are often equated with three routes to resolving displacement—voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement—and the concept is closely tied to ideas about permanency, protection, and the rectification of refugees’ legal limbo. Despite its contemporary prominence, the genealogy of the concept of durable solutions has not been fully con…
Surveying Hong Kong in the 1950s
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…
Borders Transformed
Journal Article Borders Transformed: Sovereign Concerns, Population Movements and the Making of Territorial Frontiers in Hong Kong, 1949–1967 Get access Laura Madokoro Laura Madokoro Department of History, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 25, Issue 3, September 2012, Pages 407–427, https://doi.org…
Questioning the Dynamics and Language of Forced Migration in Asia
To what extent are different parts of the world exceptional when it comes to the history of forced migration and refugee experiences? For instance, is forced migration in Asia distinct from developments elsewhere? Or is forced migration in Asia part of wider processes of displacement and emplacement so characteristic of the modern world? Over the past few decades, the fields of refugee and forced migration studies have ballooned. Scholars in a wi…
Global Displacements and Emplacement
Good Material
In August 1968, the Soviet Union sent troops into Czechoslovakia to crush the burgeoning spirit of reform known as the “Prague Spring”. The Soviet invasion and the return of oppressive government measures triggered the flight of twenty-seven thousand people, eleven thousand of whom came to Canada.Using newly released archival records, this paper explores how the Canadian government approached the refugee crisis and argues that confident officials…
Eurocentrism and the International Refugee Regime
From Citizens to Refugees”
Beginning in 1942, almost 22,000 Japanese Canadians were removed from their homes on the West Coast of British Columbia. While some citizens privately understood their situation as akin to other histories of displacement, they never discussed their situation publicly using the language of refugeehood or exile. By contrast, the Cooperative Committee on Japanese Canadians, which protested the federal government’s deportation of Japanese Canadians i…
Good Material
In August 1968, the Soviet Union sent troops into Czechoslovakia to crush the burgeoning spirit of reform known as the “Prague Spring”. The Soviet invasion and the return of oppressive government measures triggered the flight of twenty-seven thousand people, eleven thousand of whom came to Canada.Using newly released archival records, this paper explores how the Canadian government approached the refugee crisis and argues that confident officials…
‘Slotting’ Chinese Families and Refugees, 1947–1967
This article explores the changing policy and legal frameworks governing migration from China to Canada from 1949 to 1967. The transition period between exclusion and universal access was characterized by slow and contested change, as the Canadian state persistently resisted pressure from community actors and religious groups to facilitate the entry of Chinese migrants, concerned as it was with the domestic stability of the nation. By exploring t…
Borders Transformed
Journal Article Borders Transformed: Sovereign Concerns, Population Movements and the Making of Territorial Frontiers in Hong Kong, 1949–1967 Get access Laura Madokoro Laura Madokoro Department of History, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 25, Issue 3, September 2012, Pages 407–427, https://doi.org…
Postcolonial Migrants and Identity Politics
Reviewed by: Postcolonial Migrants and Identity Politics: Europe, Russia, Japan and the United States in comparison ed. by Ulbe Bosma, Jan Lucassen, Gert Osstindie Laura Madokoro Postcolonial Migrants and Identity Politics: Europe, Russia, Japan and the United States in comparison Edited by Ulbe Bosma, Jan Lucassen and Gert Osstindie. New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012. What is a postcolonial migrant? What can be gained from thinking of postc…
Family reunification as international history
Building on the emerging scholarship that treats the history of global migration as a crucial aspect of international history, this article examines the little known 1973 family reunification agreement between Canada and the People’s Republic of China. The article contends that, despite its limitations, the agreement was an important milestone in the history of Sino-Canadian relations. Through a detailed micro-history, the article reveals the shi…
Building Sanctuary
Global Displacements and Emplacement
Transactions and Trajectories
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. As a result of these regulatory processes, the…
Handprints in the Archives
À partir des certificats d’exemption délivrés par le gouvernement de l’Australie de 1901 à 1958, l’article ci-après traite de la façon dont on peut utiliser les archives officielles de l’immigration pour rendre compte de la vie affective de l’État. Dans le cadre des efforts du gouvernement visant à dissuader les migrants asiatiques de s’établir en permanence en Australie, la loi de 1901 sur l’immigration a exigé des nouveaux venus qu’ils se soume…
Questioning the Dynamics and Language of Forced Migration in Asia
To what extent are different parts of the world exceptional when it comes to the history of forced migration and refugee experiences? For instance, is forced migration in Asia distinct from developments elsewhere? Or is forced migration in Asia part of wider processes of displacement and emplacement so characteristic of the modern world? Over the past few decades, the fields of refugee and forced migration studies have ballooned. Scholars in a wi…
Surveying Hong Kong in the 1950s
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…
Human Rights in Canada
Elusive Refuge
The 1949 Chinese Communist Revolution is a subject of inexhaustible historical interest, but the plight of millions of Chinese who fled China during this tumultuous period has been largely forgotten. Elusive Refuge recovers the history of China's twentieth-century refugees. Focusing on humanitarian efforts to find new homes for Chinese displaced by civil strife, Laura Madokoro points out a constellation of factors—entrenched bigotry in countries …
Dominion of Race
How has race shaped Canada’s international encounters and its role in the world? How have the actions of politicians, diplomats, citizens, and nongovernmental organizations reflected and reinforced racial power structures in Canada? In this book, leading scholars grapple with these complex questions, destabilizing conventional understandings of Canada in the world. Dominion of Race exposes how race-thinking has informed priorities and policies, p…
The Diplomacy of Migration
Effecting Change
Historic transformations took place in Canada’s refugee programs in the 1970s. Through the eyes of Michael Molloy, then director of Refugee Policy in the Department of Manpower and Immigration, this article explores the political climate that led to innovations in refugee admissions and resettlement efforts as they evolved from subjective, ad hoc affairs in the immediate post-war period to integral aspects of Canada’s immigration program by the l…
On future research directions
Building on the historiography surrounding existing studies of migration and settler colonialism in Canada, this article considers possible future research directions in these fields with a few to squaring epistemological differences in how the permanency and implications of human movement are understood
Peril and possibility
This paper provides an overview of the trajectory of research on immigration history, now migration history, in Canada over the past 50 years and highlights recent points of intersection with the newly established field of settler colonial studies. The article concludes by positing questions about the possibility of building on these points of intersection and dissension in future research in these fields
Exclusion by Other Means
The end of the so-called "Chinese Exclusion Era" in Canada (1885-1947) did not lead automatically to open and free migration. In the absence of overtly racebased discriminatory policies, Canadian officials in the early 1950s required migrants from the People's Republic of China to produce an additional set of costly medical exams. This paper explores the impact of this targeted medical discrimination against Chinese migrant families. It investiga…
Introduction
Introduction:The Historical Borderlands of Health and Mobility Lisa Chilton (bio), Laura Madokoro (bio), James Moran (bio), and David Wright (bio) RECENT MASS MIGRATIONS, fueled by nation-state instability, war, environmental degradation, and staggering global disparities in wealth, have pushed issues of border control and immigration to the top of international concerns. After two generations of forging larger, supranational institutions and pro…
From Citizens to Refugees”
Beginning in 1942, almost 22,000 Japanese Canadians were removed from their homes on the West Coast of British Columbia. While some citizens privately understood their situation as akin to other histories of displacement, they never discussed their situation publicly using the language of refugeehood or exile. By contrast, the Cooperative Committee on Japanese Canadians, which protested the federal government’s deportation of Japanese Canadians i…
Nothing to offer in return”
From 1975 to 1979, Canadian politicians and diplomats observed and discussed the possibility that a genocide was taking place in Cambodia. The situation was difficult to ascertain, however, given the limited history between the two countries and the deep isolation in which the Khmer Rouge regime operated after rising to power, as well as the Canadian government’s limited interest in international human rights until the late 1970s. It wasn’t until…
Loss and the City
The Stakes of Sanctuary
This introductory article lays out the objectives for this special issue of Migration and Society . In focusing on the stakes of sanctuary, both this introduction and the special issue concentrate on the ways sanctuary is inspired by, connected to, and symbolic of larger political and social processes. To see what is at stake, we outline some of the myriad possible meanings of sanctuary and examine the justifications given by the actors who offer…
Eurocentrism and the International Refugee Regime
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