"Shovelling out the "Mutinous
Political Deportation from Canada before 1936
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4793208 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara Roberts (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Pages | 77 |
| Publication date | 1986-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Labour / Le Travail (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0700-3862 • E-ISSN: 1911-4842 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/25142674 |
| OpenAlex | W1581767454 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
DEPORTATION HELPED TO relieve employers, municipalities, and the state from the burdens of poverty, unemployment, and political unrest, by getting rid of workers when they became useless, surplus, or obstreperous. But this is only half of the equation: apparently straightforward economic imperatives were also profoundly political. Agitators and radicals challenged a social and economic order (and a political system) that immigration policy served. Radicals were designated as undesirable not so much by legislation as by employer blacklists and complaints, the surveillance networks of the industrial and Dominion police, the militia, the RCMP, and United States intelligence, and a certain anti-labour tradition in immigration policy. Deportation preserved the status quo. Immigration officials at times lied to conceal their activities; they broke their own laws, and consistently abused their power, operating virtually outside the knowledge and control of Parliament, the courts, and the general public. LES DEPORTATIONS AIDERENT a soulager les employeurs, les municipalites et l'Etat du fardeau de la pauvrete, du chomage et des agitations politiques en les debarassant des travailleurs devenues inutiles ou trop bruyants. Mais il ne s'agit ici que de la moitie de l'equation: les imperatifs, de toute apparence simplement economiques, etaient profondement politiques. Des agitateurs et des radicaux contesterent l'ordre social et economique ainsi que le systeme politique servis par la politique d'immigration. Ceux qui professaient des idees radicales etaient qualifies d'indesirables non tant par la loi que par les listes noires et les plaintes des employeurs, les reseaux de surveillance de la police, de la Milice, et de la Gendarmerie Royale, de l'information americaine ainsi que par un certain prejuge professe par les responsables de ta politique d'immigration contre le travail organise. Les deportations preservaient le statu quo. Les officiers d'immigration ont parfois menti pour dissimuler leurs activites; ils ont enfreint leurs propres lois et ont constamment abuse de leur pouvoir en agissant pratiquement a l'insu et en dehors du controle du Parlement, des cours de justice et du public en general
Criminology · Deportation · Immigration · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Law
Quebec, Haiti, and the Deportation Crisis of 1974
Gender and Immigration Law
Governing Mentalities
The imperial race and the immigration sieve
Rejecting “Misfits
Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States? Political Articulation and the Canadian Comparison, 1932 to 1948
The Emancipatory Praxis of Ukrainian Canadians (1891-1919) and the Necessity of a Situated Critique
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2016 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |