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Enemy Alien

• 1975 ----- color ----- 27 min ----- vhs
• The early Japanese immigrant who came to Canada expected to work a few years and return home. Instead, most stayed and fought their way through legal and social discrimination to become established. Japan's invasion of Manchuria generated anti-Japanese sentiment and all Japanese-Canadians were registered before Pearl Harbor. By 1941 some 23,000 Japanese-Canadians were relocated in camps, their property auctioned off. In 1944 the Department of Labor issued an invitation for voluntary deportation, later upheld by the Supreme Court, and 4,000 sailed for Japan. Public animosity slowly abated after the war. In 1949 Japanese-Canadians finally received full citizenship and voting rights.
• Topics: (Canadian Studies, Discrimination, History: Canadian)

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