Sean Mills, “Quebec, Haiti, and the Deportation Crisis of 1974” (Histoire sociale / Social History,94.3, September 2013). In “Quebec, Haiti and the Deportation Crisis of 1974,” published in the Canadian Historical Review, September 2013, Sean Mills offers us a lively account of the controversy that erupted in 1974 over the proposed deportation of hundreds of

Jordan Stanger-Ross, “Telling a Difficult Past” Kishizo Kimura’s Memoir of Entanglement in Racist Policy” BC Studies, no 181, Spring 2014. In this well-written and tightly argued article, Jordan Stanger-Ross tells the story of Kishizo Kimura, a Japanese Canadian who was involved in the liquidation of the property of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Through

Lisa Chilton, “Sex Scandals and Papist Plots: The Mid-Nineteenth-Century World of an Irish Nurse in Quebec”. Journal of Women’s History 27(3), September 2015. Taking the perspective that gossip and public scandal open a window into “social politics” of mid-nineteenth century Quebec, Chilton deftly traces the religious, class, national, and gendered tensions of empire through the life and career of

Laura Ishiguro, “Growing Up and Grown Up … in Our Future City” : Discourses of Childhood and Settler Futurity in Colonial British Columbia. B.C. Studies, Summer 2016. In this fascinating article, Laura Ishiguro argues that children were essential to a “settler futurity” that was “the very foundation of settler colonialism”.   Illustrating how British child migrants to BC

Eric M. Adams & Jordan Stanger-Ross, « Promises of Law: The Unlawful Dispossession of Japanese Canadians ». Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 54:3 (Spring 2017). This article examines ‘a largely forgotten legal promise’, and in doing so, it offers a rich analysis of the law, bureaucracy, and the archives as multi-vocal sites of contestation.  Exploring the promise and violation of the

Yukari Takai, “Recrafting Marriage in Meji Hawai’i, 1885-1913”, Gender & History, 31, 3 (2019), 646-664. This carefully crafted article is a model for intersectional historical analysis of gender. Disrupting familiar accounts of migrant families and households, Takai traces the strategic deployment of marriage and divorce by rural emigrants from Japan as they set out across the

Laurie K. Bertram, “‘Eskimo’ Immigrants and Colonial Soldiers: Icelandic Immigrants and the North-West Resistance, 1885”. Canadian Historical Review, Volume 99 Issue 1, Spring 2018, pp. 63-97. The committee found that Bertram’s article was an important and timely intervention on the topic of immigration and settler colonialism in Manitoba. This fascinating article complicates our understanding of the

Christopher Crocker, “What We Talk about When We Talk about Vínland: History, Whiteness, Indigenous Erasure, and the Early Norse Presence in Newfoundland,” Canadian Journal of History vol. 55, 102 (2020): 91-122.  The brief Norse presence in Newfoundland has led to many economic opportunities within provincial tourism and cultural heritage industries but has also served to uphold harmful

Jelena Golubovic, “Beyond Agency as Good: Complicity and Displacement after the Siege of Sarajevo.” Journal of Refugee Studies (2021): 1-20.  Jelena Golubovic’s article compels the reader to reconsider forced migrants’ agency to include those who are displaced as a result of their ethnocultural group’s complicity in acts of violence. Existing scholarship has largely focused on the construction