Renisa Mawani: 2 books
Across Oceans of Law
The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
In 1914 the British-built and Japanese-owned steamship Komagata Maru left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying 376 Punjabi migrants. Chartered by railway contractor and purported rubber planter Gurdit Singh, the ship and its passengers were denied entry into Canada and two months later were deported to...
Colonial Proximities
Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Encounters among Aboriginal peoples, European colonists, Chinese migrants, and mixed-race populations generated a range of racial anxieties that underwrote colonialism in BC. By focusing on these points of contact, this book forges critical links between histories of migration and dispossession. The...