Triumph of Citizenship

Patricia E. Roy is professor emerita of History at the University of Victoria and a member of the Royal Society of Canada.

• Introduction1 A Civil Necessity: The Decision to Evacuate2 Adverse Sentiments beyond the Coast3 "Repatriation" to Japan and "Non-Repatriation" to British Columbia4 The Effects of the War on the Chinese5 Toward First-Class Citizenship for Japanese Canadians, 1945-46 Beyond Enfranchisement: Seeking Full Justice for Japanese Canadians7 Ending Chinese Exclusion: Immigration Policy, 1950-67ConclusionEpilogueNotesIndex

Patricia E. Roy's two previous books on Anglo-Canadian treatment of the Japanese and Chinese in British Columbia, […] have established her reputation as a leading authority on the subject. The present study extends her inquiry into the tumultuous years of the Pacific War and up to 1967. […] no one has marshalled as much evidence from the political arena and the media to capture the cacophony of the expressed views and to discern the evolving direction as Roy has in this book. Her research in public archives and newspaper collections yields a most comprehensive assemblage of the voices of government leaders and politicians, and also of local reactions not only across the country but also community by community across British Columbia. - Wing Chung Ng, University of Texas at San Antonio (International History Review)