Naturalising Subjects, Creating Citizens: Naturalisation Law and the Conditioning of ‘Citizenship’ in Canada, 1881–1914.
This article examines the evolution of naturalisation in Canada between the Canadian Naturalization Acts of 1881 and 1914. During this time, the meaning of ‘British subject’ transformed from signifying a permanent allegiance to the sovereign to a status that conferred ‘citizenship’. Despite claims t...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 1 - 22 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jan2017
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| Sumario: | This article examines the evolution of naturalisation in Canada between the Canadian Naturalization Acts of 1881 and 1914. During this time, the meaning of ‘British subject’ transformed from signifying a permanent allegiance to the sovereign to a status that conferred ‘citizenship’. Despite claims that naturalisation had become more modern, it was largely conditioned by understandings of racial community in the British Empire. |
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