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Description |
Count |
Notes |
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Canada-Vietnam to 1975 |
Canadian policy on Vietnam up to 1975.
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100 |
Years: 1945-1975
Canadian policies and government decisions before and during the Vietnam War that lead to an understanding of why Canada later adopted specific policies or approaches to the migration of Vietnamese people to Canada. Includes media reports and analysis.
Related Subjects: Canada-Vietnam relations after 1975 are included under Migration (up to 1997) orPolitics S-219 (2006-2015) or Politics current.
Subheadings
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Migration and Resettlement |
Canadian policy and events on Vietnamese migration and resettlement.
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110 |
Years: 1975-1997
Canadian policy, decisions, and events related to the migration of Vietnamese to Canada, including resettlement. Includes media reports and analysis.
Related Subjects: Does not include items containing historical negationism. See Canadian politics (S-219) and Canadian politics (current).
Immigration after 1997 is covered under Canadian politics (current) or Canadian diaspora.
Information that is not specifically Canadian is included here under the "Context" subheading.
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Canadian Politics (context) |
Harper's remaking of Canada's history and national identity.
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37 |
Years: 2006-2015
Descriptions of the political context that was motivating and enabling the efforts around bill S-219. The motivations indicate that S-219 had nothing to do with pandering to the Vietnamese community but was part of a larger political initiative aimed at changing Canada's identity to a "warrior nation".
Related Subjects:
Subheadings
| Stephen Harper |
| Stephen Harpers motivations and tools for changing Canada's national identity. |
| Changing national identity |
| Stephen Harper's actions and public responses, outside the context of bill-S-219. "The big picture" of which S-219 was a part. |
| Patterns |
| Norms for describing identity and history that were either violated or exploited by Harper. |
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Canadian Politics (S-219) |
The government develops bill S-219 and delivers the hostile messages.
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77 |
Years: 2008-2015
The political events that ended with the passage of bill S-219 in 2015. Includes government and non-government activities, media reports and analysis.
Related Subjects: Canadian politics (context) describes the ideology behind this, and Canadian Politics (current) describes the government follow-up and impacts on Vietnamese Canadians today.
Impact on Canada-Vietnam relations are covered under "Canada-Vietnam post-war".
Subheadings
| Government develops S-219 |
| Steps the government took to develop and pass parliamentary bill S-219. |
| Related Government actions |
| Instances where the Harper government sent a message to Canadians of Vietnamese origin about what S-219 means. |
| Non-government support |
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| Post-2006 "refugees" |
| Jason Kenney, wishing to make a point that Canada had admitted the "wrong" refugees, proceeded to arrange for the admission of more Vietnamese refugees beginning in 2006. He was very proud of his word and took every opportunity to recount it, but the CBC was not impressed. |
| Media commentary |
| Ambiguous or supportive media reports on the government's work. Note: Clearly critical items are recorded under "Calling out government". Reports that merely records a specific government step without comment, including government press releases, are included under "Government develops S-219". |
| Calling out government |
| Media reports that reveal the problems with the government's work on S-219 in an informed manner. Note that reports that are ambiguous and uninformed are included under "Media reporting". |
| Canada-Vietnam relations |
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Canadian Politics (current) |
On-going government and NGO efforts to maintain Harper's program.
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87 |
Years: 2015-
Government and NGO efforts to maintain, or to counteract, the historical negationism and hostility toward Vietnamese Canadians that was initiated by Harper's program and bill S-219. Covers the period from Harper's election defeat in 2015 until the present.
Related Subjects: The impact on foreign relations is covered under "Canada-Vietnam post-war."
Activities internal to the community, for or against, are covered under "Canadian Diaspora"
Subheadings
| Government negationism - JFD |
| Items that show government directly engaged in the flag raising ceremonies, the military memorial, and other parts of JFD. |
| Government negationism - other |
| Items that show government directly engaged in promoting the negationist history and marginalizing Canadians of Vietnamese origin through acts other than JFD.
Note: similar iterm occuring between 2006 and early 2015 are filed under "Canadian politics (S-219)". |
| Post-2006 "refugees" |
| Jason Kenney, wishing to make a point that Canada had admitted the "wrong" refugees, proceeded to arrange for the admission of more Vietnamese refugees beginning in 2006. He was very proud of his word and took every opportunity to recount it, but the CBC was not impressed. |
| Non-government negationism |
| Items that show non-government organizations directly engaged in promoting the negationist history to marginalize Canadians of Vietnamese origin. |
| Calling out negationism |
| The government and others get away with their steady stream of hostility toward Vietnamese Canadians because most Canadians cannot hear the dog whistles. This topic records the rare cases where they were called out for at least their negationism, if not the hostility. |
| Canada-Vietnam relations |
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Canadian diaspora |
The Vietnamese Canadian community today.
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65 |
Years: 1997-
Activities and analysis of the Vietnamese-Canadian community with emphasis on activities that are impacted by S-219 (supressing or expressing diversity). Includes academic and media reporting, as well as community activities.
Related Subjects: Where an activity includes personal involvement of Canadian politicians as representatives of Canada, that is reported under the political headings.
Subheadings
| Reporting and analysis |
| Studies, reports, and commentaries that touch on life in the Vietnamese community today, particularly if the deal with community politics. May be written by community members or outsiders. |
| Statistics |
| Reports on the Vietnamese community that are purely statistical. |
| Suppressing diversity |
| Political action originating in the community that is aimed at supressing cultural expression or programs that do not incorporate a political element that identifies the Republic of Vietnam. Note that this activity is conducted by a very small political faction that has been empowered by the Harper government and bill S-219. Includes responses of the people being pressured -- the pressure is rarely successful but it causes a lot of grief. |
| Expressing diversity |
| Cultural expression within the community that did not have to respond to pressure to incorporate political messages. This is rare and notable, given the pressures coming from both government and political factions, |
| International |
| Vietnamese Canadian involvement in international anti-Vietnam political activity. Note: This sort of activity is only of interest to a very small political faction and is not representative of the community. The point is to show that Harper's activities have enabled this sort of thing to move into Canada. |
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World Diaspora |
Vietnamese diaspora worldwide, since the migration period.
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34 |
Years: 1996-
Other reports about the Vietnamese diaspora outside of Canada.
Reports from other places, especially the US, can often lead to an understanding of what is happening in Canada because some of the diaspora politics is essentially run out of the US. In addition, Canadian media rarely reports on the Vietnamese community whereas the US media does. There are far more academic studies in the US.
While this material sheds light on some of the internal politics of the community, it must also be recognized that the internal makeup of various national diaspora differs as it was determined by local national policies during the migration years 1975-1997.
Related Subjects: Information about the migration period 1975-1996 in placed under the "context" section of "Migration and Resettlement".
Subheadings
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Vietnam |
Perceptions of Vietnam and the war from outside of Canada.
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18 |
Years: 1945-
The Vietnam war had nothing to do with why Canada responded to the refugee crises. Nevertheless, much of today's historical negationism in Canada is an attempt to connect the two events.
The perceptions of the war that Canada originally acted on were not unique to Canada. The negationists are following no credible lead with their revised narrative. These sources show support that observation with perspectives from Vietnam and around the world.
Related Subjects: Canada's perceptions, which drove Canadian policy and programs, is covered under "Canada-Vietnam to 1975".
Subheadings
| Nature of the Vietnam war |
| The nature of the Saigon regime and who was fighting it, from the Vietnamese and other points of view. |
| Vietnam post-war |
| Knowledgeable perspectives from other than the revengeful perspective of the former Saigon elite. |
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Collections |
Internet-based collections.
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20 |
Years:
Collections of relevant information that cross subject boundaries. Individual items within the collections that are cited will have separate, more specific, entries placed under the appropriate subject heading.
Related Subjects: There are a few additional specialized collections that have been placed under the appropriate Migration or Politics subject heading instead of here.
Subheadings
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Explanation of Subject Headings:
One or more subjects is applied to each item when it is added to the data base.
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Canada-Vietnam to 1975 |
| Canadian policy on Vietnam up to 1975. |
| Count: 100 |
Years: 1945-1975 |
Canadian policies and government decisions before and during the Vietnam War that lead to an understanding of why Canada later adopted specific policies or approaches to the migration of Vietnamese people to Canada. Includes media reports and analysis.
Related subjects: Canada-Vietnam relations after 1975 are included under Migration (up to 1997) orPolitics S-219 (2006-2015) or Politics current.
Subheadings
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Migration and Resettlement |
| Canadian policy and events on Vietnamese migration and resettlement. |
| Count: 110 |
Years: 1975-1997 |
Canadian policy, decisions, and events related to the migration of Vietnamese to Canada, including resettlement. Includes media reports and analysis.
Related subjects: Does not include items containing historical negationism. See Canadian politics (S-219) and Canadian politics (current).
Immigration after 1997 is covered under Canadian politics (current) or Canadian diaspora.
Information that is not specifically Canadian is included here under the "Context" subheading.
Subheadings
|
|
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Canadian Politics (context) |
| Harper's remaking of Canada's history and national identity. |
| Count: 37 |
Years: 2006-2015 |
Descriptions of the political context that was motivating and enabling the efforts around bill S-219. The motivations indicate that S-219 had nothing to do with pandering to the Vietnamese community but was part of a larger political initiative aimed at changing Canada's identity to a "warrior nation".
Related subjects:
Subheadings
| Stephen Harper |
| Stephen Harpers motivations and tools for changing Canada's national identity. |
| Changing national identity |
| Stephen Harper's actions and public responses, outside the context of bill-S-219. "The big picture" of which S-219 was a part. |
| Patterns |
| Norms for describing identity and history that were either violated or exploited by Harper. |
|
|
|
Canadian Politics (S-219) |
| The government develops bill S-219 and delivers the hostile messages. |
| Count: 77 |
Years: 2008-2015 |
The political events that ended with the passage of bill S-219 in 2015. Includes government and non-government activities, media reports and analysis.
Related subjects: Canadian politics (context) describes the ideology behind this, and Canadian Politics (current) describes the government follow-up and impacts on Vietnamese Canadians today.
Impact on Canada-Vietnam relations are covered under "Canada-Vietnam post-war".
Subheadings
| Government develops S-219 |
| Steps the government took to develop and pass parliamentary bill S-219. |
| Related Government actions |
| Instances where the Harper government sent a message to Canadians of Vietnamese origin about what S-219 means. |
| Non-government support |
|
| Post-2006 "refugees" |
| Jason Kenney, wishing to make a point that Canada had admitted the "wrong" refugees, proceeded to arrange for the admission of more Vietnamese refugees beginning in 2006. He was very proud of his word and took every opportunity to recount it, but the CBC was not impressed. |
| Media commentary |
| Ambiguous or supportive media reports on the government's work. Note: Clearly critical items are recorded under "Calling out government". Reports that merely records a specific government step without comment, including government press releases, are included under "Government develops S-219". |
| Calling out government |
| Media reports that reveal the problems with the government's work on S-219 in an informed manner. Note that reports that are ambiguous and uninformed are included under "Media reporting". |
| Canada-Vietnam relations |
|
|
|
|
Canadian Politics (current) |
| On-going government and NGO efforts to maintain Harper's program. |
| Count: 87 |
Years: 2015- |
Government and NGO efforts to maintain, or to counteract, the historical negationism and hostility toward Vietnamese Canadians that was initiated by Harper's program and bill S-219. Covers the period from Harper's election defeat in 2015 until the present.
Related subjects: The impact on foreign relations is covered under "Canada-Vietnam post-war."
Activities internal to the community, for or against, are covered under "Canadian Diaspora"
Subheadings
| Government negationism - JFD |
| Items that show government directly engaged in the flag raising ceremonies, the military memorial, and other parts of JFD. |
| Government negationism - other |
| Items that show government directly engaged in promoting the negationist history and marginalizing Canadians of Vietnamese origin through acts other than JFD.
Note: similar iterm occuring between 2006 and early 2015 are filed under "Canadian politics (S-219)". |
| Post-2006 "refugees" |
| Jason Kenney, wishing to make a point that Canada had admitted the "wrong" refugees, proceeded to arrange for the admission of more Vietnamese refugees beginning in 2006. He was very proud of his word and took every opportunity to recount it, but the CBC was not impressed. |
| Non-government negationism |
| Items that show non-government organizations directly engaged in promoting the negationist history to marginalize Canadians of Vietnamese origin. |
| Calling out negationism |
| The government and others get away with their steady stream of hostility toward Vietnamese Canadians because most Canadians cannot hear the dog whistles. This topic records the rare cases where they were called out for at least their negationism, if not the hostility. |
| Canada-Vietnam relations |
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|
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Canadian diaspora |
| The Vietnamese Canadian community today. |
| Count: 65 |
Years: 1997- |
Activities and analysis of the Vietnamese-Canadian community with emphasis on activities that are impacted by S-219 (supressing or expressing diversity). Includes academic and media reporting, as well as community activities.
Related subjects: Where an activity includes personal involvement of Canadian politicians as representatives of Canada, that is reported under the political headings.
Subheadings
| Reporting and analysis |
| Studies, reports, and commentaries that touch on life in the Vietnamese community today, particularly if the deal with community politics. May be written by community members or outsiders. |
| Statistics |
| Reports on the Vietnamese community that are purely statistical. |
| Suppressing diversity |
| Political action originating in the community that is aimed at supressing cultural expression or programs that do not incorporate a political element that identifies the Republic of Vietnam. Note that this activity is conducted by a very small political faction that has been empowered by the Harper government and bill S-219. Includes responses of the people being pressured -- the pressure is rarely successful but it causes a lot of grief. |
| Expressing diversity |
| Cultural expression within the community that did not have to respond to pressure to incorporate political messages. This is rare and notable, given the pressures coming from both government and political factions, |
| International |
| Vietnamese Canadian involvement in international anti-Vietnam political activity. Note: This sort of activity is only of interest to a very small political faction and is not representative of the community. The point is to show that Harper's activities have enabled this sort of thing to move into Canada. |
|
|
|
World Diaspora |
| Vietnamese diaspora worldwide, since the migration period. |
| Count: 34 |
Years: 1996- |
Other reports about the Vietnamese diaspora outside of Canada.
Reports from other places, especially the US, can often lead to an understanding of what is happening in Canada because some of the diaspora politics is essentially run out of the US. In addition, Canadian media rarely reports on the Vietnamese community whereas the US media does. There are far more academic studies in the US.
While this material sheds light on some of the internal politics of the community, it must also be recognized that the internal makeup of various national diaspora differs as it was determined by local national policies during the migration years 1975-1997.
Related subjects: Information about the migration period 1975-1996 in placed under the "context" section of "Migration and Resettlement".
Subheadings
|
|
|
Vietnam |
| Perceptions of Vietnam and the war from outside of Canada. |
| Count: 18 |
Years: 1945- |
The Vietnam war had nothing to do with why Canada responded to the refugee crises. Nevertheless, much of today's historical negationism in Canada is an attempt to connect the two events.
The perceptions of the war that Canada originally acted on were not unique to Canada. The negationists are following no credible lead with their revised narrative. These sources show support that observation with perspectives from Vietnam and around the world.
Related subjects: Canada's perceptions, which drove Canadian policy and programs, is covered under "Canada-Vietnam to 1975".
Subheadings
| Nature of the Vietnam war |
| The nature of the Saigon regime and who was fighting it, from the Vietnamese and other points of view. |
| Vietnam post-war |
| Knowledgeable perspectives from other than the revengeful perspective of the former Saigon elite. |
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Collections |
| Internet-based collections. |
| Count: 20 |
Years: |
Collections of relevant information that cross subject boundaries. Individual items within the collections that are cited will have separate, more specific, entries placed under the appropriate subject heading.
Related subjects: There are a few additional specialized collections that have been placed under the appropriate Migration or Politics subject heading instead of here.
Subheadings
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Data base last updated: 2023-10-05, 537 items, 302 quotations, 151 photographs.