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Genocide, culture, law : Aboriginal child removals in Australia and Canada
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia

1998
Document > Thesis
Creators
Jago, Jacqueline Marie
Description
"This thesis makes the legal argument that certain histories of aboriginal child removals in Canada and Australia, that is, the residential school experience in Canada, and the program of child institutionalization in Australia, meet the definition of 'genocide' in Article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide"--abstract.

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Holding Library
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia
Statement of Responsibility
by Jacqueline Jago.
Publication Information
Vancouver, BC : University of British Columbia
Physical Description
vi, 220 leaves ; 28 cm
Notes
Thesis (LL.M.)--University of British Columbia, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 204-220).
Contents
Introduction and summary -- Chapter 1: Truthtelling and the subject -- Chapter II: The residential school -- Chapter III: Child removals in Australia: the stolen generations -- Chapter IV: Interest, concealment, benevolence: Aboriginal subjectivity in settler law and culture -- Chapter V: The removal of Aboriginal children as a genocidal practice.
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