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Canadian Immigration Historical Society President Mike Molloy will be giving a series of lectures on the 1972Ugandan Asian refugee movement at universities in Ontario during the month of October 2012.
The 1972 Uganda Asian Refugee movement was the first test of Canada’s “Universal” immigration policy as applied to refugees. The talk will examine the reasons behind General Idi Amin’s decision to expel Uganda’s small but dynamic Asian community and the Trudeau government’s reaction to the expulsion within a new Immigration and refugee policy framework. It will describe how a small, hastily assembled team went to Kampala in September 1972 and moved over 6000 refugees to Canada by the 8 November deadline imposed by the Ugandan government. Finally it will examine the impact of the Ugandan experience on the refugee resettlement provisions of the 1976 Immigration Act and on the subsequent Indochinese refugee program of 1979-80.
These items offer our readers an opportunity to reflect on what aspects of Canada’s immigration story were of public interest at the time.
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