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SUMMARY: Law\, Empire and the Institutional Conditions of Sikh Citizenship 
 in British Columbia\, 1900-1947
DESCRIPTION: Until 1947\, Sikh and South Asian populations were denied lega
 l citizenship in Canada. This talk pursues the specific forms of Sikh citiz
 enship that emerged and transformed through the workings of gurdwaras\, lum
 ber mills\, and diasporic presses\, especially as they figured in the polit
 ical landscapes of empire and racial nationalism.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p><em>This event is in collaboration with th
 e <a href="https://histories-cluster.ubc.ca/">Interdisciplinary Histories R
 esearch Cluster</a>\, and is co-sponsored by the <a href="http://www.harish
 arma.org/">Dr. Hari Sharma</a></em><a href="http://www.harisharma.org/"> Fo
 undation\,</a> <em>and the <a href="http://asia.ubc.ca/">Department of Asia
 n Studies</a>.</em></p><h4>Abstract</h4><p>Until 1947\, Sikh and South Asia
 n populations were denied legal citizenship in Canada. Yet\, archival recor
 ds gesture to the complex institutional apparatuses that mediated the polit
 ical status of Sikh communities in British Columbia before and after they w
 ere enfranchised. This talk pursues the specific forms of Sikh citizenship 
 that emerged and transformed through the workings of gurdwaras\, lumber mil
 ls\, and diasporic presses\, especially as they figured in the political la
 ndscapes of empire and racial nationalism.</p><h4></h4><h4>Presenter</h4><p
 >Bonar Buffam\, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Irving K 
 Barber School of Arts and Sciences at UBC’s Okanagan Campus. He is currentl
 y working on a SSHRC-funded project on the changing political circumstances
  of religious minorities in Western Canada.  His research has been publishe
 d in Theoretical Criminology\, Identities\, Sikh Formations\, and Cultural 
 Studies.</p><p> </p><h2><a href="https://sppga.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/u
 ploads/sites/5/2019/10/2019_11_14_Buffam_PosterA4-768x1086.png" target="_bl
 ank" rel="noopener">Event Poster</a></h2>
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