{"product_id":"challenging-exile-eric-m-adams-9780774872843","title":"Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn September 1945, Canada proposed exiling Japanese Canadians to Japan, a country devastated by war. Thousands who had experienced internment and dispossession were now at risk of banishment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eChallenging Exile, \u003c\/i\u003eEric M. Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross detail the circumstances and personalities behind the exile. They follow the lives of families facing government orders that uprooted them from their homes, stripped them of their livelihoods and possessions, and proposed to exile them from Canada. And they analyze the court case in which lawyers and judges grappled with the meaning of citizenship, race, and rights in times of war and its aftermath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnfolding in a context of global conflict, sharpened borders, and racist suspicion, the story told in \u003ci\u003eChallenging Exile\u003c\/i\u003e has enduring relevance for our own troubled times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric M. Adams, Jordan Stanger-Ross\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0774872845\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780774872843\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of British Columbia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/19\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Eric M. Adams","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47087837806847,"sku":"9780774872843","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bf3ddf4e-0358-4746-a09d-34db681aec79.jpg?v=1753850947","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/challenging-exile-eric-m-adams-9780774872843","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}