The Long Road of Assimilationist Policies in Canada: An Irremissibly Damaged Coexistence
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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1352-0200
Ana Romano Galdó
Abstract
The birth of the Confederation of Canada in 1867 marks the birth of a political subject, under the title of Dominion or Confederation, which, territorially, will conclude its formation in 1949, but politically, it will not reach maturity until 1982, when promulgated the Constitutional Act of Canada. From its beginnings, the Canadian State tried to merge this social mosaic and give it an increasingly Western and European character. In order to achieve its purpose, it used the application of unjustified policies of forced assimilation that would not cease de jure until 1997, although they remained in force de facto until a long time later. The objective of this work is to assess and determine the results of these assimilationist policies by Canada for more than a century, placing them closer or further away from dramatic crimes, that is, from genocide or cultural genocide
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Canada, Aboriginal, Residential Schools, Sixties Scoop, Genocide, Cultural Genocide
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