Diversity in Adversity

My project focuses on an under-examined aspect of Japanese Canadian World War II forcible relocation -- health care. I argue that health care provisions for Japanese Canadians, or, the Nikkei, was as varied as the diverse communities which they were lived in during this period. I argue that place therefore shaped health care and that it was, contrary to what government documents record, varied and unequal. I emphasize the importance of various source types in revealing the diverse experiences of the Nikkei during this period through a case study of one Nikkei physician's self-published memoir, Dr. Masajiro Miyazaki. This study demonstrates how Canadian historians must work towards recognizing a diversity of experience in order to create a better understanding of the past.
Diversity in Adversity

Letitia Johnson

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta

Health care provisions for Japanese Canadians, or, the Nikkei, was as varied as the diverse communities in which they were lived.

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