{"id":9572,"date":"2020-03-10T23:58:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T23:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/?p=9572"},"modified":"2020-03-10T23:58:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T23:58:16","slug":"lost-canadians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/news\/lost-canadians\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Canadians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In early February, the Canadian Studies Center and the <a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/humanrights\/\">Center for Human Rights<\/a> hosted Don Chapman, author of <em>The Lost Canadians: A Struggle for Citizenship Rights, Equality, and Identity (2015)<\/em>. The book\u00a0provides a detailed account of his efforts at the front of the Canadian citizenship rights movement.<\/p>\n<p>During his talk, Chapman discussed citizenship in Canada and the complicated laws that have contributed to a community of \u201cLost Canadians.\u201d He focused on the complex Canadian laws that have left many without their rightful citizenship. Chapman described how particular groups\u2014women, Indigenous peoples, Chinese\u2014have been disproportionately affected.<\/p>\n<p>Chapman\u2019s own citizenship was revoked when he was just six years old due to an outdated law that restricted citizenship rights. When Don Chapman\u2019s father became an American citizen, Chapman lost his own Canadian citizenship\u2014even though his mother was Canadian. As a result of his own experience, Chapman took on a battle with the Government of Canada to change Canada\u2019s discriminatory laws. He has spent decades as an activist and advocate for \u201cLost Canadians\u201d, pushing for updated and revised legislation and helping to restore citizenship to countless Canadian. He has been successful is winning Canadian citizenship for thousands of individuals including Rom\u00e9o Dallaire, Rachel Maddow and many in our own UW community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early February, the Canadian Studies Center and the Center for Human Rights hosted Don Chapman, author of The Lost Canadians: A Struggle for Citizenship Rights, Equality, and Identity (2015). The book\u00a0provides a detailed account of his efforts at the front of the Canadian citizenship rights movement. 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