By Anne van der Pas
The history of Canadian citizenship is a complicated one; it was not until after the Second World War that it emerged as a distinct legal category separate from British subjecthood…
About Anne
Anne van der Pas is a doctoral student in History at the Graduate School of North American Studies of the John F. Kennedy-Institute in Berlin. Her research interests include First Nations studies, Canadian nationalism and themes of citizenship and identity. In her dissertation project, titled (In)voluntary Enfranchisement: The Institutionalisation of Indigenous Identity in Canadian Governmental Policy, she investigates the role of enfranchisement within the larger federal Canadian Indian policy and its function as a mechanism of naturalisation of settler colonialism.
