Description

Detention, deportation, and the prevention of family reunification. In Episode 2 we chat about the lives of the few South Asian women allowed into Vancouver between 1905 and 1920. We also chat about that time Bhag Singh got the community to burn their British military service medals.

The Nameless Collective Podcast is a Canadian history podcast hosted by Naveen Girn, Milan Singh & Paneet Singh - a trio of historians, researchers and explorers who travel to the archive each week to rediscover history, solve mysteries, and provide a space for the untold stories of Vancouver's South Asian community.

Episode References:

• Basran, G. S. (1993). Indo-Canadian families historical constraints and contemporary contradictions. Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 339-352.
• Dua, E. (2007). Exclusion through inclusion: Female Asian migration in the making of Canada as a white settler nation. Gender, Place & Culture, 14(4), 445-466.
• Johnston, H. J. (2011). Jewels of the Qila: The Remarkable Story of an Indo-Canadian Family. UBC Press.
• California, San Francisco Passenger Lists, 1893-1953. Harnam Korh, 1911. San Francisco, California, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1410 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

The Nameless Collective Podcast Season 1 is a Canadian History podcast produced by JugniStyle.com and Manjot Bains, with additional sound engineering by Devinder Singh. The show is hosted and researched by Naveen Girn, Milan Singh and Paneet Singh in Vancouver, Canada. Music: A Melodic Shade of Blu ft. Keerat Kaur, by WiseChild.

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