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This study explores how Filipino Hansen's disease patients confined to the Culion leper colony engaged with government authorities over food-related issues during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Food rations are understudied themes in the history of the Culion leper colony. Earlier scholarship on Culion focused on the segregation policy, medical practices, and general conditions. Recent work highlighted the theme of resistance evident in the patients' flight from the island, protests against the ban on marriage and cohabitation, and petitions for rights as citizens. A few considered agitations and other actions by patients in response to the food situation.In this study, I argue that food was a platform upon which colonial authority was contested in a myriad of ways and forms. Patients' reactions were directed not only at poor quality and insufficient quantity of rations, but also at the American colonial state's policy that exiled them to the island of Culion. Many of them practiced self-sufficiency to address basic food needs and to provide financial assistance to the families they left behind. Others actively participated in committees to improve the distribution of rations.The study of food supply and rations in Culion offers insights into the engagement between Filipino patients of Hansen's disease and colonial administrators. It demonstrates varying forms of patients' resistance and exercise of agency within a restrictive setting and in a colonial context. In some instances, patients' agency was enabled by authorities, thereby complicating the story of their engagement. Consideration of their diverse and multifaceted practices facilitates a fuller understanding of how Filipino Hansen's disease patients dealt with government officials during the American colonial period.KEYWORDS: Culion, Hansen's disease, resistance, agency, food rations

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"Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control provides the most detailed account of the virginity testing controversy in the late 1970s, and demonstrates that this abusive practice, which was endured by South Asian women for more than a decade, was part of a wider culture of mistreatment and discrimination that occurred within the immigration system authorized by the state. Using recently opened government documents, Smith and Marmo offer a unique insight into this matter and uncover the extent to which these women were scrutinized, interrogated and subject to physical examination at the border. Combining cutting edge criminological theory and historical research, this book proposes that the contemporary British immigration control system should be viewed as an attempt to replicate colonial hierarchies upon migrants in the post-imperial era. For this reason, the abuses of human rights at the border became a secondary issue to the need of the post-imperial British nation-state to enforce strict immigration controls"--

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In this article, I analyze the concern over the concept of "certainty" in relation to Aboriginal rights, treaties, and economic prosperity in the province of British Columbia, Canada. In the context of treaty negotiations in British Columbia, certainty requires that the Aboriginal rights of a First Nation be legally transformed into a set of treaty rights. This transformation moves these rights from a state of "uncertainty" to a state in which they are "certain," and is said to encourage investment in resource industries like forestry and mining. I argue that treaty negotiations are a form of governmentality that helps regulate a population, mediates between Aboriginal‐rights claims and the demands of global capital, and produces effects of state sovereignty. I also argue that the focus on undefined Aboriginal rights as the source of economic uncertainty fails to acknowledge the lack of certainty inherent within capitalism.

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dramatis Personae; Introduction; Prologue; Chapter One A Little Gem; Chapter Two We Will Attack Them; Chapter Three Press On; Chapter Four They Never Run Too Fast; Chapter Five My Arm is Broken; Chapter Six Don't Trouble Yourself About Me; Chapter Seven I Thought You Were Killed; Chapter Eight An Old Familiar Face; Chapter Nine The Shade of the Trees; Chapter Ten Epilogue; Appendix I Controversies Surrounding the Event; Appendix II Building the Stonewall Image; Appendix III An Interview with Author Mathew Lively; Bibliography; Index.