Associate Professor, Department of History, Carleton University Disclosure statementLaura Madokoro receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Government of Ontario's Early Researcher Award Program. Read more: Migrants deserve the right to make decisions about where they live Old anti-migrant playbookBy turning their attention to the Canada-U. As was the case for Chinese migrants beginning in the 1880s, migrants are being exploited for partisan, nationalistic purposes