Michael Molloy
Michael J. Molloy was one of the Canadian immigration officials who assisted in the 1972 Asian expulsion from Uganda. Working under the direction of Roger St. Vincent, Molloy was second in command at the Kampala office during the time of the expulsion. Molloy has also served as the President of the Canadian Immigration Historical Society, which was responsible for gathering the materials found in the Ugandan Asian Collection.
This oral history covers Molloy’s background working for Manpower and Immigration Foreign Service and the lead up to the 1972 Asian expulsion. It also includes a detailed account of the major issues faced at the Kampala immigration office during the three month period before the expulsion deadline, from September 6 to November 8, 1972.
The interview concludes with a brief overview of how the Ugandan Asian Collection was assembled before arriving at Carleton University in 2012. This oral history was conducted at Maxwell MacOdrum Library, the home of Archives and Research Collections at Carleton University. Present for this interview was also Shezan Muhammedi, PhD Candidate in History, Migration and Ethnic Relations at the University of Western Ontario.