SOWK 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Temporary Foreign Worker Program In Canada, Racialization, Tongues Untied
24 Oct 2016
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Key terms: immigration, newcomers, refugees, resettlement, refugee claims process, family reunification, racialized groups, canadian charter of rights and freedoms, multiculturalism as policy, disproportionate disadvantage, human rights commission. Refugees: syria is only the latest refugee crisis, and this does not include genocides that meant millions who have died without the opportunity to become refugees, many times canada has been a world leader in assisting refugees. At other times, canada has joined other nations in ignoring these situations. What is immigration: the movement of people from one location to the other due to several reasons. Push and pull factors: push factors; are factors that drive people out of a particular destination or country. Include; economic hardships, high levels of poverty and unemployment and war: pull factors; are factors that attract people to a particular destination or country. Include; economic incentives, opportunity for social mobility and educational development.
