SOCIOL 2PP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Immigration Policy, Visible Minority
29 Nov 2018
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Approx 20 percent of our population is foreign-born. Majority of immigrants settle in our largest cities. Most significant shift: increase in visible minorities. The history of immigration policy in this country has been one of systemic discrimination. Changes to temporary live-in caregiver program (eliminated in 2014) Indigenous children are more likely than non-indigenous children to live in poverty. Indigenous children are more likely to live in lone-parent families. Indian act, reserve system, and residential schooling. Gender discrimination was inherent under the indian act. Residential schools: loss of cultural heritage, language, religion and spirituality. Immigration policy intended to increase our national population. High rates of immigration to canada in the first decades of the 20th century. Great depression and second world war immigration was low. When our government needed to settle the prairies in the first few decades of the 20th century our immigration policy favoured immigrants willing to farm.
