SCWK 1710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Visible Minority, Black Canadians, Japanese Canadians
11 Jun 2018
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Chapter 10 racialized Canadian and immigrants
find new ways to help raise and welcome new Canadians.
-47% Muslim women hate crime in Canada in 2012, my be because of head covering.
Racism: the believe that there are human groups with particular (usually physical)
characteristics that make them superior or inferior to others.
Head tax: Chinese immigration head tax. between 1882-1884, 15,00o Chinese’s workers
were brought to Canada from china to work labor contracts on the pacific railroad. but a
series of laws were put in place to exclude or limit the number of Chinese and south Asian
immigrants. a head tax of 50$ in 1885 raised to 100$ in 1901 and 500 in 1904. this was
eliminated in 1923, but other laws were made with made it nearly impossible for Chinese
immigrants to bring their families to Canada and forced separation. Stephen harper
apologized for the head tax
Anti-semisitim
Internment: during ww1 and ww2 the Canadian government instituted a policy of interment
of members of ethnic minority groups whom it defined as “enemy aliens”. Japanese
Canadians were uprooted from their homes and held in similar camps during world 2.
Anti-black racism: racism towards back people, should not be minimized. Canada practiced
slavery until the nineteenth century. black Canadians were subject to legislation that enforced
segregated schools and communities and that limited property rights.
- not until 1953-54 did candida delete from its statues discriminatory laws that denied
black citizens the right to pursue formal education., respectable jobs, welfare assistance
and civil and humanitarian rights.
- the term “driving while black” emerged to describe the pattern of being stop by the police
and racial profiling
post-1976 immigration to Canada
- in 1961 over half the immigrants were from Europe. immigrants from Asia made up only a
small percentage of all immigrants arriving across Canada. but by 1990 Europeans only made
up 1/5 of all immigrations
-with the shift in immigration cam substantial increase in the so-called visible minorities in
Canada. maybe people believe the term “racialized minorities or “racialized groups is preferred
since these terms make clear
racisms can be overt: treating some people negatively because of their race or colour
covert, when society systematically treats groups according to some form of discriminatory
judgement
multiculturalism act: 1971 Canada became first Canada to adopt this as a policy.
in 1988 restated the 1971 act that states federal departments ensure equal employment
opportunity for ethic and racial groups.
-visible minorities/racialized groups population in Canada.
-race is not a biological concept but a social constructed one.
-visible minority supports a practice were ‘by non-white groups are categorized by almost solely
by race whereas white groups are not,
-Immigrations policy: prior to 1967, when important new immigration legislations came into
force, “nationality was the main criterion for admission to Canada.
-immigration was encouraged from white Europe and not the rest of the world.
front line social workers use innovative anti-racist approach that empathizes community
empowerment to combat hate crimes.
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Document Summary
Chapter 10 racialized canadian and immigrants find new ways to help raise and welcome new canadians. 47% muslim women hate crime in canada in 2012, my be because of head covering. Racism: the believe that there are human groups with particular (usually physical) characteristics that make them superior or inferior to others. Internment: during ww1 and ww2 the canadian government instituted a policy of interment of members of ethnic minority groups whom it defined as enemy aliens . Canadians were uprooted from their homes and held in similar camps during world 2. Anti-black racism: racism towards back people, should not be minimized. Canada practiced slavery until the nineteenth century. black canadians were subject to legislation that enforced segregated schools and communities and that limited property rights. With the shift in immigration cam substantial increase in the so-called visible minorities in. Race is not a biological concept but a social constructed one.
