SOC 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Contact Hypothesis, Social Forces, Glass Ceiling
28 Jun 2018
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Topic 5 part 2
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First Nation’s peoples
Aboriginal Peoples Today:
- 2016 census reveals this pattern:
- total: 1, 673, 785
- North American Indian (Status and Non-Status): 977, 230
- Metis: 587, 545
- Inuit: 65, 025
- Growth rate is 4X the rest of population
- Together: about 4.76% of population of Canada
Characteristics:
- Most disadvantaged of all Canadians in terms of income, employment, housing, nutrition,
and health
- Longevity is substantially less
- Highest infant mortality rate and disease
- Limited educational opportunities
Racial profiling in Canada
Aboriginal Canadians:
- Adults incarcerated more than 6 times more often than anyone else
- Institutional discrimination- police make decision to arrest, courts make decision to
prosecute
- 2.85% of pop and 17% of federal prison inmates
- Manitoba- 61% of all inmates
- Alberta- over 35% of all inmates
- Sask= over 70% of 16 yr. old male Treaty Indians can except to go to prison at least once
Chinese Canadians
- Beginning in 1850s, Chinese men (wives and children were not allowed to come) came to
work on the Canadian Pacific Railway
- Wok was hard and fatal on occasion
- Nearly 17,000 men came
- Were subjected to prejudice and discrimination
- Dangerous work, many died
- Problem emerged when men wanted to bring family
- Head tax, on family members they wanted to bring to disincentive
Race and ethnicity in Canada
- 1885 Chinese Head Tax initiated
- 1907 Boat with Japanese and Sikh immigrants sparked anti- Asian riots and the Asiatic
Exclusion League
- 1914 Komagata Moru
- 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act
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Document Summary
2016 census reveals this pattern: total: 1, 673, 785. North american indian (status and non-status): 977, 230. Growth rate is 4x the rest of population. Together: about 4. 76% of population of canada. Most disadvantaged of all canadians in terms of income, employment, housing, nutrition, and health. Adults incarcerated more than 6 times more often than anyone else. Institutional discrimination- police make decision to arrest, courts make decision to prosecute. 2. 85% of pop and 17% of federal prison inmates. Sask= over 70% of 16 yr. old male treaty indians can except to go to prison at least once. Beginning in 1850s, chinese men (wives and children were not allowed to come) came to work on the canadian pacific railway. Wok was hard and fatal on occasion. Head tax, on family members they wanted to bring to disincentive. Problem emerged when men wanted to bring family. 1907 boat with japanese and sikh immigrants sparked anti- asian riots and the asiatic.
