SOC 502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Big Business, European Canadian, Main Source
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Soc502 week 9 march 14: canadian immigration policy 1600s 1961, the point system 1962 present, violence in immigrant families. Selection of immigrants has always been done on racist lines; even today immigration selection is somewhat racist. We"ve moved from a period of blatant racism to institutional racism. )f you don"t produce required workers, you get them through immigrants. Canadian immigration policies have been about a balance two contradictory ideas. Purpose of immigration is to fulfill the labor of companies, immigrants are brought in for the crappy jobs that the superiors do not want to do, it is still like that today. By 1880 the population of canada was indigenous, the immigrant population was. British, irish, scottish, french and continental europeans (germans). The immigrants lived in atlantic provinces like ontario and quebec, it was in the late. 1890s there was immigration and settlement in prairies.
