SA 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Meritocracy, Internalized Racism, Institutional Racism
23 Nov 2018
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Related to development of the nation-state (citizenship, passports, borders) Story of immigration is largely the story of building canada. Pre-confederation (1791-1867) focus on settling the land, encouraging people to move west. Populating canada: started slowly (1867-1896) due to competition for immigrants with usa, climate, transportation challenges, between 1896-1914, immigration levels reach all-time highs due to geopolitical factors, agricultural factors, and transportation (railway) Wwi, the depression, and wwii immigration levels fluctuated up and down. Post-war to 2000s- consistently high levels of immigration intake. Push factors motives for emigrating out of a country of origin: economic reasons (differential wage gaps, joblessness, escape from poverty, natural disasters (famine, war, disease, drought, persecution, ethnic cleansing, genocide. Pull factors motives for immigrants to a new country: economic reasons (more and better jobs, religious and political freedom, education and lifestyle, family reunification. Retirement migration (snowbirds) support and opposition supporters for immigration argue economic needs (labour supply: value of cultural diversity.
