SDS220R Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Child Migration, Canadian Identity, Promised Land

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Social Development Studies
• Course: SDS220R
• Professor: Kristina Llewellyn

Document Summary

Children have always moved or been moved due to tragedy to their caregivers, escaping from adults, and seeking opportunities to better their lives. Early interest in child migration in mid-19th and early 20th century canada came from philanthropists (often known as the child saving movement: child savers worried that children lacked proper familiar roots, especially new comer children. Without roots in anglo-celtic canada these children were considered possible causes of disorder. Today, there are hundred of thousands of child soldiers, millions of homeless children in big cities, millions of refugees that are internally displaced. Ca(cid:374)ada(cid:859)s (cid:396)espo(cid:374)se has (cid:448)a(cid:396)ied: positive integration services, detention and deportation. Migration depends on: causes, age, race, gender, disability have been, and continue to be, important factors in determining who goes, what happens, and who survives. Fostering out children to and within early canada. Industrialization causes massive social transformation that affected families, schools, and child welfare.