SOCI 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Human Capital
Week 11- immigration
Immigration experiences
• Settling down
o Immigrants are concerned about equality, participation and acceptance
• Moving up
o Income earning among new immigrants
o Institutional structures, racism, protectionism, local labour market conditions,
lack of human capital
• Fitting in
o Intergenerational conflict
▪ Conflicting demand and pressures from parents and host country
o Parents sometimes feel alienated from culture and language
o Transitional stress
o Immigrants may resort to enclaves
o Immigrants tend to settle in cities, primarily Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver
Creese: what colour is your English
• Processes of immigration is simultaneously racialized, gendered, sexualized and classed
• The imagined nation of Canada is discursively patrolled through accents
• Accents shape perceptions of language competency and may provide rationale for
disentitlement in employment or full participation in civil society without troubling
liberal discourses equality
• How do accents have material and figurative consequences?
o Difficulty in the labour market
o Less sense of belonging
▪ Being othered
▪ Feel of exclusion
▪ People from Asia/Africa more likely to feel this than people who are
british/australian
o Individual level
▪ Getting corrected
▪ People think people with accents are not competent
▪ Bullying
▪ Difficulty in making meaningful relationships
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