SOCI 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Foreign Worker, Skilled Worker, Canadian Identity
Week 11- immigration and inequalities
Canada: an immigration society
• Society of immigrants (descriptive) versus an immigrant society (normative)
• Four criteria of an immigrant society
o Must be policies and principle in place
▪ Balance economic immigration
▪ Balance family
▪ Balance humanitarian
o Programs in place to help settlement of immigrants
o Immigrants must be entitled to certain rights
▪ Citizenship
▪ Permanent residence
o Immigrants are embraced as an asset
▪ Embrace it as a Canadian identity
▪ In Germany immigrants are not viewed as an asset
• Where does Germany fall short and What criteria should be added to assess whether
Canada is truly an immigration society?
o Integration is low in Germany
▪ While Canada tries to assimilate them into society
▪ No expectation of prominent residence
▪ Less of a humanitarian stance
▪ Immigrants not seen as an asset but a nuisance
o Embracing culture is Canadian culture because there is a mix of cultures
o Customized services for immigrants
o Immigrant satisfaction
• Caada’s iigratio treds
o Historically trends of immigration are unstable
o Hae’t alays ee a iigratio outry
• 1869 immigration acts excluded
o Criminals
o People with diseases
o Immigrants that were less likely to assimilate
• 1910 immigration acts
o reinforced policy from 1869
• 1947 polices
o stated who can come and go
• after WWII Canada wanted
o British and Americans
o people who could work in labour
o sponsored families from European countries
o refugees on the international level
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