SOC 2309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Interculturalism, Will Kymlicka, Ethnocentrism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2309
• Professor: Paul Kashiyama

Document Summary

Push factors cause people to want to leave their current location. Examples are: lack of freedom, war, famine, climate change, natural disasters and/or unemployment. Pull factors attract people to a new location. Examples are greater economic opportunity, availability of land, the reunion of families, the discovery of resources, access to technology and/or a preferred social/political system. These also work within a country consider the changing populations and work conditions across canada. Early 20th century had many elements of ethnocentrism. African-american farmers from the united states were turned back at the canadian border in the early 1900s because officials felt they were not suited to our climate". The chinese immigration act of 1923 forbade the entry of. Chinese people into canada law not repealed until 1947. Canada was unwilling to accept jewish refugees fleeing nazi. Some jewish refugees who did make it to canada during ww2 were put into prison camps along with german prisoners of war.