SOC322H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Moral Panic, Visible Minority, September 11 Attacks
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Trump on immigration and crime: say that they"re more likely to be criminal so more people agree and dislike them. Open canada: openness vs closeness, open borders vs closed borders, canada is a model for openness. Immigration has been central to nation building and social development in canada. Unfortunately, immigrant lives in canada often feature struggle, discrimination, and a variety of vexing social problems. While the focus of this chapter is on immigration and immigrants, it is important to recognize at the outset the place and contributions of substantial numbers of non- immigrants to canada. The colonization of north america by france and britain in the seventeenth century brought the first immigrants to canada. Fueled by a dramatic growth in the numbers of non-european countries the ethno- racial diversity absorbed by canada during a relatively short period of time has raised a number of challenges.
