SOCB47H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Hybridity, Dream Act, Neoliberalism
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There"s no number in canada but the estimation is lower than the us one. Around 500,000 to 1 million given that canada"s population is smaller than us" population and the only land border canada has is with the us while the us has a land border with mexico. A lot of undocumented migrants from mexico or south. The last time undocumented immigrants were granted immigration status was in 1986 irca policy. Irca allowed certain people who had requirements to apply for regularization and were able to access permanent residency, which excluded many people. Us producing a lot of displacement and dislocations across the world. In the 1990s, immigration responsibility has a neoliberal lens. Immigrants need to take responsibility for their actions. This criminalized a lot of immigrants made it difficult for them to achieve permanent residency in the us. The dream act was a proposed way to have or to grant permanent residence to certain immigrants.
