POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Religious Conversion, Unemployment Benefits, Foreign Worker
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Immigration is a movement from one country for at least a year. Currently there are 200 million immigrants worldwide, a three percent of the global population. Voluntary: skilled labourers highly educated, service sector workers, family members: wanted (united states, canada and australia), these countries need immigration to survive. Immigration is part of national building process in these countries. Institutional: unwanted in european countries, immigrants came temporarily or as a by-product of mass immigration. Forced: expelled and those feeling war, persecution, economic depression or environmental collapse. There was massive immigration to united states and the pattern was british, Every group said that the following group could not assimilate however they were all proven wrong. This rapid immigration lasted until ww1 and then these countries closed the immigration doors to the 1945 and then opened the gates of immigration to even more ethnicities of immigrants. It is extremely hard to immigrate to united states.
