SOC210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ethnic Enclave, Visible Minority
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Immigration is a tool for host countries to accumulate capital. Immigration policies mechanisms to supply labour for employers. Factors that influence immigration: demographic conditions (e. g. declining birth rates, ageing populations, humanitarian needs (e. g. refugee crises, human rights protections, organizational pressures (e. g. trade unions, nation-building (e. g. israel) Economic immigrants: largest category of immigrants in canada, e. g. skilled workers, self-employed, live-in caregivers, and provincial/territorial nominees, partially assessed through a points system based on age, education, language proficiency, and canadian work experience. How do societies respond to diversity: assimilation: immigrants and their children discouraged from retaining homeland culture, multiculturalism: immigrants and their children encouraged to retain ancestral culture. Different kinds of assimilation: segmented, behavioural, structural. The subordinate minority groups eventually integrate into the social, economic and political life of the dominant majority group. Immigration contact between different groups competition over limited resources .
