GEND 1006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Japanese Canadians, Social Capital, Unfree Labour

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Social justice: focus on canada - january 30, 2017. Consider the effects and even the economic bene ts of these policies which often enshrine cheap or free labour: develop a clearer understanding of the notion of systemic discrimination and systemic barriers. The reading relies implicitly on a very traditional western understanding of the family. Please describe that family. not that families are like this but this is the family structure that gets idealized. Canadian state privileges heterosexual, nuclear, married, have some children, male bread-winner" (pulic sphere), female bread-maker" (private sphere), middle class family, same race couples. When the immigrants didn"t map onto this they were treated differently. Typically considered to be expert in private sphere. Male: car, yard work, hand man skills, sports. Typically considered to be the expert in the public sphere. Expectations that are still present in some situations but are slowly evolving past this.

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