GEOG 122 Lecture 20: GEO 122 MAR 3RD LECTURE NOTES
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Lecture 20 - multicultural societies: cultural diversity in the global north. The extent of cultural diversity from immigration in the global north, esp in large cities. Cultural diversity & governance, a huge issue in the 21c. Immigration follows business cycle, during recession immigration decreases. 50s covered 1% of total population were immigrants. Dominant groups to enter canada: philippines, china, india, us, uk etc. 1967 immigration act replaced an older policy of european preference, and until about. The most explicit of these older policies was the head tax against chinese-origin migrants introduced in 1885 and steadily increased to a person in 1903. It was superseded by the chinese immigration act (1923 - 1945) that virtually excluded. Chinese residents until it was repealed in 1945. The asian share of immigrants to canada has risen from less than 10% in 1966 to 50% in 2012, the european share has fallen from over 40% to 10%
