GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Cultural Diversity, Essentialism, Sleepwalking
Document Summary
Cultural diversity and governance, a huge issue in the 21st century history of immigration: In canada (and elsewhere) selective/discriminatory/racist policies up to 1945. After 1967 revisions to law and immigration is race- blind in canada, instead 3 main entry tracks: economic, family, and refugee status. In europe, post-colonial migration: we are here because you were there eg pakistani"s, west-indian"s as replacement workers in the uk, north africans to france. Very large movements of people, 250,000 a year to. Canada; illegal migrants a total of 10-12 million in us. Major issue of the fertility deficit (people aren"t having as much kids, negative birth rate) But immigrant fertility converges to native-born norm in. 2nd generation by 2025 all population growth in canada likely derived from immigration. Population is required for labour, and for tax-payers to support welfare state governance of immigration. Originally acted like assimilation; eg the melting-pot (in. Us) and anglo- or franco- conformity in canada 1960"s.
