WGS335H5 Lecture 1: Lecture 1- January 5th, 2017
7 Jan 2017
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Canadian stories of women who crossed the canada border-the textbook. Majority of immigrant cross borders in search of better opportunities, social opportunities. Borders as seen as something prohibiting you from getting off, seeking in, a barrier. Frontier is way more positive, hopes for opportunity, a way to get in. Immigration stories keep repeating 200 or 400 years ago keep repeating. Assimilation/integration: how much to give up to settle. Migration is a process not an event it doesn"t end with getting a job, learning the language, getting the passport and citizenship documents it is a lifelong process. Context= set of circumstances that surround an event. Turtle island is what indigenous people called canada. Colonialism-thanksgiving day is when columbus discovered north america. Settlers who came created a structured society on land that really wasn"t there. Refugee is forced to flee, meaning they will die or prosecuted.
