POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: H-1B Visa, Economic Migrant, Arguin
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Immigration: the movement from one century for at least a year. Currently there are 200 million immigrants worldwide, or 3 percent of the global population. In itself, this number tell us nothing as we have to break the category down into various parts. Voluntary: skilled and low-skilled labourers, highly educated service sector worker, and family members. Forced: those expelled and those fleeing war, persecution, economic depression or environmental collapse. Distinguish the settler countries of canada, the us and australia from the postwar, "accidental" european countries of immigration. In canada/us/australia, migrants originally came not merely to improve their personal lot but to transplant a culture, a cluster of institutions, and legislative practices from the united kingdom (settler vs. immigrant) All of them followed basically the same trajectory, which was: Rapid immigration in the late 19th century from europe. In the us, the biritsh, then german, then irish/italian, then canad/uk, empire gave britons an edge into the post-1945 period.
