SOSC 1130 Lecture Notes - Safety Valve, Failed State
2 Feb 2013
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Canadian immigration policies during the great depression: political deportations. Context: political economic considerations in canada shaped canadian immigration policies in late 19th century and beginning of the 20th. This process aims at the unification of the people within the state so that it remains politically stable and viable in the long run. 2011-11-10: creates perception that system works, canadian response to immigration revolves around them needing to maintain control. 1920 immigration numbers create due to business demands of cheap labour. 1925 railways agreement allow non-desirable ethnicities to enter canada: during great depression, door begins to close for immigrants. Repatriation returning to your native land: immigrants returning voluntarily, some cases actually returned voluntarily, but in reality most were deported but government called this repatriation. Conventional view: deportation rarely occurred in canada, few cases were based on mistakes of letting immigrants in, then correcting mistakes or based on character flaws of immigrants.
