SOC100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Immigration Policy, Equal Protection Clause, Racialization
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Real-life sociology chapter 8: racialization and the construction of social marginality. When people think of canada, they usually think of multiculturalism. Multiculturalism: political and social policy that promotes ethnic tolerance and diversity in communities. Canada comprises diverse indigenous groups such as first, nations, inuit and m tis, the descendants of early fur traders from diverse cultural backgrounds and more recent immigrants. Immigrants add to canada"s diversity as they stem from 200 different ethnic and racialized groups, speaking over 200 different languages. Roughly 1 in 5 canadians were born outside of the country, and at 21%, canada has by-far the highest foreign-born populations of any country. When immigrants and refugees gain canadian citizenship, they become canadian in every sense of the word. The charter of rights and freedoms (a bill of rights entrenched in the constitution) establishes equal rights for all canadians, guaranteeing equal treatment before and under the law, and equal protection and benefit of the law without discrimination.
