Lec #10: Immigration Policy and racism in canada

Question 1

What are the 3 reasons as to why canada receives immigrants?

Answer 1

1) Economic- labour industries
2) Humanitarian- something happens outside of canada so we accept refugees b/c they have no home
3) Political reasons- in other countries, the gov’t is not stable resulting in violence, lack of basic rights etc. So canada lets immigrants in b/c they have applied for political asylum

Question 2

what are the 5 major immigrant categories in canada?

Answer 2

• Refugees
• Economic Immigrant
• Family class
• Temporary foreign workers
• Non-status immigrants

Question 3

why were the europeans favoured as immigrants by the canadian gov’t?

Answer 3

B/c it was perceived that they were able to better assimilate to the canadian cultures and values than non-euorpeans

Question 4

what factors acted behind choosing non-white immigrants?

Answer 4

• the non-white immigrants/temporary workers were permitted to migrate into canada as the canadian employers needed cheap labour
• however the workers were not welcomed as permanent citizens

Question 5

What is the Negro Problem?

Answer 5

• Black people could not live in the same neighbourhood as the white people
• Preventing african americans from moving to canada

Question 6

What influenced in changing the post- WWII immigration policy of canada?

Answer 6

• the post WWII international political environment played a role in tempering officially sanctioned discrimination w/in the immigration system.
• Government policies that were grounded on explicitly racist assumptions about the inferiority of groups of people were discredited both politically and scientifically