SOWK 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Temporary Foreign Worker Program In Canada, Jenny Kwan, Human Rights Commission

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SOWK 2100
• Professor: Susan Braedley

Document Summary

And this does not include genocides that meant millions who have died without the opportunity to become refugees. Many times canada has been a world leader in assisting refugees. At other times, canada has joined other nations in ignoring these situations. Refugees camps are both communities and nightmares. The movement of people from one location to the other due to several reasons. Push factors; are factors that drive people out of a particular destination or country. Include; economic hardships, high levels of poverty and unemployment, and war. Pull factors; are factors that attract people to a particular destination or country. Include; economic incentives, opportunity for social mobility and educational development. The term newcomers is used to refer to a wide variety of people in canada. Immigrants: family class-you already have family in canada, economic class. Refugees: sponsored- when a group takes responsibility for a refugee, asylum seekers- they got in somehow and are asking to stay.