SOSA 3285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Eurocentrism
24 Aug 2016
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Canadian culture and accept canadian values; and would not change canadian culture or values: after 1960s racially neutral point system, despite this, it has kept racialized people from moving to canada. Immigration offices have been very dramatically concentrated in white, Immigration officers retain authority to declare that someone will not adapt to. State as a neutral and regulations as neutral, social structures and context are not impacted = liberal pluralism: for all, the point of fail is enforcement/implementation. Population: what births are encouraged, who is allowed to immigrate, what do we do with refugees. Identities: concept of eurocentric european superiority, canada as a nation of immigrants, aboriginals: not immigrants and not conceptualized as canadians. Immigrants: european, white immigrants; other immigrants are not fully. National narratives: frontier myth: idea of virgin land, prisoners inside or outside nationhood, yes allowed to vote.
