SOCI 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Convention Relating To The Status Of Refugees, System On A Chip, Remittance
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Immigration and demographic diversity in canada: immigration and race / ethnicity. What role does immigration play in contemporary canadian race / ethnic relations: some basic terminology. International migration: mvmt of people across an internationally recog. st. border. International migrant: a person who lives outside of his/her country of birth: permanent residents. Economic migrant: someone who chooses to move in order to improve future prospects for himself and his family. Internal migration: internally displaced persons, some basic facts. 250 million int"l. migrants (2015: 3% world population, 1 out of every 33 persons in the world = migrant, temp. labour workers = 3% world"s labour f. 14-02-2017: women: 49% of temp. labor migrants. 65. 3 million forcibly displaced worldwide (2015: 21. 3 million refugees (1/2 < 18 y/o, 10 million stateless people, 107,000 resettled refugees. Top sending countries: somalia (1. 1 million, afghanistan (2. 7 million, syria (4. 9 million) Top hosting countries: turkey (2. 5 million, pakistan (1. 6 million, migrant populaion, 2010.
