HTHSCI 2RR3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Exclusion, Social Inequality, Social Isolation
16 Nov 2017
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Economic: entrepreneurs, skilled labour/professionals, coming to canada specifically to work, often sponsored by an organization that wants their skills. Family class: sponsored to join, people who have family in canada and are sponsored to join by family members. Refugees: government assisted: government determines which countries will be funded for initial settlement in canada, refugee claimants (asylum seekers): individuals that come to canada and claim refugee status. Immigrant vs refugee = choice vs fleeing danger, need for protection. Four aspects of social exclusion: systemic forms of discrimination based on civil society through legal sanction or other institutional mechanisms (i. e. post 9/11 and racial profiling throughout the course of time) Failure to provide the needs of particular groups (i. e. income security, housing, language services) Individuals: communities (with common bond, geographical communities, characteristics of social exclusion occur in multiple dimensions and are often mutually reinforcing. Inability for some subgroups to fully engage in canadian life due to structural inequalities.
