LABRST 1A03 Lecture 33: Feb 27
6 Feb 2016
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Stereotypes: economic, political, social,medical, racialization, restrictive policies, international influence, barriers to black migration. Mainstream movement: labour market concerns, exclusion & discrimination. Radical movement: socialist party of canada (spc, industrial workers of the world = iww wobblies. Immigrants had lots of hardship, short term employment. Great deal of hostility in society, canada was a country of immigrants that hated immigration. Canada saw itself as british, wanted to stay being a white british country. In westdale, hamilton, jews were not allowed to own land. Hostility businesses weren"t accepting certain people. Private charities wouldn"t give support to certain people. Stereotypes: social concerns: bigger city had concerns about social breakdowns, crimes, etc. were blamed on immigrants, economic concerns: immigrants lowered the overall wage rate. Racialization: saying those characteristics are inherit in the group: eg. Polish ppl have a lower standard of living, and they will work for less: eg. Chinese were seen as having a lower standard of living.
