SOCWORK 1A06 Lecture Notes - Xenophobia, Intercultural Competence, International Monetary Fund

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SOCWORK 1A06
• Professor: Sandra Preston

Document Summary

Racism is influenced by the global context of racism; this has impacts on the rest of the world. Self-centered way of thinking way that they see the world. Cultural imperialism: your culture is the only proper way of seeing the world you impose it on others, your culture is the culture that everyone should have. Colonialism: taking over other nations/people for the purposes of exploitation. Un"s convention relating to the status of refugees. Canada has agreed to take in people who have been defined in an unliveable convention. There are strict rules and you often have to prove that you are a refugee. There is always a quota / cap of the amount of people that are accepted in every year. You would have to prove the above, but many may not have the information to prove their cases. Safe countries mean that they are identified as countries that treat their citizens properly (defined by.