SOCIOL 2E06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Vancouver Sun, Import Substitution Industrialization
21 Dec 2016
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Lecture 7 ch. 3: immigration & nation building. Early mercantile capitalism did not involve expansion and settlement. Rise of more advance forms of capitalism we see the rise of established colonies. Social policies emerging which supported expanding families. Main factor owing to population increase: fertility. Prior to wwii focus was on bringing in agriculturalists. Now this shifted to manufacturing and attracting skilled workers. Placing immigration within the context of race, class and gender. Taken from the vancouver sun, june 17, 1913, editorial pg. They are not an assimilable people we must not permit the men of that race to come in large numbers, and we must not permit the women to come in at all. Such a policy of exclusion is simply a measure of self-defensewe have no right to imperil the comfort and happiness of the generations that are to succeed us. 15,000 chinese admitted into canada to work on the railways.
