POLS 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Jus Sanguinis, Jus Soli, Visible Minority

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 212
• Professor: Jessica Moreilli

Document Summary

Pols 212 week 12-lecture 1: immigrants and racialized canadians. Media is important in shaping public discourse around many issues that are impacted by race (ex. The refugee crisis-the images of the suferings of the refugees put out by the media helped change public opinion on the issue) Who can live in the borders of the canadian state and what are the rights enitled with living in the canadian borders. Staisics canada put out a report of the visible minoriies in ontario. Some groups of people were deined by geographic ideniies (ex. South asian category), while other groups were solely deined by race (ex. Knowledge is a source of power in the way it organizes people into groups. The organizaions of these groups are taken into account by the state. There are poliical decisions at play with the geographic and racial ideniies presented for people to idenify as in gov"t documents.