MHR 600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Higher Education, Rosalie Abella, Visible Minority

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 600
• Professor: Rupa Banerjee

Document Summary

Race and ethnicity in the workplace: history: historically, canada relied upon western europe, especially great britain, as major supplier of immigrants. In the two decades after end of wwii, canada maintained policy of favouring immigrants from united states, united kingdom and other european countries. In the 1960s, major changes in the canadian immigration policy placed emphasis on educational and occupational skills as criteria for selecting immigrants. Occurred because canada wanted to compete and strengthen their gdp by screening people for certain skills advance the industrial movement. 82% of new immigrants arriving between 2006 and 2011 were racial minorities. The te(cid:396)(cid:373) (cid:862)visible minorities(cid:863) created in 1982 and received official recognition in 1984, when it part of an equality report. Judge rosalie abella identified this group as constituting one of the four designated categories in the royal commission report on equality in employment, along with aboriginal peoples, women and people with disabilities.