SOC 474 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Immigration Policy, Ukrainian Canadians, Japanese Canadians
5 Feb 2018
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Factors that shaped the policies and practices of immigration. Class: canada didn"t want the surplus of unemployables. Gender: women of questionable moral character exclusion of prostitutes and people who eloped. Physical and mental fitness: the diseased were denied entry. Race and ethnicity: hierarchy of desirability : british and white people at the top, Japanese/asians (considered hard workers), black populations at the bottom. Led to the discouragement of black populations to canada on the grounds that they would be. Son with downsyndrom denied because he would take up too many resources. Blacks who came as british loyalists faced blatant discrimination even as free people. Canada sought ways of discouraging or denying access to black people such as inability to adjust to canadian society or medical reasons. Black people found their way to canada through the underground railroad. Black ppl were restricted in their ownership of property and unable to secure education for their children, established segregated schools.
