SOC 474 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Africville, Human Capital, Unemployment Benefits
5 Feb 2018
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1867-1962: canada selected its immigrants based on country of origin preferences. 1860-1900"s: immigrant numbers were low because of economic adversity. 1900"s canada starts promoting itself to europe as the last pure and available land. Move from tap on tap off to steady sailing approach. This meant that because of the low birth rate, immigrants maintained a steady flow to compensate for this. Immigrants have always and continue to be brought in to solve canadian problems. 1962: race and nationality eliminated from the criteria, instead being based more on human capital (a person"s ability to contribute to canada"s economy more people from asia and africa were able to immigrant). Deracialization occured because of a need for more cheap labour, ideological shift towards liberalism in canada, less people from. Europe began immigrating, and to facilitate international trade. Age of enlightenment: canada learned the dangers of basing practices on race after the holocaust.
