GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Cultural Diversity, Essentialism, Allan Gregg
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Cultural diversity & governance, a huge issue in the 21c: history of immigration: in canada (and elsewhere) selective/discriminatory/racist policies to 1945. After 1967 revisions to law immigration is race-blind in canada, with 3 entry tracks: economic, family and refugee status. In europe, post-colonial migration: we are here because you were there" eg pakistanis, Very large movements: c 250,000/yr to canada; illegal migrants total of c 10-12m in us. Major issue of the fertility deficit; but immigrant fertility converges to native-born norm in 2nd generation. By 2025 all pop"n. growth in cda likely derived from immigration. Pop"n required for labour, and for tax-payers to support welfare state: governance of immigration, originally assimilation; melting-pot (in us) and anglo- or franco-conformity in cda. B & b royal commission & multiculturalism declared in 1971. Three stages of multi in cda: demographic, ii) symbolic, iii) structural: rights/responsibilities, cf.
