GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Cultural Diversity, Business Cycle, Biculturalism
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Multicultural societies: cultural diversity in the global north. Are they related to multiculturalism: canada: principal reference point. 1990: canada arrives at new immigration policy, will accept million of immigrants per year, regardless of business cycle. 1967: a profound transition occurred from immigration policy favoring euro migrants: 3 legs: Economic migrants, scoring points that will make them more successful in the labour market. It was superseded by the chinese immigration act(1923-1945) that(like it"s us equivalent) virtually excluded chinese residents until it was repealed in 1945. In western europe, post colonial migration": from south asia, caribbean to britain, from na to. Replacement labour principally; dirty, dangerous, difficult jobs, but also recruited labour: london transport, german car plants. Governance of immigration: how to integrate immigrants into the nation state, assimilation the original strategy in canada(cf. Bilingualism is endorsed, but multiculturalism is declared in parliament in 1971. Canada has the most lefislative support for multi of any country: multiculturalism act(1988),
