ARB 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Coptic Orthodox Church Of Alexandria, Westernization, Arab Canadians
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He was the founding director of the prairie metropolis centre for research on. Immigration, integration and diversity, a research network that organized and sponsored immigration-related research across the prairie provinces for many years. Currently professor emeritus of sociology at the university of alberta, he was appointed in 2014 as a member of the order of canada for his "contributions as a scholar and volunteer building a more inclusive society. " Arabs, or more specifically, syrian-lebanese immigrants, began to arrive in canada in small numbers in 1882. Their immigration was relatively limited until 1945, after which time it increased progressively, particularly in the 1960s and thereafter. The designation of arab in the census can be unclear because it can refer to a geographic region, an ethnic group or a language group and the arab classification includes people who are not included elsewhere. In 2006 there were 86 135 canadians who claimed arab origin and 31 375 who claimed.