SOCB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Indian Act, The Immigrants, Foreign Worker
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Socb30 lecture 6 february 9th 2016 immigrant integration and. State matters: exercises military and administrative power (laws & bureaucracy) States monopolize legitimate power of violence: they are independent power terrains, beyond coercive military and police power, rather administrative and definitive power through planning. Nation-state: territorial sovereignty and administrative governance strengthened by rational authority (subject to contestation) Basis of authority is rational rule of law. Brings together the effect of power and people. Citizenship: establishes boundaries and content of state responsibility to citizens. Defines the population the state owes protection and prosperity. Defines the rights and obligations of a citizen in a national. Citizenship: not universal, historically contingent and contested political community. Declares that all citizens under the law are equal, but it should not be confused with its content at a moment in time. From race-based criteria: white canada (up until. To one imagined nation of many ethnic groups (1947 citizenship act)
