GGR339H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: New Glarus, Wisconsin, Solvang, California, Arthur De Gobineau
29 Sep 2016
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Lecture 6: ethnic congregation and the creative city . Low birth rates coupled with labour shortage in second half of 20thc resulted in increasingly liberal immigration policies in many developed countries. This has led to the official construction of multicultural social regimes which have sought to make a virtue out of necessity, in the promotion of equality of esteem for all constituent elements without their obligatory acculturation (tunbridge 2008) International migration and the multicultural city in canada: an historical overview. 13m immigrants to canada over course of 20thc. Peak years 1912-13 settling of prairies (500,000 in 1913 alone); but. Economic depression of 1920s-30s and world wars (1914-18; 1939-45) slowed immigration. High levels of immigration from 1950s on, during economic boom. Highest sustained immigration period during 1990s, 2. 2m (220,000/yr) Pre-1939: britain, ireland and nw europe (germany, sweden) plus significant wave from eastern europe (prairies: restrictions on immigration from asia. Post-1945: southern/eastern europe plus increase from asia, esp. with.
