GGR336H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Religious Persecution, Coolie, Shoeshiner
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Process by which people are placed in racial hierarchy. Prior to 1850"s mostly northern european mostly rural. 1850"s-1870"s irish waves or immigration mixed rural/urban. 1870"s southern and eastern european urban. New cultural practices: music, art, family lives. U. s. & canada: anti-chinese immigration head tax and block. 1924 immigration act: quotas on groups northern europeans privileged. 1908 canadian policy to forbid immigration from anything other than country of citizenship/birth. 1914 sikh british subjects from india attempt to immigrate to vancouver via hong. Not allowed to set foot in canada, sent back to india. Labour driven immigration hiring agents and chain migration. Main argument: settlement in toronto occurred according to patterns that were internal (fellow-villages, etc. ) and external (places of work, chain migration) Memoir about her early life in new york city. New york city"s melting pot : early settlement. American control: northern immigration: 1847 onward. Italians, jews, greeks, syrians, poles, etc: jewish immigration.