SOC311H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Creative Class, Dependency Ratio, George J. Borjas
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Canada-us differences in migration debates: a tale of two countries. 01/30/2018: us debates, border control, enforcement, undocumented populations, similar (cid:494)settler-society(cid:495) history and tradition, security and trump(cid:495)s muslim ban (cid:494)brain waste(cid:495, expansion, increase numbers, religious accommodation, refugee reception, canadian debates: Reasons for canada-us difference: geography, history, difference due to us border with mexico, us as colonial power. It was heavy on reform, low on control and produced more undocumented immigration than before: public opinion. Immigration relatively popular in canada: stability over time, support for immigration and multiculturalism maintained over, trump advocates (cid:494)merit-based(cid:495) immigration assuming his border wall with mexico. Canadian exception to widespread populist reactions against immigration will work decades: uk: growing restrictiveness of immigration policy, resistance to syrian refugees, Brexit vote: netherlands: abandonment of multiculturalism, rise of anti-immigrant politicians (ex. Geert wilders: france: civil unrest in immigrant-intensive suburbs (banlieue), rise of national. Front: us: chronic unresolved debate over undocumented mexican migration, trump wall,
