SOSC 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Absorptive Capacity, Social Class, Trade Union
29 Aug 2016
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Canada"s response to asylum seekers in the 1930s: the jewish case. Canada closed doors for people to respond to the economic and political crisis. Canada"s refusal to allow jewish asylum seekers was a result of negative nation building. Jewish people were desperate to be safe from ethnic policies of canada. Canada did not allow any jewish people to land on the lands of canada. Why did canada closed the doors to jewish in 1930s. The answer is based on the following topics: closing the doors to refugees, lack of absorptive capacity: Canada"s closing doors has to be understood as canada"s general response. Canada does not have the capacity to absorb immigrants at the time. Absorbing capacity is more than economic dimension. It has a social and political dimension as well. Not everyone fits into the nation state"s vision and project for the future. Who was allowed in canada: they got rid of grassroots questioning (politically active workers).
