SOCI 2050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Xenophobia, Chinese Head Tax In Canada, Informal Sector

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 2050
• Professor: Sylvia Bawa

Document Summary

Human displacement and refugees around the world: at the beginning of 2016, there were 63. 9 million people of concern to unhcr worldwide. Developing countries hosted 86 per cent of the (cid:449)orld(cid:859)s refugees u(cid:374)der unhc (cid:859)s (cid:373)a(cid:374)date. Myanmar: rohingya humanitarian crisis: canadian honorary citizenship to be revoked from the myanmar leader to show the outrage of the genocide of muslim minority. Refugees in/from africa (cid:862) u(cid:271)-saharan africa hosts more tha(cid:374) (cid:1006)6 per (cid:272)e(cid:374)t of the (cid:449)orld(cid:859)s refugee populatio(cid:374)(cid:863): since dec 2013, brutal conflict in south sudan displaced 4 million people. Most of the people fled to neighbouring countries. Terminology: forced migrations and non-forced migrations, nations and borders. Push & pull factors: wars and civil strife, natural disasters, socio-economic and political, personal safety. Imposed on all chinese men coming to canada to discourage immigration (: (1900), (1903) Chinese exclusion act (1923: the head ta(cid:454) did(cid:374)(cid:859)t see(cid:373) to (cid:271)e deterre(cid:374)t, so chi(cid:374)ese i(cid:373)(cid:373)igratio(cid:374) (cid:449)as prohi(cid:271)ited fro(cid:373) (cid:1005)9(cid:1006)(cid:1007)-