SOCI 3660 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Chinese Head Tax In Canada, Dua, Heteronormativity

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 3660
• Professor: Amber Gazso

Document Summary

This film is within the context of the 80s. In terms of the settlement of immigrants, they settled in great numbers in the 1800s and 1900s, largely from the us and uk. There was a great demand for immigrants in terms of labour: development of the railroads. There was also, interestingly enough, a demand for domestic workers. The demand for domestic workers was also from particular countries, such as england. Immigration is inextricably associated with nation-building, and thus, there are racial undertones. The demand for domestic workers were white women from england, scotland, and wales. Settled mostly in western canada in large numbers. By about the 1920s, there was an increase in the number of immigrants. Explicit immigration policies: chinese head tax: these racial undertones to pulling bodies in. During the first world war and the time of depression, the number of immigrants decreased.