SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Chinese Head Tax In Canada, Habitual Residence
12 Feb 2018
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Lecture 13 - finishing gender, race and immigration. Law on the books versus law in practice. Section 46. 01(1)(b) of bill c-86: a person who claims to be a convention. The ultimate effect of the legislation, then, without ever mentioning the word. Race, is to control a particular dimension of the refugee population . Developing world refugees, the majority of them classified as visible minorities. (108) Linking of immigration to desirability reflects not only the idea that canada is a white nation (and especially, a white. British and french nation), but also the demands of the state for labor. Factors in changing to points system (1967: national embarrassment, bill of rights (1960, trouble attracting desirable immigrants, less desirable immigrants more docile. Charter -- includes multiculturalism as key feature of canadian identity. Not concerned with racism, discrimination, or social justice. Link to canadian funding and national identity.
