SOC218H1 Chapter Notes -Jat Sikh, Khalistan Movement, Exogamy
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Transnational nature of relationship must engage multiple sites and scales. This paper captures the diverse transnational nature of immigrant networks between. India (punjab and delhi) and canada (vancouver, toronto) and reveals the social and spatial basis of recursive relations between these diverse geographical sites: india-canada immigration and its social and spatial characteristics: creating a. Transnational field: the history of indian immigration to canada. Early relations with india were characterized by immigrant exclusion, illustrated most obviously by the 1908 continuous passage order-in-council. Early immigrants from india were mainly jat sikh sojourners from punjab, drawn to bc to work in the province"s resource industries. Due to the restrictive immigration policies and anti-asian sentiment evident in early 20th century canada, community formation was marked by close intraethnic social interaction and segmented integration. By the 1950s, as immigration rules eased and permitted limited family immigration from non-european sources, the population slowly developed, resulting in a community dominated by immigrants from punjab.
