SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Ice Cream Headache, Nanny, White Privilege
14 Feb 2013
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Gender immigration: immigration case study: the gradual decline of citizenship rights and labour conditions of domestic workers in canada. Come to canada for some work and then go back home. There have been significant variations of the status and domestic workers based on race and ethnicity; Regulations have increased and the pay has decreased: british domestic workers as daughters of the empire and. Mothers of the race (late 1800s and early 1900s) Domestic workers tended to be white canadian women. Rural communities; work done by single women, and were treated reasonable well. Daughters of the empires and mothers of the race. Generally working class women who had no other options in britain. Fairly poorly paid and subject to a great deal of work; quite privileged compared to the ones came later. Finland supplied large number of domestic workers. Their white privilege allowed them to access things. Central and eastern european workers: had to pay their own fair over to canada.
