WS102 Lecture Notes - Institutionalized Discrimination, Class Discrimination, Visible Minority
26 Mar 2013
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*immigration history and experiences are often studied as problems of race and ethnicity, but the gender of the immigrant has been overlooked. *even in very early immigration history, the white (british and french) female immigrant was explicitly recruited for her childbearing capacity, the white male (british) immigrant was recruited for his nation-building capacity. *relatively few women have been able to immigrate to canada as immigrants in their own right. *racial minority women (including immigrant women) in canada are clustered in job ghettos. *few government resources are allocated to female immigrants. This means reduced access to language acquisition, education resources, and job programs, which leaves her in marginal work, at the mercy of her employer. *canadian immigration history is marked by preference for the white, english-speaking, *yet canadian women workers, their corporate employers, and the can government itself have all relied on poor immigrant women from underprivileged areas to take on underpaid work as skilled and quality nannies and domestics.
