SOSC 1800 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Median Income, Unemployment Benefits, Market Failure

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1800
• Professor: Shirley Ramsarran

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Reading notes: chapter 8 immigrant, refugee, and aboriginal children". Changing immigration policy a brief historical overview. Canada came to exist as a nation in 1867, first pm = sir john a. macdonald and consisted of only nova scotia, new brunswick and small portions of what is now quebec and. Women/wives and children were discouraged from migration in the hopes that permanent communities would not be established. Desirable = entire family migrations encouraged, undesirable = men encouraged to migrate alone temporarily. Ethnic those who share ancestral origins, customs, beliefs. Racial/racialized a classification of people into categories based on real or imagined physical characteristics. 1960s, gov"t abolished most restrictions to immigration based on ethnicity or race. New emphasis: economic needs of country, which required increasing population. Immigration regulations of 1967 introduced new immigration system: merit points system = points for various qualifications (education, job, skills, knowledge of english or french_