SOC218H1 Chapter : Immigration History - Koreans (reading)
Document Summary
Residential segregation and racial inequality: koreans and the japanese. Student turned immigrant: a limited number of independent immigrants settled in toronto in the late 1960s and early. A year later, it doubled. workers who became permanent residents. Japanese: demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. First documented immigration in 1877. Japanese never comprised a large percentage of the total canadian population. Japanese not evenly distributed across canada. Vancouver: wwii: profound impact on japanese canadians. Bc did not want them. 75% from west cost were either naturalized citizens or canadian- born. with them at all times. At that time of pre- multiculturalism , accepted view that majority of minorities should be assimilated. Become less visible and thus be geographically dispersed. Japanese agreed with the government. Small size of population attributed to wartime canadian government policy of dispersal and discouragement of living in concentrated areas. Japanese: dispersion as residential behaviour. Issei: born in japan and immigrated to canada (1st gen: 3 categories:
