COLLAB 3B03 Final: CHAPTER209202012

• School: Mohawk College
• Department: Collaborative
• Course: COLLAB 3B03
• Professor: Tulsie Raghubir

Document Summary

Person born overseas, with permanent residency in canada (refugees included) Family class but more importantly working class to tax. The quest to improve their lives, flee from political repression, and escape natural/man-made. The paradox of immigration disasters, has promoted migration. Solves problems: aging population, shrinking birthrate, skill shortage. Yet, policy is unfair, inefficient, hypocritical, subject to political divide. Unjust, prone to abuse, difficult to enforce (inefficient, unfair, sexist, discriminatory) Subject to political considerations than national interests ( elder immig sponsorship) Ineptness if overburdened immigration department (long waits 5-7 years for application status) Immigrants or descendants of immigrants (canadians who are native-born and new foreign born - Influx of non european immigrants and refugees immigrants/refugees, who are not of british, french or aboriginal ancestry) Immigrants: patterns and trends only 8% were not british or french. 1896 1914 3 million arrived to domesticate the west (central/eastern europe) 1981 from asia, africa, caribbean, and central america immigration by top 5 source countries;