SOAN 2290 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Impermanence, Individual And Group Rights, Institutionalized Discrimination

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2290
• Professor: Cecil Foster

Document Summary

Debate: rethinking belonging in a postmodern era: the politics of citizenship. 85% of migrants who settle in canada end up taking the oath of citizenship (right of passage) so. Canada is at the forefront in popularity for citizenship. Until 1947 (the citizenship act) there was no such thing as a canadian (just british subjects living in. Canada)- obligated to advance british culture and language and conduct themselves as british. Citizenship act: citizenship- ignoring distinctions between and foreign-born and british-born. Integrated all canadians regardless of where they were from or who they were (bold move for this era, when difference determined inferiority and resulted in exclusion) Act: redefined what canadian was canadian obligation to canada. Reciprocal exchange of rights and duties connected individual to the state: state protects citizens rights and freedoms: rights of equality, democracy, ability to return to canada. , legal rights, language rights, freedom of religion, expression, association and assembly.