SOC210H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cultural Capital, The Province, Meritocracy
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Points of prejudice: education-based discrimination in canada"s immigration system. Immigration policy in canada, like that in many other countries, openly discriminates against the foreign-born on the basis of their education. On the one hand, canada"s immigrant points system works explicitly and deliberately to exclude less educated and skilled foreign born individuals from ever becoming permanent residents and citizens of canada. Canadian politicians at all levels of government speak without apology of aiming to bring the world"s best and brightest talents to their country, province or municipality. The points system: using education to govern immigration to canada. The use of education and skill in selecting immigrants to canada has a long history. The government of canada passed an amendment to the immigration act in 1919 that instantiated a mandatory literacy test for immigrants that would keep out the illiterate and uneducated. In 1919, it was aimed in particular at blocking immigrants from countries of southern.
