SOC218H1 Chapter : Immigration History - Chinese (reading)
Document Summary
After 1947: enjoy civil rights of other canadians. 1967: changes in immigration policy allowed chinese to be admitted under same conditions as other groups. After 1967 and especially mid 1980s: new chinese- canadian community emerged. Geographic distribution and demographic characteristic. 1991 census (out of 27. 3 million canadians: 516,900 claimed chinese as mother tongue. Increase due to increase volume of chinese immigration after 1967 (immigration policy) than to natural growth. Most live in ontario and british columbia: bc, on: Most settled in metropolitan centres: ab, qb, other: 1991 mostly born outside of canada generation. For 1971, 1981 & 1991 by descendants of continuous flow of 1st generation immigrants. 1971: high level of language retention chinese as mother tongue, speak at home: characteristics of majority of foreign born. Readings: language used most often by 63% in 1981, 65% in 1991. 17% of the chinese whose mother tongue was chinese experience a language shift (claim that.
