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1
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Canadian policy on immigration.

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Greatest impact on history, economy, identity, multicultural identity, and regional diversity.

2
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Why is Canadian immigration important?

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By 2030, deaths > births — from then on, immigration as only growth factor for population.

3
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There is growing ___ ___ due to immigration policies.

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Ethnic diversity.

4
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What are the 3 categories of immigration?

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  • Economic immigrants.
  • Family status immigrants.
  • Refugees.
5
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Greatest source of immigrants are ___ immigrants (what type, not ethnicity).

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Economic.

6
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___ has highest per-capita rate of immigration in the world.

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Canada.

7
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Canada has a tenuous form of ___ to immigrants.

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Tolerants.

8
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What disturbed the tolerance towards immigrants?

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9/11.

9
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More educated people were ___ hostile towards immigrants.

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Less.

10
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What are the 2 key points by Doug Saunders?

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  • Canada is highly under-populated: increase immigration to avoid economic, social, and environmental problems.
  • Focus on immigration’s impact on Canadian economy and challenges to Canadian social system.
11
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The Canadian Border Security show exposes something deeply troubling about…

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The fact that watching people being detained and arrested and humiliated and interrogated becomes something that we consume as part of our nightly entertainment.

12
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What was shown by the article Arrival of the Fittest?

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Immigration decreases crime across all nationalities.

13
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Who talked about the eyes on the street?

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Jane Jacobs.

14
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Why does immigration decrease crime?

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  • Eyes on the street (Jane Jacobs).
  • Spillover effect — law abiding citizens, then people follow suit.
  • Economic revitalization of poor neighbourhoods.
15
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Dinovitzer’s Factors Against Delinquency:

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  • Strong family bonds.
  • Commitment to education.
  • Aversion to risk (trouble).
16
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Dinovitzer’s Factors Against Delinquency act in a…

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Feedback loop.

17
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Who said that we miss the human side if we boil immigration down to this economic calculation that reduces a complex story to something very mechanical?

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Irvin Studin.

18
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Temporary Foreign Workers

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Group of wide-ranging programs that allow foreign workers to come to Canada temporarily. Allows employers to bring in workers to do jobs that are going unfilled in Canada.

19
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Problems with TFW’s:

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  • Labour shortage or low-cost labour shortage?
  • Vulnerability of short-term workers.
  • Suppresses wages of Canadians.
  • Impact in home countries (remittances)?
20
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Indentured Servitude

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Guarantee of that worker for time period, low pay, and likely no holidays taken.

21
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TFW needs to be coupled with…

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Better protection and permanent residency.

22
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Hidden Problem

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Recruiters — intermediaries who match foreign workers with local employers — bypass the system for a quick buck, sometimes charging immigrants high fees for jobs.

23
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What does the TFW program do to those workers?

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Nation of immigrants is establishing a second class of labour without the same rights we enjoy.

24
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Give example of problems with the TFW program in recent years.

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Employers from some of those countries would also be exempt from a wage floor Ottawa established in 2014 to ensure foreign workers on intra-company transfers are paid the prevailing wage for their occupation.

25
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Remittances

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The money immigrants send to family members in their country of origin.

26
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What was explored in the documentary “The Other Side of Immigration (2010)?”

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  • Encouraging viewers to put themselves in the shoes of those who are doing the immigrating.
  • What happens to the families and communities they leave behind?
27
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Illegal Development

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Going over the border illegally, and sending money back home. Development resulting from people working illegally.

28
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What were the social problems explored in The Other Side of Immigration?

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Economic inequality/poverty, women as main caregivers, lack of male role models, conflict in family relationships.

29
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What sociological perspectives were used in The Other Side of Immigration?

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Feminist, SI, Conflict, SF.