Immigration Legislation In Canada

Canada has continuously served as a home to immigrants and refugees from decade to decade harbouring people from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The first set of immigrants to settle in the country came from Britain, the United States and from other nationalities mostly including immigrants from Europe who were either desperate to escape from religious or political turmoil or were simply attracted to Canada’s economic promise. Soon after the Canadian confederation in 1867, immigrants from Irish and Chinese backgrounds who occupied most of the country were used as workers and the demand for labourers to

85). The discriminations caused harassment, name calling, and abuse towards the Japanese and even Canadian born of Japanese origin (Porter & Uyeyama, 1984). In addition, discriminatory legislations issued by the Canadian government prevented Japanese people from voting, entering most of higher education institutions, and higher professions (Sugiman, 2004, p. 53). These policies made people think that Japanese people do not deserve to have the minimum wage jobs and therefore they could not get living wages which resulted in most Japanese to buy a boat and work in the fishing industry (Porter & Uyeyama, 1984). Consequently, not being accepted in the Canadian society resulted in marginalization of Japanese people in Canada, prior to the

The immigrant act was established in the parlimement of Canada in 1976, the main focus was not to discriminate who should not be allowed into Canada act, however it gave power to individual provinces, so they set out their own immigration rules and regulations called “forbidden classes” to continue forbidden classes refers to people who may be seen as a burden to the general society, also only independent immigrants were asked to take part in the points system. The levels of government involved were provincial and federal the responsibility’s are divided between the two levels of governments, the federal government has exclusive jurisdiction over deciding how many immigrants are accepted into Canada and the provincial governments job is is

During the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1881-1885, the discrimination against Chinese workers demonstrates social injustice.

To further add to the strengths of Canadian immigration policy, Canadian views on immigration are supported by a qualitative support, rather than misconceived narrative of immigrants. To elaborate, the media has created a narrative where certain races of immigrants are more prone to committing crimes through the over-reporting of immigrant crimes and incidents (Rossiter & Rossiter, 2009, p.2). This then creates a false impression of them that is reflected in the immigration policy, which then further fuels the discrimination. Statistically speaking, this impression is false as immigrants do not commit crimes at a greater rate than native population (Rossiter & Rossiter, 2009, p.5). In fact, according to empirical research, immigrants who have

Immigration has been a significant part of Canada. Immigrants come here to search for work opportunities, a new life, and to prepare to start or support a family. However, there are many challenges that come along with a new life, significantly, social exclusion.

After seeing what was happening to the Jews and other large groups of people in World War 2, Canada decided to stop aggressively discriminating people because of their ethnic origin. “In 1944, Ontario introduced provincial legislation called the Racial Discrimination Act.” George A. Drew was Ontario's current premier and he made a very important decision based on the bad treatments of people because of their ethnicity. Canada’s battle against oppression in Europe lowered their tolerance of oppression back home. This Racial Discrimination Act helped to the protected grounds of race against discrimination in Human Rights. During World War 2, Japanese Canadians were being accused of involvement to what happened in Pearl Harbour. They were denied basic rights and were sent to camps but like the Jews in Poland. “Japanese Canadians in British Columbia were denied the franchise in provincial elections until 1948 and in federal elections until 1949.” Although this franchise was denied for so long, it was a great thing to happen. Japanese Canadians should not have been discriminated because of the suspicions that they would have something to do with Pearl Harbour. No person should be denied the basic rights of things because of their ethnic origin nor should they be discriminated because of it. With Japanese Canadians getting some of their basic rights back, this

Each year lots of new migrants enter the Canadian economy therefore Canada has been classified as a multi cultural country, and due to this our citizens are more socially and globally aware of what is going on around them. Canada’s immigration Act and system helps our country be more culturally diverse, it increases economic growth, and make’s Canada a safer place to be which we can call our home. Along with new migrants coming every year, therefore ethnic communities are massively increasing by population and size.

The core of the Japanese experience in Canada lies in the shameful and almost undemocratic suspension of human rights that the Canadian government committed during World War II. As a result, thousands of Japanese were uprooted to be imprisoned in internment camps miles away from their homes. While only a small percentage of the Japanese living in Canada were actually nationals of Japan, those who were Canadian born were, without any concrete evidence, continuously being associated with a country that was nothing but foreign to them. Branded as "enemy aliens", the Japanese Canadians soon came to the realization that their beloved nation harboured so much hate and anti-Asian sentiments that Canada was becoming just as foreign to them as

This paper will discuss Canada’s protection of its citizens’ rights, or lack thereof, specifically in regard to the recent amendment to its Citizenship Act in the form of Bill C-24, or the “Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act”. Through this amendment, Canada acts to limit its protection of the rights of its new and dual citizens.

Canada has really strict policies and laws on who can immigrate to the country, and as a blooming economical place, people who have excellent experience will have a promised opportunity for jobs. In 2015 a new law came out economic immigrants helping them to come to Canada as fast as possible without any trouble. “Express Entry” is a major step forward in the transformation of Canada’s immigration system into one that is fast, flexible and focused on meeting Canada’s economic and labor needs. This will allow for greater flexibility and better responsiveness to deal with regional labor shortages, and help fill open jobs for which there are no available Canadian workers. Formerly referred to as “Expression of Interest” will be open to skilled

During the early 20th century, Asian immigrants who came to Canada faced a great deal of backlash from Canadian society. Among these men and women who came overseas, the Chinese suffered the brunt of the racial discrimination that ran rampant in Canada, and were treated distinguishably worse than any other group of immigrants. Although many other immigrants were met with prejudice and racial stereotyping on arrival, there was no other group that experienced the same level of organized racism as Chinese immigrants did. Discriminatory acts were not only conducted on a communal and societal level, but also found its way into Canadian politics. What resulted from this was a national effort to limit the Chinese from both entering Canada as well

As we can see from government statistics website, regular skilled worker program still plays an important role in Quebec immigration program. The number for PEQ is increasing as well. Government of Quebec has also placed requirement on French language and started language programs to help those who have intention to live in Quebec to improve their French. In all, government of Quebec select those immigrants based on labour market need and other humanitarian reasons which will for sure be beneficial to the Quebec economy.

reconstruction era of Post World War II. The 30s, 40s and the recession of the

Migration means an act of changing physical location of people to a new area or country in order to search for work or better living conditions. Accompanying family member or a relative who has a plan to migrate can also be obtained through having an appropriate provision.