Migration In Canada

The Portuguese immigrated to Canada around the 19th century. It all started in the year 1953, when a group of Portuguese pioneers immigrated to Canada (Moura, 2003). Once the first couple of Portuguese pioneers crossed the ocean to immigrate into Canada, others followed and sort of started a wave. However, in 1957 a volcano erupted, known as the Capelinhos, which end up making Portuguese families and pioneers move to North America (Morrison & James, 2009), because the living conditions had changed. Many Portuguese people immigrated to Canada in order to make a better living, looking for a job for them to survive and to not serve the war. This paper will discuss the Portuguese minority ethnic group in Canada, and to take a further look into

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

By 1861, due to a large influx of immigrants into Canada West during the 1850’s, the census showed that Canada west had almost 300,000 more people than Canada East. Due to the demographic change, George

When Canada first became a country, the immigration policies were very discriminatory. Specific races were wanted or unwanted, even though an attempt was being made to fill the west with settlers. Aboriginals were actually being pushed onto reserves and children into residential schools in an attempt to assimilate their ways of life into the mainstream Canadian culture. Chinese peoples who worked on the Canadian Pacific Railway had to pay a fairly large head tax to enter Canada which was meant to discourage them from moving here (http://mapleleafweb.com). The dislike of these people was not attempted to be hidden, in fact, Canada’s prime minister at one point said, “He has no British instincts or British feelings or aspirations, and therefore ought not to have a vote.” (CBC Archives), showing that anyone who did not fully accept and support the British culture would either not be treated as a true Canadian or would not be accepted into Canada. Canada’s policies have changed significantly, and the people who have immigrated to it shaped it into the place that exists now, a culturally diverse

Major government policies and acts were headway into creating Canada’s modern-day identity. The Immigration Act of 1976 changed Canada’s perspective on immigration eligibility, and majorly contributed towards structuring Canada’s polyethnic background and culture. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau grew up in an extremely discriminatory climate, and believed that Canada should inherit collective identity. Trudeau endorsed immigration to built Canada’s diverse ethnic culture, and accentuated third world immigrants to bring change to Canada’s

In 1945, the immigration policy changed and Immigration expanded (Quebec History). Thousands of Europeans came to Canada hoping they could build a better life, however, Prime Minister King did not allow all immigrants. May of 1947, he declared an immigration policy to control population growth. He allowed immigrants who easily understood and strictly skope English or French (Filice). Due to the economic growth, Canada was in need for people who could work in labor and expanding industries. During this time, they experienced a large human migration from the Netherlands. In 1947,about 15000 Dutch farmers came to Canada (Filice). Canada and the Netherlands had an agreement known as the Netherlands Farm-Families Movement, which allowed to immigrants to work on canadian farms until purchasing their own land (Filice). 2000 war brides were also a part of the immigrants and many caused caused Canada's “baby boom” (Filice). This increased Canada's birth rate to 24.3 and by 1946 it had jumped to 27.2 (Krotki and Henripin). Immigration had a huge effect on Canada's population and created better lives for many

The period of 1914 to 1939, Canada’s immigration policy got very unfair. Changes were made to the Immigration Act in 1914 that allowed the rejection of anyone from any race that was deemed

The Federal Government of Canada should provide not only access to immigration but also make sure to provide new immigrants with opportunities. Firstly, there are still employment issues for Immigrants. According to an interview conducted by CBC, interviewing new immigrants and refugees, Sandy chugh, an immigrant said, "I don't see a lot of growth," when describing his current job. Despite having years of experience in marketing and a bachelor's degree from Ireland, the 32-year-old is working in a warehouse for the retailer Best Buy (Dunn, 2016). This relates to the issue as due to refugees and immigrants not having an absolute experience, yet being highly qualified for jobs, are not given equal opportunities than the natives who were born and educated in the country. Furthermore, to resolve this issue, the Canadian government must

In “Immigrants and Canadians, Maintaining Both Identities” by Andrew Cohen, which is part of a segment in the New York Times called “How Immigrants Come to Be Seen as Americans,” Cohen states that Canada is “…unlike virtually every country in Europe, we have no nativist party or institutional xenophobia,” and dubs Canada as a Mosaic of Multiculturalism. Why is this so, and how might the perspective that ‘Canada equals a mosaic’ play a role in this surprising phenomenon?

The term "multiculturalism" has been used by the Canadians in two different perspectives. The first use of this word is descriptive; meanwhile the other one is normative. The former sense implies the description of various religious and cultural groups that the Canadian population consists of. The nation of Canada is based on people from various races, religions and cultural backgrounds and there is a general acceptance of cultural pluralism in the country. Since the nineteenth century, Canada has experienced various waves of immigration (Wayland, 1997). Moreover, it has been reported that by the 1980s approximately 40 percent of the people were of origins other than British and French; the two being the largest and oldest groups of people in Canada (Troper, 1989). The history of Canada gives a great deal of importance to the relationship that existed between the French and the British people. According to the statistics, the major population of the country at the beginning of the 21st century was composed of people from outside French and British heritage; meanwhile there were many people who presented themselves as "visible minorities".

Even though birth rates were higher than immigration rates in the early 20th century immigration was still very important to the Canadian economy because since approximately 180,000 people immigrated to Canada during the time periods of 1900-1910 and each of those immigrants received 160 acres of land in western Canada it stopped the possibility of America expansion because western Canada was beginning to become colonized which boosted the economy because Canada has one of the world’s largest supply of natural resources such as metals, lumber and oil and in order for those resources to be not only discovered but to be put to use Canada needed workers but it had a very low birthrate compared to the other country’s therefore immigration was need to put Canada’s resources to use and start internationals trade and to boost the economy and without immigration the birth rate would stay low also “Economic activity in Canada is

Canada’s immigration policy has changed several times with many different extents of amendment over the years. Particularly in times of social and economic downturns (or uprisings) throughout the past, for instance World War I, the Depression, World War II, and even before 1914. In addition, multiculturalism has made a drastic impact on immigration and Canadian’s tolerance of other’s cultures. Canada’s immigration policy has also affected Canada’s population and the immigrants it consists of. During the first half of the 20th century the restrictions of the immigration policy became increasingly severe and discriminatory.

Immigration and racial diversity have always been an important notion of the Canadian identity. Historically, matters pertaining to the aforementioned topics have been dealt solely at the Federal level. The article aims primarily to evaluate three notions that may affect how immigration and racial minorities are viewed by the native-born white Canadian population at a provincial level. Borrowed from the Canadian Election Studies, data collected over a twenty-year period,1988-2008, is utilized to determine if the economy, demographic, and culture impacts the native-white Canadian attitude towards said non-native groups in the respective provinces. (Bilodeau,Turgeon,Karakoc, 581)

Today, Canada is known as a developed, independent country with people of different cultures. The Canadian identity has unique cultures and characteristics that set them apart from the rest of the world. Since the mid-20th century, Canada underwent many changes that shaped Canada into what it is today. The Women’s Movements, immigration after the 1950s, and the rule of Pierre Trudeau played important roles in the growth and shaping of the Canadian identity.

The quantity of individuals who are into Canada is consistently expanding as seen somewhere around 2001 and 2006, the quantity of remotely conceived individuals expanded by 13.6%, and by, 2006 Canada had developed to have 34 ethnic groups with no less than one hundred thousand individuals each, of which eleven have more than 1,000,000 individuals and various others are spoken to in littler sums. 16.2% of the populace self-distinguishes as a noticeable minority (Statistics Canada, 2011). This massive immigration has ensured that multiculturalism in Canada has never faced any threat of collapse. The Canadians know that the only way different cultures are going to strive in the country is by supporting legal immigration of people from various parts of the world into the country. By allowing the settlement of immigrants, multiculturalism in Canada was being