Exclusion
What was the Gentleman's Agreement?
A series of agreements concerning Japan and Canada that restricted the number of Japanese immigrants leaving the country and migrating to Canada
What does it mean to be an immigrant?
An Immigrant is referred to as an individual that leaves their country of origin, to work in a wealthy country to provide money for their family
What were the pre-existing constructions of Muslims mentioned during the presentation?
Violent, dangerous, and barbaric
What influenced Canada to create new policies on immigration and that greatly affected Muslims?
9/11 and its influence to support the "war on terror"
What is a refugee?
Canada used it as a code word for Jewish people
What does the Canadain Immigration system fail to recognize?
The strain that migrant familie face when being separated
What was the "war on terror" based upon?
It was built on pre-existing constructions of Muslims as violent, dangerous and barbaric in relation to Western societies
What was the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885?
A $50 head tax that was given to every Chinese individual seeking access to Canada
What are the Methods of Exclusion
Controlling Immigration
The Chinese Exclusion Act
The Gentlemen's Agreement
The Continuous Journey Stimulation
Deportation
What is the purpose of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA)?
TO regulate immigration into Canada
Where were stereotypes most commonly found?
During the decision making of acts and legislations
What is Family Reunification?
The process of separated families, typically caused by immigration, is able to unify together again
What is securitization?
It is a discursive process in which a group or an issue is “securitized” by being named a threat to something else that is valued, such as the nation or the government
What changed the immigration policies?
The Immigration Act of 1976 and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA)
What does it mean to be a "desirable or undesirable" Immigrant?
Undesirable: Never any real definition as to who was undesirable, however instead officials were allowed to exclude just about any potential immigrant based on their race, or ethnic origin
Desirable: those of cheap labour,
What is the Quebec Anti-Radicalization Plan?
Frames radicalization as a problem of social relations.
For example, racialized minority immigrants are expected to integrate into intercultural relationship through acknowledging the importance of majority groups identity and learning French among other things