History
The belief that there are human groups with particular (usually physical)characteristics that make them superior or inferior to others
What is racism?
Prior to 1967, when important new immigration legislation came into force, nationality was the main criterion for admission to Canada.
What is immigration policy?
They need to be sensitive to religious and cultural differences within the population they serve.
What are issues Social Workers face?
These are individuals who have left their home or country of origin, often due to serious trauma and out of fear for their lives.
What are Refugees?
From 2010 - 2013 Muslim populations had the highest percentage of hate crimes.
What is Islamophobia?
A Flat fee that each Chinese immigrants had to pay in order to enter Canada. The tax was levied between 1885 and 1923.
What is Head Tax?
In 1967 the "point system", was introduced based on criteria other than "country of origin"
What is immigration classes?
Social workers are involved in outreach and consultation, education, and awareness activities and in fostering the creation of advocacy and support groups.
What are ways to combat hate crimes?
It's felt more acutely by children, women with small children or those are heads of families, and disabled elderly people.
Who displacement impacts?
It is the largest humanitarian crisis since WW2
What is the Syrian Refugee Crisis?
Refers to prejudice against, hatred of, or discrimination against an ethnic, religious, or racial group.
What is Anti-Semitism?
In 1971, Canada became the first country to adopt this as an official policy. The policy aimed to create a more integrated society.
What is multiculturalism?
This process is continuous and is participatory, it seeks to understand the client and their situation, and sets a framework of how change can be achieved.
What is a needs assessment?
Under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and associated regulations, a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada aged at least 18 is allowed, subject to certain conditions, to sponsor specific members of their immediate family for permanent residence in Canada.
What is Family Reunification?
This movement has recently challenged racial inequality in the United States criminal justice system
What is Black Lives Matter?
They arrived in Nova Scotia in 1784, following the American War
Who were the Black Loyalists?
These individuals are skilled workers, business owners and entrepreneurs
What is the economic class?
This is an assessment tool, that provides key background questions to assist the social worker in determining the types of intervention may be required to address prevailing concerns.
What is Stage-of-Migration-Framework?
Due to a recent Conservative Federal Government decision, to the Interim Federal Health Program, all Refugees lost this service
What is accessing Health Care?
Assuming an individual's ethnic origin based on initial observation
What is stereotyping?
As a result of segregation, not only were its black residents separated from the white residents of Halifax, but their community was on the outskirts of town.
What is Africville?
This term is still widely used in government circles, it has rightly come under criticism, even by outside organizations such as the United Nations.
What are visible minorities?
It demands that practitioners work to examine and perhaps change their own awareness and practices, the practices of those around them, institutional policies and procedures, and social relations and systems that operate, both overtly and covertly, to perpetuate racism.
What is anti-racist social work?
In 2017 Canada accepted 25,000 refugees from this country
What is Syria?
This Canadian Black rights activist was recently commemorated on the new Canadian $10 bill.
Who is Viola Desmond?