Vocabulary
The process of people establishing homes, and often citizenship, in a country that is not their native country.
What is immigration?
The top three criterion within the point system.
What are education, language, experience?
An immigrant fleeing their country due to political unrest.
What is a refugee?
A discriminatory fee imposed by the Canadian government on nearly all Chinese immigrants entering Canada between 1885 and 1923.
What is the Chinese Head Tax
What is the difference between immigration and emigration?
Immigration = moving to a country; Emigration = moving from a country
The characteristics of populations. Ex. age, gender, race, marital status, number of children, occupation, annual income, education level, etc.
What is demographic?
The maximum number of points one may receive under this point system.
What is 100?
An immigrant hoping to join their spouse and child in Calgary, Alberta.
What is family immigrant?
What is one Indigenous Policy regarding Immigration?
Indigenous people in Canada have the right to be consulted when the government of Canada makes decisions that fundamentally shape the future of the country.
A province needs more nurses and selects immigrants with healthcare experience. What program are they using?
Provincial Nomination Program
The negative aspect or condition that motivates one to leave their country. Examples: Natural disasters, political unrest, war, poor economic state, drought, famine, etc.
What is a push factor?
The lowest number one might receive to be accepted into the FSW program.
What is 67?
The most common reason/factor for someone to immigrate to Canada.
What is economic (ie. better job opportunities)?
Objectives of the Canadian Immigration Act of 1885.
To limit the number of Chinese immigrants through the implementation of a head tax ($50 to $500) after the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Which level of government is mainly responsible for immigration in Canada?
What is The Federal Government
The reasons one may immigrate into a new country. Ex. Job opportunities, family reunification, political ideologies, health care system, etc.
What are pull factors?
An applicant has strong work experience and education but is over 50 years old. How might this affect their chances in the point system?
Their chances may decrease because age is a factor in the point system, and applicants in certain age ranges (younger working-age adults) receive more points.
The main objectives of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act of 2002.
What is: To save lives, to offer protection, to express humanitarian needs?
This Supreme Court decision declared that refugee claimants are entitled to basic standards of rights protection.
What is the Singh Decision
What was one requirement that prevented passengers on the Komagata Maru from entering Canada?
They did not make a continuous journey
The system Canada uses as a criterion to decide who is accepted as an economic immigrant to Canada.
What is the Federal Skilled Workers Point System (FSWP)?
An applicant scores very high in education, language, and work experience but has no job offer and no connections to Canada. What point system factor are they missing, and how could it impact their application?
They are missing adaptability. This could lower their overall score, making it harder to be selected compared to someone with similar skills who already has ties or a job offer.
Type of immigrant: People crossing a border illegally, seeking protection
What is asylum seeker?
The year the Chinese Exclusion Act was revoked.
What is 1947?
Name 3 reasons the birth rate in Canada is decreasing