Two Sides of Immigration

Question 1

Canadian policy on immigration.

Answer 1

Greatest impact on history, economy, identity, multicultural identity, and regional diversity.

Question 2

Why is Canadian immigration important?

Answer 2

By 2030, deaths > births — from then on, immigration as only growth factor for population.

Question 3

There is growing ___ ___ due to immigration policies.

Answer 3

Ethnic diversity.

Question 4

What are the 3 categories of immigration?

Answer 4

• Economic immigrants.
• Family status immigrants.
• Refugees.

Question 5

Greatest source of immigrants are ___ immigrants (what type, not ethnicity).

Answer 5

Economic.

Question 6

___ has highest per-capita rate of immigration in the world.

Answer 6

Canada.

Question 7

Canada has a tenuous form of ___ to immigrants.

Answer 7

Tolerants.

Question 8

What disturbed the tolerance towards immigrants?

Answer 8

9/11.

Question 9

More educated people were ___ hostile towards immigrants.

Answer 9

Less.

Question 10

What are the 2 key points by Doug Saunders?

Answer 10

• Canada is highly under-populated: increase immigration to avoid economic, social, and environmental problems.
• Focus on immigration’s impact on Canadian economy and challenges to Canadian social system.

Question 11

The Canadian Border Security show exposes something deeply troubling about…

Answer 11

The fact that watching people being detained and arrested and humiliated and interrogated becomes something that we consume as part of our nightly entertainment.

Question 12

What was shown by the article Arrival of the Fittest?

Answer 12

Immigration decreases crime across all nationalities.

Question 13

Who talked about the eyes on the street?

Answer 13

Jane Jacobs.

Question 14

Why does immigration decrease crime?

Answer 14

• Eyes on the street (Jane Jacobs).
• Spillover effect — law abiding citizens, then people follow suit.
• Economic revitalization of poor neighbourhoods.

Question 15

Dinovitzer’s Factors Against Delinquency:

Answer 15

• Strong family bonds.
• Commitment to education.
• Aversion to risk (trouble).

Question 16

Dinovitzer’s Factors Against Delinquency act in a…

Answer 16

Feedback loop.

Question 17

Who said that we miss the human side if we boil immigration down to this economic calculation that reduces a complex story to something very mechanical?

Answer 17

Irvin Studin.

Question 18

Temporary Foreign Workers

Answer 18

Group of wide-ranging programs that allow foreign workers to come to Canada temporarily. Allows employers to bring in workers to do jobs that are going unfilled in Canada.

Question 19

Problems with TFW’s:

Answer 19

• Labour shortage or low-cost labour shortage?
• Vulnerability of short-term workers.
• Suppresses wages of Canadians.
• Impact in home countries (remittances)?

Question 20

Indentured Servitude

Answer 20

Guarantee of that worker for time period, low pay, and likely no holidays taken.

Question 21

TFW needs to be coupled with…

Answer 21

Better protection and permanent residency.

Question 22

Hidden Problem

Answer 22

Recruiters — intermediaries who match foreign workers with local employers — bypass the system for a quick buck, sometimes charging immigrants high fees for jobs.

Question 23

What does the TFW program do to those workers?

Answer 23

Nation of immigrants is establishing a second class of labour without the same rights we enjoy.

Question 24

Give example of problems with the TFW program in recent years.

Answer 24

Employers from some of those countries would also be exempt from a wage floor Ottawa established in 2014 to ensure foreign workers on intra-company transfers are paid the prevailing wage for their occupation.

Question 25

Remittances

Answer 25

The money immigrants send to family members in their country of origin.

Question 26

What was explored in the documentary “The Other Side of Immigration (2010)?”

Answer 26

• Encouraging viewers to put themselves in the shoes of those who are doing the immigrating.
• What happens to the families and communities they leave behind?

Question 27

Illegal Development

Answer 27

Going over the border illegally, and sending money back home. Development resulting from people working illegally.

Question 28

What were the social problems explored in The Other Side of Immigration?

Answer 28

Economic inequality/poverty, women as main caregivers, lack of male role models, conflict in family relationships.

Question 29

What sociological perspectives were used in The Other Side of Immigration?

Answer 29

Feminist, SI, Conflict, SF.