UNIT 1: #2 Immigration Flashcards
What are “push” factors?
Conditions that make countries undesirable to live in
and repel people
What are “pull” factors?
Conditions that make countries desirable to live in
and attract people
Push and pull factors of Doukhobors / Mennonites
PUSH:
1) forced to serve and fight in country’s army against religious values
PULL:
1) religious freedom: no mandatory service
2) land promised for like-cultured people, communal systems
Push and pull factors of Europeans / British
PUSH:
1) farmers had little farming land to make a living because of limited space and industrialization
2) farmer children had no prospects/stable future
3) poverty and hunger
PULL:
1) free 65 ha of land
2) more job prospects/ better chances
Push and pull factors of Americans
PUSH:
1) Best land in the American West already taken up
PULL:
1) free land
2) can sell land in America, claim free land in Canada and still have money left for equipment
Push and pull factors of Ukraine
PUSH: 1) economic depression 2) national depression PULL: 1) free land 2) can farm wheat, which they are used to and familiar with
Push and pull factors of Black people
PUSH: 1) segregation 2) discrimination 3) lynching PULL: 1) free land 2) relatively "safer"
Push and pull factors of Asian people
PUSH: 1) scarce farmland (china) 2) no law and order (china) PULL: 1) economic opportunity (jobs) 2) fishing was familiar (JAPAN)
Describe the experiences Doukhobors / Mennonites had in Canada.
Communal/religious lifestyle not accepted by Canadians and government
1) new government insisted they register individual ownership of land, goes against communal lifestyle and promises made
2) had to become citizens and swear allegiance to the Crown, goes against religion
3) community divided: lost 400 000 ha of land
Describe the experiences Europeans / British had in Canada.
1) Orphans sent over because of working conditions and disease in Europe, sent to Canada to work in rural households/farms, run away get job
2) otherwise white, blended in and treated just fine (account for religion)
Describe the experiences Americans had in Canada.
good….
Describe the experiences Ukrainians had in Canada.
1) encouraged to ditch their languages, customs, and culture and canadianize
2) anglo-conformity
3) sent to internment camps under the War Measures Act
Describe the experiences Black people had in Canada.
1) experienced hidden racism (associated with violence and crime by other Canadians)
2) declared medically unfit to prevent them from entering Canada
Describe the experiences Asian people had in Canada.
1) After Canadian Pacific Railway was done, chinese people were discouraged to immigrate because of head tax. $50–> 100–>500
2) protests to prevent immigration from China
Why were immigrants important to Canada? 3 points
1) raised population, settled land which stopped Americans from manifest destiny
2) raised economy with agriculture (wheat)
3) infrastructure like the railroad and roads increased transportation of people and dispersed goods domestically and internationally. (sent to shipping ports via railway)
