Unit 2 Flashcards
What is the political economy of immigration?
tool in process of capital accumulation.
What is the 3 factors in socio economic vulnerability of immigrants
poor pay, more difficult, more dangerous job
immigration is used by employers as a way to
disorganize the working class
Permanent Residents
Economic immigrants, refugees or family class immigrants
The largest category of immigrants to canada
economic
4 sub categories of the economic immigrant
skilled workers, business class, live in caregivers and provincial nominies
The point system is used for
skilled workers
What are provincial nominees
provinces are allowed to develop their own selection criteria for immigrants, not bound by the point system
One of the single largest categories for temporary foreign workers is under the…
seasonal agricultural workers program
Three types of illegal immigrants
Entered without official authorization, visa over stayers,failed refugee claimants
Sharma’s Method
Institutional Ethnography
Targetof sharmas study
the social organization of our knowledge of migrant workers
Data for sharias study
Canada’s 1973 Non Immigrant Employment Authorization Program
2 findings of sharma
1) Relationship between racist and nationalist ideological state practices and the material organization of canadian labour market 2) Parliamentary Discursive Binary
How is radicalization embedded but not explicit in sharma’s study
freedoms of citizens mean denying freedoms to those that threaten citizenry
Danger in cultural sociology
disembodies concepts
What are material as well as ideological
binaries of the citizen and migrant-Other
John Porter focuses of asking the question of
What is the relationship between class and ethnicity?
What does Porter suggest fixes “ethnic affiliation blocks social mobility”?
Assimilation
Category problems in canadian history of inequality
“visible minorities” “radicalized groups” “whites” all mask internal differences
4 meanings of multiculturalism
1) Demographic reality 2) part of the pluralistic ideology 3) a form of economic 3) political struggle among groups 4) A set of government policies and accompanying programs
Ethnocentrism
ones own culture is automatically the standard to judge all others
Cultural Relativism
Accommodate social cleavages to maintain social order
1971-1980 folkloric multiculturalism
culture as a personal choice, celebrating our differences
The Multiculturalism Act
1988 multiculturalism elevated to equal position of bilingualism.
When was the rise of civic MC
1990s
Currently what kind of MC are we
Integrative MC
How is MC too effective
ineffective at solving real problems such as racism, class inequity and anglo dominance. Hardening of stereotypes and cultural relativism
MC tolerates
dangerous cultures and religions
MC is ineffective
Stasiulis, depoliticized activities that are non threatening to hegemonic ideology
Interculturallism recognizes
cultural diversity and cultural exchange but discourages ethnic enclaves and promotes linguistic assimilation
4 fundamental values of quebec
equality in rights, law, french, participation
The CCAPRCD report recognized
under rep of minorities in public admin jobs, need to support immigrant women, strengthening of economic and social rights
