Canada - Migration Policies
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- Canada - Immigration Policies
- 1870 - 1918
- The Open Door Policy
- Development of Communcations
- To create an integrated economy between the east (manufacturing) and west (agricultural) industries
- Built the Transcontinental Railway
- Immigration Act 1910
- encouraged farmers and female domestic workers to settle in the west.
- No restrictions on numbers.
- Restrictive to the source of migrants.
- Britain, USA, N.West Europe.
- Not a sufficient number of migrants.
- Rail Companies hired Chinese workers & paid tax her head for their employment.
- Not a sufficient number of migrants.
- Gave Canadian Government control over Racial Composition of migrants.
- Britain, USA, N.West Europe.
- Development of Communcations
- The Open Door Policy
- 1919 - 1929
- Preferred/Non-Preferred Countries
- Immigration become more selective.
- Prospective migrants had a pass a literacy test.
- The government separated prospective migrants into preferred and non-preferred countries.
- Preferred:-
Britain
USA
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
- Given financial assistance to aid move and settlement in Canada.
- Empire Settlement Act 1922 - subsidised travel costs for British willing to settle west.
- Given financial assistance to aid move and settlement in Canada.
- Non-Preferred:- Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Russia.
- Exclusion Act 1923 prevented Chinese immigrants bringing family members with them.
- Only admitted in Canada in times of need for the lowest paid jobs.
- Preferred:-
Britain
USA
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
- Government exercised tight controls over numbers of entries.
- Immigration become more selective.
- Preferred/Non-Preferred Countries
- 1930 - 1945
- The Closed Door Policy
- Unemployment rose significantly & gov. stopped migration.
- 'Family Reunion' category only - close Canadian relatives not wishing to enter labour market.
- Only UK & USA.
- 'Family Reunion' category only - close Canadian relatives not wishing to enter labour market.
- Unemployment rose significantly & gov. stopped migration.
- The Closed Door Policy
- 1946 - 1962
- Increase the numbers of migrants.
- Admitted from Eastern Europe, those escaping Communist regimes.
- Immigration Act 1952 - reference to ethnic nature of immigrants.
- More stringent selection process than before.
- Increase the numbers of migrants.
- 1960 - 1986
- Racial undertones of policy removed.
- Attention focused on skills level rather than source country.
- Immigration Act 1970s - Enrich & strengthen cultural & social fabric. - not discriminated on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion or sex.
- Points System (no longer preferred/non-preferred).
- 1986 - 1993
- Migration no longer a short term solution but a long term demographic necessity.
- Immigrants would readjust the overall age structure of the pop.
- 1985- 85,000 1993-250,000 migrants.
- Selection did still remain but greater emphasis given to skill level & entrepreneurs
- Migration no longer a short term solution but a long term demographic necessity.
- 1993 - 2008
- Migration seen as an essential requirement for demographic stability.
- Annual target - 320,000 immigrants.
- Points System modified - emphasis on technical & linguistic skills.
- Migration seen as an essential requirement for demographic stability.
- 1870 - 1918
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