Deck 10: Immigrants: History and Current Issues

Question 1

Select a major group of Immigrants who came to Canada before World War II. Discuss the reasons for immigration, settlement patterns in Canada, and how this group of immigrants influenced the development of Canada.

Answer 1

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Question 2

The "war-brides" of WWII are the largest single immigrant group of all one gender who ever immigrated. What kinds of adjustment issues did they encounter? Visit the Pier 21 website for some of your information.

Answer 2

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Question 3

Select a major group of Immigrants who came to your community in the past decade. Discuss their reasons for immigration, adjustment issues, and how this group of immigrants have influenced the development of your community.

Answer 3

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Question 4

Research immigration issues that have appeared in the newspaper during the past three months. What issues are presented?

Question 5

Should Canada increase or decrease immigration quotas? Discuss and explain.

Question 6

Select one of the major immigration groups in your area and determine their major motivation for immigration.

Question 7

Discuss the statement "Canada has always had an open-door immigration policy".

Question 8

What is meant by "racialized groups"?

Question 9

What is the difference between an immigrant and a refugee?

Question 10

Select an immigrant group not portrayed in your textbook (pp. 135-166) and summarize the social welfare experience of this group.

Question 11

During the first immigration phase

A) Those allowed to enter Canada were mainly skilled technicians
B) Those allowed to enter Canada were mainly British and French
C) Those allowed to enter Canada were fleeing the poverty of Europe
D) Those allowed to enter Canada were unskilled immigrants from Italy, Portugal and Greece

Question 12

The Points system

A) Increased immigration from Britain
B) Discouraged applications from independent immigrants
C) Allowed non-Europeans to sponsor close relatives
D) Saw a decline in Third World immigrants

Question 13

Historically the preferred immigration categories have been

A) Eastern and Southern Europeans
B) Asians
C) Africans and people from the Caribbean
D) British, Northwest Europeans and white Americans

Question 14

Common reasons people migrate are

A) To seek greater opportunities
B) To avoid diseases and plagues
C) To gain greater freedom
D) To avoid service in their national armed forces
E) A and C above

Question 15

The second category of refugees (people who only apply once they are in Canada, having entered on temporary permits) include those who

A) Apply from their homeland for consideration due to fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion or nationality
B) Apply from their homeland for consideration due to fear of persecution because of membership in a particular social group
C) Apply from their homeland for consideration due to fear of persecution because of a political opinion
D) None of the above

Question 16

The significance of the 1988 Multiculturalism Act is that

A) It made Canada the first country ever with an official multiculturalism law
B) It promoted cultural pluralism
C) Its intent was to generate measures to reduce discrimination
D) All of the above

Question 17

Responsibility for immigrant integration is often left to

A) Provincial government-sponsored programmes
B) Federal government programmes
C) Voluntary and non-government services
D) None of the above

Question 18

Immigration policies are related to

A) National and racial origins of immigrants
B) War
C) Political unrest
D) International conditions of poverty
E) All of the above

Question 19

In 1867, the largest single source of immigration was

A) French nationals
B) Spanish nationals
C) Chinese nationals
D) British nationals
E) All of the above

Question 20

The Points system has been described as a racially discriminatory merit system.

Question 21

There is a hierarchy of racism in Canada.

Question 22

European explorers migrated to Canada to enrich their motherland.

Question 23

Canada has always had an open-door immigration policy.

Question 24

Low fertility rates affect government attitudes to immigration.

Question 25

The British government discouraged immigration to Canada.

Question 26

In the fourth immigration phase, restrictions continued for those speaking "enemy" languages.

Question 27

The last immigration phase began after the Vietnam War.

Question 28

Backlogs in processing immigration applicants can be linked to concerns of patronage in appointments to membership on the Immigration and Refugee Board.

Question 29

Concern has been expressed in Canada about the number of migrants that can be absorbed without threatening the nation's own social cohesiveness and the dominant "cultural identity".