In June 1939, the St. Louis ocean liner arrived off the east coast of Canada carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing Germany. The Canadian government refused to allow them to enter Canada, since immigration policies restricted the entrance of people who were not WASPs (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant) or from the United Kingdom. What term describes this denial of entrance?

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Institutional racism refers to the policies and practices within and across institutions that, intentionally or not, produce outcomes that chronically favor or put a racial group at a disadvantage. The refusal of the Canadian government to allow the Jewish refugees to enter, based on immigration policies that favored WASPs and those from the United Kingdom, is an example of institutional racism.