1. Canada's Immigration Policies
Each year, Canada imports almost 250,000 immigrants each year that essentially come from economic and family class (Citizenship and Immigration Canada, 2009). ... In 1885, Chinese immigrants were brought to Canada to build a national railway and after its completion; the Canadian government prohibited the families of these workers from immigrating to Canada by passing the Chinese Immigration Act (Abu-Laban & Gabriel, 2003, p.294). ... Canada's current policy has three classifications of immigration: Family Reunification, Economic Immigrant, and Refugee. Approximately 30% of immigrants ...
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