TITLE

Race, gender and Canadian immigration policy: Blacks from the Caribbean, 1900-1932

AUTHOR(S)
Calliste, Agnes
PUB. DATE
December 1993
SOURCE
Journal of Canadian Studies;Winter93, Vol. 28 Issue 4, p131
SOURCE TYPE
Academic Journal
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Examines the population movement of Caribbean blacks to Canada between 1900 and 1932 from a political economy perspective. Migration to Nova Scotia to work in coal mines and ovens of the steel plants; Migration to Canada to work as domestic workers; Economic, political,and ideological reasons as factors in the immigration of the black Caribbeans; Restriction of immigration.
ACCESSION #
9406220187

Tags: CANADA -- Economic aspects;  EMIGRATION & immigration

 

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