Canada’s Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Just one of several new titles from the ABC-CLIO’s “Ethnic Diversity Within Nations” series now available on CREDO reference.
From Canada’s profound racism in the 19th and early 20th centuries to its radical shift in immigration policy in the 1960s, this one-of-a-kind reference explores the past 1,000 years of ethnicity in Canada.
During World War II thousands of Japanese immigrants were incarcerated in prison camps; yet in the 1980s Asian immigrants outnumbered Europeans 6:1. What caused this turnaround in immigration policy? How did one of the most racist nations in the world become one of the most welcoming?
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