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This chapter presents a brief history of Canadian immigration policy. Like U.S. immigration policy, Canadian immigration policy has shifted from openness at the start of the nineteenth century to a rigid ethnic quota system in the early twentieth century, and now back to a more open policy regime. The current immigration policy in Canada differs from U.S. policy in one important way: Canadian policy is more selective but admits many more immigrants on a per capita basis than does U.S. policy. The chapter attempts to answer the seven questions posed in the Introduction to this section for each of the distinct immigration policy regimes.
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Notes
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The Canadian Minister of Immigration, Quoted in 2000 in Beltrame (2000).
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The Norse explorer Lief Ericson landed in what is now Newfoundland around the year 1000, but his arrival did not lead to permanent European settlements.
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W.A. Carrothers (1948).
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Quote from Wikipedia (2007).
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Dench (2007).
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Kelley and Trebilcock (2000, p. 107).
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Dench (2007).
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Bélanger (2006).
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Bélanger (2006).
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Quoted in Dench (2007).
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Quoted in Dench (2007).
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These excerpts of past laws were provided by the Marianopolis College site on Quebec History, Documents of Canadian History, “Contrasting Canadian Immigration Regulations (1910, 1952, 1970s),” downloaded on 8 December, 2007 from http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/QuebecHistory/readings/CanadianImmigrationRegulations/
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Newman (1999).
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Stoffman (2006).
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Beltrame (2000).
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Quoted in Beltrame (2000).
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Bodvarsson, Ö.B., Van den Berg, H. (2009). Immigration Policy in Canada. In: The Economics of Immigration. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77796-0_14
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