Immigration Policy in Canada

Örn B. Bodvarsson () and Hendrik Berg ()
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Örn B. Bodvarsson: St. Cloud State University
Hendrik Berg: University of Nebraska

Chapter Chapter 14 in The Economics of Immigration, 2009, pp 379-394 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Keywords: Immigration Policy; Destination Country; Chinese Immigrant; Canadian Government; Canadian Immigration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77796-0_14

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