Race, Gender and Canadian Immigration Policy: Blacks from the Caribbean, 1900-1932

Type of resource
Author/collaborator
Title
Race, Gender and Canadian Immigration Policy: Blacks from the Caribbean, 1900-1932
Abstract
Examines two movements of Caribbean Black workers to Canada during the first three decades of the twentieth century. The first group of workers migrated to Nova Scotia to work in the coalmines and the coke ovens of the Sydney steel plant. The second group consisted of domestic workers who were recruited from Guadeloupe and the British Caribbean to help fill the demand for cheap labour in Quebec, Ontario and Nova Scotia. The author outlines the contrasting desire of employers for cheap unskilled labour and the government’s desire to exclude Black people as permanent settlers in Canada.
Publication
Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes
Volume
Vol. 28
Issue
no. 4
Pages
131-148
Date
Winter 1993-1994
Language
en
Citation
Calliste, Agnes. “Race, Gender and Canadian Immigration Policy: Blacks from the Caribbean, 1900-1932.” Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes Vol. 28, no. 4 (Winter -1994 1993): 131–148.
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