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expulsion étrangers Canada émigration immigration Canada emigration foreigner immigration deportation Political Science HIS006000 HBJKSujets proches
Migration, International Immigration International migration Expulsion Deportation--Law and legislation Foreign population ImmigrationCiter ce document
Barbara Roberts, « 8. “Shovelling Out” the Redundant, 1930-1935 », Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press, ID : 10670/1.q3f42q
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The deportation of the unemployed in the 1930s continued well established practice, but at the same time intensified to such a degree that it became a change in kind. The tradition of expelling immigrants who had become public charges had been established some fifty years earlier. The unemployed who had gone on relief were the main target group for the Department of Immigration during the Depression. Just as unemployment became a mass phenomenon, the response of the Department to it was the m...