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Legislaţia canadiană privind imigraţia
Canadian Legislation Concerning Immigration

Author(s): Minerva Lovin
Subject(s): History
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai

Summary/Abstract: Canadian Legislation Concerning Immigration. Immigration, a most significant phenomenon within the framework of political, social, cultural and religious life of the Canadian state, was for a long time the main means to increase its population. At the beginning, the immigration policy was highly liberal, an "open gates" policy; beginning with World War I, there was a shift from spontaneous immigration, supported by immigration agencies to an immigration under state control. The present study presents some of the main stages of the Canadian legislative initiatives concerning immigration.

  • Issue Year: 44/1999
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 117-124
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian
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