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IMMIGRATION

Concept Map • Key Vocab• How to best use the map

What is immigration?

• KEY VOCABULARY!!!

• Immigration: the process of people establishing homes, and often citizenship, in a country that is not their native country.

Why immigration?

• Why would you leave your country?

• Why would you come to Canada?

Who immigrates?

• See the graph on page 167

• What does this say about why Canada wants immigrants?

• Take a look at the objectives at the bottom of the page• Identify 1 objective you think is most important for Canada when

accepting immigrants. Why?• Identify 1 objective you think is the least important for Canada when

accepting immigrants. Why?

Stranger Partners

• But there’s a reason that I haven’t talked to that person yet…

Questions

• In your partners, answer the following questions:

• What would be the hardest thing to adjust to if you immigrated somewhere?

• What should Canada do to help immigrants who have arrived in the country?

• Do you think Canada should have a more open or more closed immigration policy? Why?

Textbooks!

• KEY VOCAB!!!! On page 168

• Once done writing down definitions, proceed to the following tasks. To be handed in as formative assessment at the end of the class (on the same piece of paper)

• TASK 1:• Read the purple box in the bottom of the page. In your own words describe the

difference between a law and a policy.

• TASK 2:• Answer the bolded question at the top of the page after you have read the newspaper

article.

• TASK 3• Try and come up with one challenge that may also occur with increased immigration.

Why is this a challenge, how can we solve it?

When you get back

• You can put away your stuff…(one person needs a pen)• And sit with ONE person you want to work with (or I

guess 2 but definitely not 3, if you try that then you go on your own)