History 2703F/G: The Cultural Mosaic and the Melting Pot

Course Description

This course explores immigration to Canada and the United States, assessing “cultural mosaic” and “melting pot” as ways of viewing immigration processes in the respective nations. We examine both immigrant and host society expectations, acculturation processes, and state regulation. Questions include: to what extent and why have Canada and the United States sought immigrants ? Who came to these nations ? Why ? What have they experienced ? Who was welcomed ? If not welcome, when and why? How has immigration shaped the two nations ?

Required Text

Leonard Dinnerstein and David Reimers, Ethnic Americans: Immigration and American Society. 5 edition, ( New York, Columbia th University Press, 2009)
Valerie Knowles, Strangers at Our Gates: Canadian Immigration and Immigration Policy, 1540 -2007. rev. ed. (Toronto: Dundurn, 2007)

Evaluation

Class participation - 20 %
Essay proposal / tentative sources - 5 %
Essay -  40 %
Final Exam - 35 %

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