02932nam 2200613Ia 450 991077953810332120230126203323.00-7735-8839-610.1515/9780773588394(CKB)2550000001039471(EBL)3332580(SSID)ssj0000950557(PQKBManifestationID)12421525(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000950557(PQKBWorkID)11011381(PQKB)10618811(CEL)444752(OCoLC)842262458(CaBNVSL)slc00232118(MiAaPQ)EBC3332580(Au-PeEL)EBL3332580(CaPaEBR)ebr10679106(OCoLC)923238705(DE-B1597)657479(DE-B1597)9780773588394(EXLCZ)99255000000103947120121220d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPassage to promise land[electronic resource] voices of Chinese immigrant women to Canada /Vivienne PoyMontreal McGill-Queen's University Press20131 online resource (287 p.)0-7735-4149-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.1 Introduction -- 2 Reuniting Families -- 3 The Formation of Chinese Canadian Identity -- 4 Picture Brides, Paper Sons, and Paper Daughters -- 5 Enter Those with Education and Language Skills -- 6 They Came for Higher Education -- 7 Multiculturalism and Chinese Canadian Identity -- 8 Racism and Business Immigration -- 9 Women in the New Chinese Canadian Communities -- 10 Conclusion -- Afterword -- Appendices. 1 Interviewees ; 2 The Points System ; 3 Changes in Name of the Department of Immigration ; 4 Legislation and Regulations Pertaining to the Chinese, 1867-1990.This book is the study of Chinese immigration to Canada from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Traces the evolution of immigration policy through the stories of Chinese immigrant women. It also shows how the Chinese community developed alongside changes in immigration regulations, and why the immigration of Chinese families to Canada became commonplace in the 1970s. It includes the very first mention of Chinese women's immigration in Canada's Parliament in 1879, to the end of the twentieth century.ChineseCanadaInterviewsWomen immigrantsCanadaInterviewsWomen immigrantsCanadaSocial conditions20th centuryChineseWomen immigrantsWomen immigrantsSocial conditions305.48/4120971Poy Vivienne1941-879381MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779538103321Passage to promise land3670812UNINA