East Indian Immigrants Problems in Canada. History Essay

East Indian Immigrants Problems in Canada
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Abstract
Canada like its neighbor the United States of America can be considered as one of the nations which heavily relied on the immigrant workers for their advanced industrial and social developments. Despite its newly reinforced norms of freedom, economic equalities, and rejection of racism the first generation of the immigrants fought hard to earn their present places in the society. This research focuses on the immigrants belonging to the East Indian origin their immigration history, new generation of immigrants and their problems and formulates some recommendations to resolve their issues. The current research can be used as a reference for academic and administrative institutes as a reference for future developments.
East Indian Immigrant Problems in Canada
1 Introduction
Owing to the rapid developments taking place at global level after the 1990’s and the Liberal Government’s high standards for immigration to keep up with the challenging economic and political developments have attracted a lot of immigrant populations from the world. The scholars noted that the rapid influx of the immigrants in the Canadian territories has introduced diverse social, economic, and religious systems in the country. The local communities are introduced to diversified cultural norms. It is observed that most of the immigrant population take their places in both urban and out-urban communities. There are some migrant communities which directly accommodate themselves into the existing housing structure while some of them create their own little settlements. The immigrants from South Asia are the most diverse and make up the majority of the immigrant population in the country. The South Asian community is highly diversified, however, the term “South Asian” generalizes a lot of the societies which are different to each other in terms of social, religious, family, and economic structures. The following table summarizes the social, religious, and economic diversification with their migration dates to Canada.
Table 1: Diverse Nature of South Asian Immigrants (Islam et.al, 2017, 2017).
The focus of this research is the East Indian communities residing at both sides of the Indian and Bangladeshi borders. The people divided by the border share the same cultural, social, religious, and family values and therefore can be considered as a single community.
1.2 Population Profile
Bangladesh is a sovereign country having a population of 1.5 million people making it one of the 10 most populated countries in the world. Despite several economic and industrial reforms the almost 30% of the country’s population lives under the poverty line (Islam et.al, 2017, 2017). The DPG US$958 per capita is the lowest for any South Asian country (Islam et.al, 2017, 2017). Despite the extreme economic, infrastructural, and negative environmental effects the country is experience a sustainable economic development of almost 6% per year. The 13% of the GDP is sent by the Bangladeshi population living outside in the regions like the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and the Middle East (Islam et.al, 2017, 2017). The East Indian regions also incl...