Closed windows, open doors: geopolitics and post-1949 Mainland Chinese immigration to Canada
Liu X-f; Norcliffe, G.
Canadian Geographer. Geographe Canadien 40(4): 306-319
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0008-3658 PMID: 12292966 Document Number: 308034
"Since 1949 there have been dramatic changes in the flow of migrants from Mainland China to Canada, which existing structural models of migration, emphasizing factors in the destination country, do not fully capture. Conditions in the country of origin, and geopolitical relationships between China and Canada, played a decisive role in this migration.... Changing geopolitical circumstances led China to develop an open-door policy between 1973 and 1989, leading to increasing flows of migrants to Canada. The political response in Canada to the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 was to allow all Chinese students and workers in Canada to stay, if they so wished.... The result was a large inflow making MCIS the third-largest group of immigrants to Canada in the early 1990s." (EXCERPT)