Black Domestic Workers in Canada Research Paper by Quality Writers

Black Domestic Workers in Canada
The paper examines the importation of black domestic servants from the Caribbean to Canada in the 1900s.
# 103917 | 2,093 words | 6 sources | APA | 2008 | US
Published on May 29, 2008 in African-American Studies (Gender) , Canadian Studies (Gender, Race, Class issues) , Women Studies (General)


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The paper reveals that domestic workers in Canada today face most of the problems that the Caribbean women faced a hundred years ago. The paper relates that from the early 1900s, female domestic workers were recruited from Guadeloupe and the British Caribbean to accommodate demand for cheap domestic labour. The paper discusses the "Domestic Scheme" where a very small number of candidates were admitted into Canada as domestic help. The paper highlights how Canada's immigration policies were, until a few decades ago, very racist and sexist.

From the Paper:

"Even though Canada has had a black population since the 1700s, much of its immigration policies, until the 1960s, have been prejudiced against black people and people of colour in general. Black people came to Canada as slaves, and then as fugitives running and escaping from the slavery in the USA, one it was abolished in the British Empire. Many were farmers that worked their own land. But as Brand (1991) points out, "the abolition of slavery did not eradicate racism as an organizing principle within the social, economic and political life of Canada and the USA" (p. 14)."

Sample of Sources Used:

  • Macklin, A. (1994) On the Inside Looking In: Foreign Domestic Workers in Canada. In W. Giles & S. Arat-Koc (Eds.). Maid in the market: Women's Paid Domestic Labor (13-39). Fernwood Publishing.
  • Shadd, A. (1994). "The Lord seemed to say 'Go'": Women and the Underground Railroad Movement. In P. Bristow (coord.). "We're Rooted here and They Can't Pull Us up": Essays in African Canadian Women's History (41-68). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Roberts, B. (1988). Whence They Came: Deportation from Canada 1990-1935. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press
  • Brand, D. (1991). No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario 1920s-1950s. Toronto: Women's Press
  • Calliste, A. (1994). Race, Gender and Canadian Immigration Policy: Blacks from the Caribbean, 1900-1932. Journal of Canadian Studies. 28 (4), 131-148

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APA Format

Black Domestic Workers in Canada (2008, May 29) Retrieved September 24, 2023, from https://www.academon.com/research-paper/black-domestic-workers-in-canada-103917/

MLA Format

"Black Domestic Workers in Canada" 29 May 2008. Web. 24 September. 2023. <https://www.academon.com/research-paper/black-domestic-workers-in-canada-103917/>

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