Closed windows, open doors: Geopolitics and post-1949 Mainland Chinese immigration to Canada

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 306-319

  Liu, Xiao Feng ^a   Norcliffe, Glen ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Family reunification; Geopolitics; Migration; OM IS 399 policy; People's Republic of China; Tiananmen Square incident

Indexed keywords

POLITICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; ASIA; CANADA; CHINA; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DESTINATION; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EASTERN ASIA; FAR EAST; IMMIGRANTS; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; MIGRANTS; MIGRATION; MIGRATION POLICY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; ORIGIN; POLICY; POLITICAL FACTORS; POLITICS; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION POLICY; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; ASIA; CANADA; CHINA; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DESTINATION; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EASTERN ASIA; IMMIGRANTS; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; MIGRANTS; MIGRATION; MIGRATION POLICY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; ORIGIN; POLICY; POLITICAL FACTORS; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION POLICY; SOCIAL POLICY;

AMERICAS; ASIA; CANADA; CHINA; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FAR EAST; NORTH AMERICA; POLITICS; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUBLIC POLICY; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 0030298888     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.1996.tb00459.x     Document Type: Article

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