Ninette Kelley's scientific contributions

... Prior to World War II, Canada had a "Keep Canada White" policy through exclusionary immigration policies in which preferred countries included the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, and the United States. Racialized British subjects from South Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean were less desirable and were typically denied migration into Canada (Haque 2012;Kelley and Trebilcock 2010;Thobani 2007). In the 1960s however, the Canadian government was motivated to liberalize state borders because of three interrelated factors: firstly, the flow of British immigrants dropped significantly; secondly, Canada's economy was flourishing in multiple sectors and required a labour force to meet growing demands, and thirdly, Canada was experiencing international pressures to retain its reputation as a tolerant, generous, and humane nationstate (Haque 2012;Thobani 2007). ...