Immigration as Substitution for Higher Birth Rates and Pronatalism

Immigration is a complex area of public policy. It touches upon questions of population size and distribution, economic development, labour recruitment, nation building, culture, language, ethnicity, race, human rights, international relations, and the discriminatory treatment of women as dependants of their migrating husbands, foreign domestic workers or the physical reproducers (‘breeders’) of specific ethnic and national collectivities. Unlike Great Britain, which regards immigration negatively, as a potential threat to national integration, Canada and Australia have long promoted immigration as a positive feature of national development. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.