Indians' reverse immigration and the caste factor

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Indians’ reverse immigration and the caste factor
Summary
India has one of the largest populations in the world. They are also historically significant due to the caste system. The caste systems were social segregations in the Indian society where some of the groups got the right to hold higher social status and the other such as the Dalits were the lowest. This segregation preyed even on the future generation, turning it into a birth right curse. The British are said to have played part in the set up during the colonization and the succeeding government formalized the same. Most of the Indians that migrated to Canada left for the job opportunities it offered and there is a faction that left due to the discriminatory system that would enslave them for generations (Gupta 15). Toronto is one of the largest cities in Canada and holds the highest population of Indians, making it the best research location. The study tries to establish the historical significance of the caste system among the Indians living in Canada, linking the same to the likely fear that they may face going back to their mother country now that it is a booming economy (Omvedt 22).
The informational gap
The history of the Indians gracing the Canadian lands dates back to the twentieth century. The Indian developed the interest of coming to Canada quite early and some of the traces indicate that during the time that they came through Canada from the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria in London. They later on in the year 1902 passed through the lands coming from Edward VII coronation. The fist trace of immigration is set to have taken place about 1903, when the first immigrants came to Vancouver and the rest came to Victoria.
Most of the immigrants at the time were Sikhs and came to work in the lumber camps as logger while other worked in the railway building. By the year 2001, there were more than 297,000 half of whom were living in Toronto at the time. Today there are more than one million Indians in Canada. Most of the immigrants have settled in the Ontario province at the average of 700,000. Toronto city that is within the Ontario province has the highest number of Indian immigrants totaling to about 600,000. Most of the Indians in Canada now hold some crucial position in the Canadian economy, among the most prevalent fields include medicine, engineering and management among other specialty industries. Canada has been one of the most vigilant countries in the east that has been sourcing skilled labor from India, competing with other nations such as the USA, UK and Australia. The reason for the competitive edge is the immigration laws that are not as strict as those of the other nations (Barry, 42).
Most of the material that exists, indicates that majority of the immigrants are looking for a better place to live given that the Indian system is quite poor (Gail, 244). In Canada the immigrants can get better jobs and pay for their skills and accorded health care benefits for them and their children, something that is alien in India. There exists very little information about the fact that some of the immigrants are running away from the caste system that binds them to low social and economic status for the rest of their lives and for generations to come. For the Dalits they are not supposed to hold important positions in the society and have to make do with the menial jobs such as handling the human waste, the dead animals and there are times they have been punished for letting their shadow fall on a member of the higher caste. According to one of the immigrant in the article by (Cheryl) even after moving to Canada, she is still confronted with the issue of caste. For the fresh immigrants it is even harder as the have to contend with the discrimination from the other races and their own Indian counter parts that call then derogatory names such as banana.
While the caste system was banned in India for more than 60 years ago, the roots of the degenerative culture are still strong and in play (Ghurye 73). Historically the caste system is said to have been set up by the British, in an attempt to offer jobs and other positions to a certain group of people in the Indian society. Although the practice in now banned by the Indian constitution, there are traces that are significant especially with reference to the Dalits, who were socially untouchable. One of the interests in this paper is the fact that, there are indications of the caste system having been brought into the Canadian soil by the Indian. Most of the Indian that escape the system roots in India come Canada only to find that still impedes their growth economically and socially. The Dalits were among the lowest social classes in India and as such would be discriminated against. In Canada most of the information that exists relates to the discrimination of the immigrant, but very little evidence exists on the Dalits discrimination. In the British lower mainland of Columbia, most of the Indians are faced with the questions of the village where they came from and their family names (Dhooleka, 118). These two are the markers of a Dalit as they are secluded to certain villages and their last family name is suggestive of their caste.
The immigration woes have been related to the fact that the government has been too untailored about the immigration of the Indian with skills. This has led to an uproar from the natives who claim that the immigrants are taking up all their chances of landing a job, and thus feel that the government is treating the immigrants better that than its own native citizens. With the complication of the discrimination claims, it is not clear if the caste system actually exists and if it does, if it is perpetrated by the Indians or the natives (Mosher 56). For most of the Dalits in Canada they have chosen to change their names for the fear of loosing out on their businesses and social status. If customers knew that the immigrants ...