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- Title
Race relations and minority groups: some convergences.
- Authors
Rex, John
- Abstract
Racial discrimination, racial oppression, the propagation of racist ideas and genocide have all been topics of international concern and sociologists have been called upon to delineate their field and indicate the major causal factors responsible for these phenomena. Initial colonial adventures were less orderly than those systematically organized by the chartered companies. In the case of the conquest of the Central American empires exploitation consisted in taking the gold away as booty, and in the case of some trade, the trader simply took advantage of his knowledge of distant markets to make a profit out of the native hunter or trapper. As time went on, however, the business of colonial exploitation became more systematically organized. While the absorption of immigrants has been a problem for the metropolitan economies and their working classes for a period of twenty-five years or so, depression in the metropolitan economies has involved a cessation of immigration. If capitalism recently recruited colonial labour because native-born metropolitan workers were unwilling or unsuitable, it now begins to look to the countries of origin of those immigrants as fields for investment.
- Subjects
MINORITIES; ETHNIC relations; EXPLOITATION of humans; INTERPERSONAL relations; EMIGRATION &; immigration; SOCIAL problems
- Publication
International Social Science Journal, 1981, Vol 33, Issue 2, p351
- ISSN
0020-8701
- Publication type
Article