Queen’s University
ARE RESERVES LIMITING INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S UPWARD SOCIAL MOBILITY
Sarah Achakzai
DEVS 220 – Aboriginal Studies
Professor Robert Lovelace
Due April 7th, 2017 Indigenous people’s standard of living, secondary education, post-secondary education, employment, and family situations on reserves are at levels on par with many third world nations. Their estimated population is close to one million with about half of that number living on reserves. This research paper will explore whether it would be to the benefit of Indigenous people’s upward social mobility to live off the reserve. Social mobility is defined in one of two ways: structural mobility or exchange mobility. Structural mobility describes a person’s …show more content…
Each additional year of education, on average, equates to an extra 10% return in annual income. In comparison to non-Indigenous peoples, the on-reserve population’s educational attainment level and connected income tends to be lower. In 2006, the average household income for Indigenous people living on-reserve was $15,958 as compared to $36,000 for non-Indigenous Canadians. Moreover, the on-reserve Indigenous population’s median income was also lower, by 20%, than the off-reserve Indigenous …show more content…
With respect to the factors that indicate the likelihood of experiencing upward social mobility, the on-reserve population falls short in each. Moreover, with respect to the possession of these factors, the on-reserve population not only lags substantially behind the non-Indigenous off-reserve population, but, in many cases, also lags behind the off-reserve Indigenous population. This is telling not only because it illustrates the disparity in the likelihood of upward social mobility as between the on-reserve Indigenous population and the off-reserve non-Indigenous population, but because shows that the off-reserve Indigenous population also has a higher likelihood of experiencing upward social mobility when living
ARE RESERVES LIMITING INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S UPWARD SOCIAL MOBILITY
Sarah Achakzai
DEVS 220 – Aboriginal Studies
Professor Robert Lovelace
Due April 7th, 2017 Indigenous people’s standard of living, secondary education, post-secondary education, employment, and family situations on reserves are at levels on par with many third world nations. Their estimated population is close to one million with about half of that number living on reserves. This research paper will explore whether it would be to the benefit of Indigenous people’s upward social mobility to live off the reserve. Social mobility is defined in one of two ways: structural mobility or exchange mobility. Structural mobility describes a person’s …show more content…
Each additional year of education, on average, equates to an extra 10% return in annual income. In comparison to non-Indigenous peoples, the on-reserve population’s educational attainment level and connected income tends to be lower. In 2006, the average household income for Indigenous people living on-reserve was $15,958 as compared to $36,000 for non-Indigenous Canadians. Moreover, the on-reserve Indigenous population’s median income was also lower, by 20%, than the off-reserve Indigenous …show more content…
With respect to the factors that indicate the likelihood of experiencing upward social mobility, the on-reserve population falls short in each. Moreover, with respect to the possession of these factors, the on-reserve population not only lags substantially behind the non-Indigenous off-reserve population, but, in many cases, also lags behind the off-reserve Indigenous population. This is telling not only because it illustrates the disparity in the likelihood of upward social mobility as between the on-reserve Indigenous population and the off-reserve non-Indigenous population, but because shows that the off-reserve Indigenous population also has a higher likelihood of experiencing upward social mobility when living