- — North America:
Official multiculturalism policy
Canada became the first country to adopt multiculturalism as official government policy, within a bilingual framework, recognising the contributions of diverse cultural communities.
Era: Modern Canada — multiculturalism, patriation, and reconciliation
Sources: Canadian Multiculturalism Policy, 1971 · Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, Canadian Multiculturalism Act · The Canadian Encyclopedia
- — Africa:
Expulsion of the Asian community
Amin orders the roughly 80,000 South Asians in Uganda to leave within about ninety days, seizing their property and businesses and devastating the economy.
Era: Idi Amin and the War that Ousted Him
Sources: Expulsion of Asians from Uganda · Wikipedia, Ugandan Asians: 50 years since their expulsion from Uganda · UK House of Lords Library
Peoples & Migration in the 1970s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 1970s — 2 of them, drawn from 2 nations, running from 1971 to 1972. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 2
- Nations
- 2
- Earliest
- 1971
- Latest
- 1972
- Africa
- 1
- North America
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.