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Metropolis is an international network for comparative research and public policy development
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Immigration Trends, Language Skills and the Labour Market Integration of Recent Immigrants

Having proficiency in the destination country language is an important form of human capital that assists in the labour force integration of immigrants. Using Citizenship and Immigration annual flow data and information from the 2006 Canada census, the sociologist Monica Boyd has developed a presentation that provides answers to the following two questions:

1) What are the changes over time in the English/French language skills of recent immigrants and how are they linked to the management of Canada’s immigration?

2) What is the relationship between English/French proficiency and labour market outcomes, such as labour force participation, unemployment, part-time work, occupation, weeks worked, earnings and employment in linguistic enclaves? The findings update earlier research, confirming again that low levels of language proficiency in destination country languages are strongly associated with unfavorable labour market outcomes. These outcomes are disproportionately experienced by recently arrived immigrants, who increasing originate from non-European and U.S. countries.

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Call for Submissions: Special Issue on the Settlement and Integration of
Newcomers to Canada ~ Canadian Social Work Journal

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Immigration and Diversity: Crossroads of Cultures,
Engine of Economic Development
Montréal, March 18-21, 2010

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Mapping Social Cohesion 2009 is a report on the second round of an extremely important longitudinal survey of social cohesion in Australia, funded by the Scanlon Foundation, and directed by Professor Andrew Markus of Monash University in Melbourne. The first report was released in 2007 at the International Metropolis Conference in Melbourne.

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• Metropolis Presents: How Could Canadian Communities Be More Welcoming?
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The Canadian economy is now deep in recession. What we don't know is how long and how deep this recession will be and what impact it will have on immigration to Canada and upon immigrants now here. We asked our Metropolis experts for their opinion on the impact of the recession on permanent and temporary migration flows to Canada, on return migration trends, and on the economic integration of recent immigrants (less than 5 years) in the Canadian labour market. Can we expect to see trends similar to those of the early 90s recession? How will Canada's experience compare to that of the US, whose immigration levels have dropped in the last year? Here is what our experts had to say..
 

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International Migration and the Governance of Religious Diversity
Edited by: Paul Bramadat and Matthias Koenig
Our Diverse Cities
Prairies Region
Guest Editor: T.Carter,
T. Derwing, L. Ogilvie,
and T. Wotherspoon
Canadian Diversity:
Citizenship in the 21st Century
Guest Editor:
Daniel M. Weinstock