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Welcoming Communities: The role of host communities in attracting, integrating, & retaining newcomers and minorities
 
The extent to which a society is able to integrate/include immigrants, refugees and minorities depends on a number of societal conditions, some of which can be effectively altered by government policy. This policy research priority will examine what public policy instruments can enhance the capacity of Canada, its cities and communities to receive and integrate immigrants, refugees, and minorities and will seek empirically determined best practices that can be adapted for use in other contexts.

 

Metropolis Liaison:
Barry Halliday
Barry.Halliday@cic.gc.ca,
613-946-5034

Laure Lafrance
Laure.lafrance@cic.gc.ca,
613-957-5848

  Priority Leader:
Chedly Belkhodja,
Université de Moncton
Chedly.belkhodja@umoncton.ca
  Domain Leaders:
Darren Lund,
University of Calgary
dlund@ucalgary.ca
  Annick Lenoir,
Université de Sherbrooke
annick.lenoir@usherbrooke.ca
  Michèle Vatz Laaroussi,
Université de Sherbrooke
michele.vatz-laaroussi@usherbrooke.ca
 

Nicole Gallant,
Université de Moncton
Nicole.gallant@umoncton.ca 

   
 

Abdolmohammad Kazemipur. Social Trust, Ethnic Diversity, and Immigrants:
The Case of Canada.
Complete document

 

Ather Akbari and Jennifer S. Harrington. Initial Location Choice of
New Immigrants to Canada
.
Complete document

 

Sin Ye Teo. Vancouver’s Newest Chinese Diaspora:
Settlers or “Immigrant Prisoners”?
Complete document


 
Memorandum of understanding
Priority overview & research questions
 


Research report

Immigration in the New Rural Economy

Regional Immigration and Dispersal: Lessons from Small- and Medium-sized Urban Centres in British Columbia

Immigrant Attraction and Retention: What Can Work and What is Being Done in Atlantic Canada?


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