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Volume 2, Issue 13, June 2010

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 Recent activities in the Metropolis Priority Areas


Citizenship and Social, Cultural
and Civic Integration

Priority Update

Feature:

Social Capital Formation and Diversity in Canadian Cities

 

ABSTRACT:

Urban disparity is as much a social problem as it is an ethnic one. This is an important starting point of authors, Xavier Leloup and Philippe Apparicio. Their overview highlights shortcomings of research methods used in the wake of the Bouchard/Taylor Commission’s consultations on accommodation of cultural differences and subsequent riots in Montreal that point to rife and poverty in particular neighbourhoods. The authors argue that research describing the high ethnic concentration in Montreal (in comparison to Toronto or Vancouver) has employed inadequate definitions and research methods. A wider selection of indicators such as evenness of group distribution, exposure to other ethnicities, concentration, clustering, isolation, and degree of mix of groups provide for a more accurate rendering of Montreal’s ethnic settlement patterns. From this starting point, the significance of Montreal’s high rate of poverty and the uneven distributed of poverty across the city can be more fully assessed, toward better informed policy responses to poverty and housing barriers faced by immigrants.

 

Fernando Mata - Canadian Heritage
Ravi Pendakur - University of Ottawa
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Family, Children, Youth
Priority Update

Feature:

Canadian Guidelines for
Immigrant Health

 

ABSTRACT:

Research has shown a “healthy immigrant effect” amongst newly arrived immigrants and refugees to Canada. This is largely due to immigrant health screenings. However, a post-arrival decline in health status occurs among, in particular, refugees, low-income immigrants, immigrants with poor English or French language skills, those with cost related barriers to health care and non-European immigrants.Metropolis research affiliate Kevin Pottie (University of Ottawa) along with a large team of medical doctors and researchers from across Canada have recently released clinical preventive care recommendations and guidelines for health practitioners who work with immigrants and refugees. The June 2010 Canadian Medical Association Journal describes theirresearch and presents recommendations for improving the health outcomes of immigrants. Stemming from the work completed by the Canadian Collaboration for Immigrant and Refugee Health research team, the guidelines detailed in the article result from rigorous evidence based methods that are aimed at complementing existing public health approaches. The research from this unique collaboration also identifies areas that require further investigation related to immigrant populations’ health access and health services.Pottie et al’s research findings and guidelines speak directly to policies related to screenings and examinations of the health of immigrants and refugees. The research demonstrates gaps in health examinations, offers descriptive syntheses of the literature in the field, and explains the current inequities in the knowledge of the health needs and services of immigrants and refugees in Canada. The Canadian Guidelines for Immigrant Health aim to “provide a foundation for improved preventive health care for immigrant populations” which can then contribute to developing strong policies and programs for serving the health needs of immigrants and refugees in Canada.

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Justice, Policing and Security
Priority Update

Feature:

Trafficking in Persons and Transit Countries:

 

ABSTRACT:

This Metropolis British Columbia working paper outlines the findings and implications of a case study into trafficking in persons between Canada and the United States. The author argues that Canada is a significant transit country owing to its proximity to the United States and a combination of liberal immigration policies and insufficient legislation and weak enforcement against trafficking in persons and migrant smuggling.
       This paper offers measurable criteria to assess efforts by transit countries to combat trafficking in persons. The paper also supports a larger goal of enhancing global assessments of governmental responses to the problem. The author proposes six recommendations to improve the joint response of Canada and the United States in efforts to combat this increasingly pervasive and alarming form of migration crime.

Metropolis British Columbia

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Welcoming Communities
Priority Update

Feature:

“Instrumental” Integration of Immigrants in the Estrie Region

 

ABSTRACT:

In this article, Annick Lenoir-Achdjian reflects on immigrant integration in the Estrie region, using sociodemographic data on the area and city of Sherbrooke, as well as concrete examples of local integration practices. The integration of immigrants, she argues, is not just the responsibility of a single government department or a few local institutions; it depends on the combined efforts of public decision‑makers, community representatives, employers, and the local population. A welcoming and open attitude on the part of the host society is beneficial in the long term because it gives immigrants the time to find their place in their new society. Greater effort must therefore be made to raise the awareness of employers and the general public in order to sensitize them to the importance of immigration for the economic, social and cultural development of Quebec and Canada, as well as to the role that they can play to help immigrants integrate.

Annick Lenoir-Achdjian
Université de Sherbrooke

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Economic and Labour
Market Integration

Priority Update

Feature:

Does Returning to School After immigration affect Labour market Outcomes for Immigrants?

 

ABSTRACT:

Faced with issues in credential recognition and difficulties in finding employment, many immigrants enrol in university courses, college programs and other educational endeavours after their arrival in Canada. Statistics Canada reports that recent immigrants with a university degree are nearly three times more likely than Canadian-born individuals to be enrolled in school or training programs. This report by several Metropolis researchers at the Toronto Immigrant Employment Data Initiative (TIEDI) uses data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrant to Canada to discover whether returning to school after immigration improves labour market performance in terms of income, labour force participation and unemployment levels.
       The authors find that while they often take longer to find employment, particularly among immigrants pursuing higher degrees, immigrants who return to school are more likely to have higher earnings than other immigrants. A distinct gender gap exists, however, in that immigrant women who did not return to school were found to have less favourable labour market outcomes than immigrant men who did not return to school, as well as to all immigrants returning to school.
       While the findings of this report are based on a narrow time horizon, these results suggest a long-term benefit to supplemental Canadian education after arrival. However, the interrupted work careers, depreciated human capital while not working and the increased time taken to find employment for immigrants who return to school should not be ignored and should be a point of concern for future policy research.


TIEDI

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Housing and Neighbourhoods
Priority Update

Feature:

Montreal: A Multicultural City: Overview of Research on Ehtnic Converntration

 

ABSTRACT:

Urban disparity is as much a social problem as it is an ethnic one. This is an important starting point of authors, Xavier Leloup and Philippe Apparicio. Their overview highlights shortcomings of research methods used in the wake of the Bouchard/Taylor Commission’s consultations on accommodation of cultural differences and subsequent riots in Montreal that point to rife and poverty in particular neighbourhoods. The authors argue that research describing the high ethnic concentration in Montreal (in comparison to Toronto or Vancouver) has employed inadequate definitions and research methods. A wider selection of indicators such as evenness of group distribution, exposure to other ethnicities, concentration, clustering, isolation, and degree of mix of groups provide for a more accurate rendering of Montreal’s ethnic settlement patterns. From this starting point, the significance of Montreal’s high rate of poverty and the uneven distributed of poverty across the city can be more fully assessed, toward better informed policy responses to poverty and housing barriers faced by immigrants.



Xavier Leloup and Philippe Apparicio
INRS

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