Pathways to Prosperity: Canada

Date: May 31, 2015 until June 3, 2015.

Through varied but complementary themes, the C4i Conference is a meeting place for researchers, trainers, interveners/social practitioners, political and administrative representatives, practitioners and all those interested by migration, integration of migrants and inclusion. It is a space to share reflections, experiences, research, ideas and recommendations. The first aim of the 2015- C4i Congress is to consider integration from a dual approach; that is, both social and economic. Integration thus refers to the establishment of migrants, their employment integration, and the formal and informal strategies they use in the process. This Congress is also an occasion to reflect upon dimensions of integration rarely discussed: the civic and cultural participation of migrants, their relationship to unions, retirement, entrepreneurship, etc. Finally, the purpose of this Congress is also to analyse, the outcomes of migration on national and regional economies, social cohesion and social and cultural enrichment.


The general themes of the 2015 C4i Conference, which participants are encouraged to address in a bi-dimensional approach (where both migrants and host societies are understood to be responsible for the social and professional integration of migrants) are:

• Immigrant integration: meaning, measure, dimensions, “models,” conceptualizations.
• Empirical portraits of immigrants’ professional integration.
• The regionalisation of immigration: potential, experiences and challenges; roles and involvement of municipal institutions.
• Integration of linguistic minorities.
• Temporary migration: issues and repercussions.
• Immigration and integration policy: limits and future concerns.
• Civic participation of immigrants.
• How to integrate refugees?
• Immigration and economic repercussions for ‘receiving’ and ‘sending’ countries.
• International migration and globalization.
• Migration and ICT (information and communication technologies): issues and challenges.
• Immigrants and unionization: relationship, participation and concerns.
• Barriers to immigrant integration: recognition of skills and qualifications, linguistic dimensions, attitudes, discrimination, etc.
• Immigration and gender.
• Immigrants’ retirement projects.
• The role of social networks in the social and professional integration of immigrants.
• Integration strategies and migratory paths.

The 2015-C4i Congress is sponsored by Relations industrielles / Industrial relations, which will publish in the fall of 2016 a special issue on the socioprofessionnal integration of migrants.

Deadlines
1) March 2, 2015: deadline for sending either:

• A summary (no longer than 500 words) presenting the subject of the proposal, the methodology used and expected results.
• A proposal for a session (4 or 5 presentations) or a colloquium (1 or 2 days): the organizer must send the titles, names of the authors and a summary (no longer than 100 words) of each of the presentations within the session or colloquium.

2) March 13, 2015: participants notified of acceptance to C4i.
3) April 30th 2015: deadline to submit final papers, indicating intent to submit (or not) for publication in Relations industrielles / Industrial relations or in the Congress proceedings.
4) May 15th, 2015: deadline to submit final PowerPoint presentations.
Proposals must be sent to: c4i-2015@rlt.ulaval.ca