Pathways to Prosperity: Canada

L’immigration nécessite la redéfinition des rôles familiaux, la reconstruction du système familial et l’instauration d’une nouvelle identité paternelle fondée sur le maintien d’un équilibre entre le système culturel de la société d’accueil et celui du pays d’origine (Dyke et Soucier, 2000). Dans une approche méthodologique…

Immigrant success is often defined and described in terms of self-sufficiency. Migrants are regarded as successful in their settlement efforts when they achieve economic success. To this end, settlement programs are typically designed to ensure labour market readiness, with employment as their final objective. That…

With rigorous screening, newcomers entering Canada are known to be in better health than the average Canadian; however this declines after years of living in the country. Navigating the Canadian healthcare system (CHC) has proven to be a monumental obstacle course for immigrants nationwide due…

The purpose of this project is to examine the validity of the newly mandated Canadian Language Benchmark-based progress assessment in LINC entitled Portfolio-based Language Assessment (PBLA: Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks [CCLB], 2019) from BELLs’ and their instructors’ perspectives. This project will fill key gaps in the literature as validity evidence to support the use of PBLA in LINC from BELLs’ perspectives is currently lacking.

Often overlooked in the analysis of immigrant retention is the role that family members play as anchors in a community. The need to understand the role of the family in the immigration experience is considered critical by service providers and researchers, however, little empirical work…

This project is an attempt to answer two questions: 1) Why does a mismatch exist between the implied value of recent immigrants by national immigration policy and that implied by firm-level practices? 2) What can be done to fix it?

Although annual immigration levels in Canada have been between 200,000 to 300,000 persons annually since 2000, relatively few of those immigrants chose to live in NB. Of those that did, a significant proportion have subsequently left the province. With its relatively older population distribution, substantial…