Current Research
The list of current projects includes research undertaken by the Welcoming Communities Initiative which is now the Ontario Node of the P2P. Clicking Read More offers research overviews, project leaders, timelines, and deliverables.
Senior immigrants arrive with a wealth of experience, knowledge, and skills, but these may remain largely underutilized after they arrive in Canada. This project will assess the need for ESL and FSL language training programs for immigrant seniors in Ottawa. It will also identify partners able to deliver such programs. A key research interest is whether the social, civic and economic integration of immigrant seniors plays out the same way for different ethnic, cultural and religious groups, and the role that language plays in these processes. In addition, an important question is whether integration plays out differently in Francophone minority communities.
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Policy and debates around immigration over the last two decades have focused on immigrants’ capacity to make meaningful contributions to the Canadian economy. This paper uses the Longitudinal Immigrant Data Base (IMDB) to analyze the economic outcomes of five cohorts of economic and family sponsored immigrants to Canada and Nova Scotia between 1990-1994 and 2010-2012. We specifically examine how economic and non-economic category immigrants fare in terms of economic outcomes and what are their rates of employment and average earnings.
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Recent arrivals obtain lower wages than similarly skilled native-born and earlier immigrant cohorts, are less likely than previous cohorts to enter into professional occupations commensurate with their education, and rarely enter their intended occupations.
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A List of P2P's Co-Investigator Led Projects
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Depuis ses débuts, VVP a conduit de nombreuses recherches et a travaillé étroitement avec les Partenariats Locaux en matière d’Immigration (PLI) et d’autres initiatives locales. Par conséquent, nous sommes très heureux de travailler sur un nouveau projet pour CIC qui promouvra les activités,…
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La Direction générale de l’intégration de CIC a demandé à VVP de produire cinq courtes vidéos examinant les pratiques prometteuses des PLI dans les champs stratégiques suivants :
Promotion des communautés accueillantes (favorisant les attitudes positives envers les immigrants)
Implication…
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Voies vers la prospérité est heureux d’annoncer un partenaire avec Career Edge (un organisme sans but lucratif qui s’occupe de trouver des stages payés à des professionnels formés à l’étranger et à des Canadiens) au travers du soutien au travail de Rui Zhang, post-doctorant à l’Université…
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