A national alliance dedicated to providing an evidence base for newcomer settlement & integration and the promotion of welcoming communities in Canada
Dresser un portrait général des sources d’information utilisées par les immigrants pour favoriser leur intégration au Québec, dans le but de contextualiser les sources d’information utilisées pour l’insertion professionnelle. Stephanie Atkin MA/MSc / Maitrise es arts/Maitrise es science Supervisor: Nicole Gallant Urbanisation Culture Société Institut…
L’objectif de cette thèse est de comprendre le rôle des réseaux sociaux et de la discrimination dans les parcours professionnels et migratoires des immigrantes maghrébines hautement scolarisées établies dans la ville de Québec. Pour ce faire, deux cadres conceptuels sont alliés : la nouvelle sociologie…
Des études tendent à dire que l’immigration des pays du Nord vers le Sud augmenterait le sentiment d’autonomie des femmes et les amènerait à actualiser des attitudes tendant vers l’égalité entre les hommes et les femmes. Au Canada, le Québec est la seconde province à…
The objective of this doctoral thesis is to understand the roles played by social networks and discrimination in the migration and professional trajectories of highly educated North African female immigrants living in Quebec City. To achieve this, two conceptual frameworks are used: the new economic…
Some research suggests that immigration from the global South to the global North increases feelings of empowerment for women and leads them to actualize their attitudes concerning equality between men and women. In Canada, Quebec is the second largest receiving province of immigrants every year….
This thesis is an exploratory work on the migration and settlement experiences of highly skilled Turkish migrants who have settled in Canada. It is a qualitative study conducted with sixteen immigrant respondents living in Halifax and Toronto. The focus of this work is the role…
This research project examines the economic integration of immigrants to Canada, specifically their saving and investment behaviour. This study extends the concept of saving to include home ownership and adds a cultural dimension to the act of saving. Traditional economics papers analyzing saving behaviour look…
The study explains variations in the success of subnational immigration programmes in Canada and Australia. Under these programmes, subnational units have the right to select migrants to meet their regional economic and/or demographic needs. This study defines success in three ways and uses different data…
The paper queries discrimination against women emigrating from Jamaica, West Indies to Canada after the 1973 Employment Temporary Authorization changes. Having no landed status, coupled with limited ability to access the legitimate job market, kept several women captive and subject to precarious employment in undesirable…
International students, as skilled workers, are vital to the development of Newfoundland and Labrador. This study aimed to investigate the trends in these students’ post-graduation settlement plans, as well as the factors in their settlement decisions. The findings reveal that some aspects of life in…