Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal articles from September 1998

Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal archives from September 1998

Canadian immigration and immigrant adaptation at the millennium. (Introduction).
September 22, 1998... ********** Immigration has built, shaped and re-shaped the Canadian nation. The acceptance of some applicants but not others, the dispersal, placement and settlement of newcomers, their mesh with the perceived needs of the new environment,...

Devaluation of foreign credentials as perceived by visible minority professional immigrants. (1).(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1998... ABSTRACT/RESUME Visible minority immigrants with professional qualifications trained outside of Canada often encounter barriers in the Canadian labour force. Sometimes, such barriers are described as immigrants lacking Canadian experience...

Prejudice, profit, or productivity: Explaining returns to human capital among male immigrants to Canada. (1).(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1998... ABSTRACT/RESUME This paper compares the occupational and earnings attainments of male immigrants to Canada to those of native-born men to test explanations based on prejudice/discrimination, competitive market, and national origin-related...

Diminishing returns to immigration? Interpreting the economic experience of Canadian immigrants.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1998... ABSTRACT/RESUME Concern over "diminishing returns" to immigration in Canada centres on the declining "quality" of recent cohorts of immigrants. Greater priority assigned to family and refugee classes at the expense of independent or...

A Latin-American parents' group participates in their children's schooling: Parent involvement reconsidered.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1998... ABSTRACT/RESUME Ethnicity, with race, gender and class is a critical determinant in a number of social institutional interactions. This paper looks at a group of Latin American parents as they become more effective within a mainstream...

Breaking through the glass ceiling. The pursuit of university training among African-Caribbean migrants and their children in Toronto.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1998... ABSTRACT/RESUME This paper examines the pursuit of university studies among Caribbean-origin Black men and women aged 20-24 living in Toronto. Findings from special tabulations of the 1991 census show that a significant proportion of young...

Shifts in ethnic origins among the offspring of immigrants: Is ethnic mobility a measurable phenomenon?(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1998... ABSTRACT/RESUME It has been shown in both sociological and anthropological literature that ethnic groups are defined by boundaries that are based on objective and subjective criteria. Furthermore, this literature shows that the boundaries...

Bicommunalism and the bifurcation of the immigration system.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1998... ABSTRACT/RESUME This paper examines the bifurcated nature of the immigration system in Canada, the factors that have produced it, and the effects that it has had on planning and managing immigration, federal-provincial relations, and the...

Citizenship concepts among francophone immigrants in Ontario.
September 22, 1998... ABSTRACT/RESUME The recent influx of French-speaking immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean into Ontario is redefining what it means to be a minority francophone in that province. This process is breaking down the old dichotomy of...

Welcome/Stay Out. The contradiction of Canadian integration and immigration policies at the millennium. (1).
September 22, 1998... ABSTRACT/RESUME This paper examines the politics surrounding the history, evolution and trajectory of policy regarding immigration and the place of immigrants in Canadian society. The main focus is on the first mandate of the federal...