Project Description: Among immigrants with no or little English, those working in low-skilled occupations in smaller cities are more likely to feel socially and culturally isolated. They may also find themselves in precarious employment situations, more exposed to external factors such as economic recessions and down-sizing.   Interviews will be conducted with immigrants with no [...]

Project Description: This project identifies and reviews scientific research in both official languages on evidence of links between immigrants’ country of origin, immigrant class, and integration outcomes. The goal is to provide information on which segments of the immigrant population would benefit the most from enhanced orientation to life in Canada, whether provided overseas or [...]

Project Description: The goal of this project is to synthesize the literature published between 2005 and 2011 on how information can be used to address settlement and integration barriers experienced by newcomers to Canada. The project focuses primarily on academic articles, chapters, and books that describe the results of research in which newcomers, or individuals [...]

Project Description: The objective of this research is to analyse pathways for internationally educated health professionals who have been formally educated in their chosen profession but do not have the required educational, professional, or language requirements to enter their professions in Canada. To help bridge gaps identified through professional assessment processes and transition internationally educated [...]

Project Description: This research includes the design, implementation, and analysis of a survey of recent newcomers to Alberta examining their experiences with settlement services in the province and their integration outcomes. Our sample includes roughly 1,000 immigrants to Alberta, 18 years of age and over, who have been living in the province for a period [...]

Project Description: This pilot project focuses on two specific target groups in Hamilton and Thunder Bay: second generation newcomer youth and Aboriginal youth. The research will focus on two main questions: 1) what are second generation newcomer and Aboriginal youths’ experiences with the police?; and 2) what impact do these experiences have on their attitudes [...]

Project Description: The Museum-making project will study the creation of museums and public cultural/history exhibitions developed by immigrant communities. It will look at ‘museum-making’ as a process through which ethnic communities and newcomers make sense of and reconfigure their ideas about heritage, identity and belonging. An inventory of museum and heritage sites and projects will [...]

Project Description: This project will identify what immigrant youth in a second-tier Ontario city envision as a healthy community, one in which they would want to live, and where they can participate fully in civic life. The project aims to develop relationships with local immigrant youth and to include them as partners in the research [...]

Project  Description: This project involves four case studies of the evolving relationship between the LIPs and municipal governments.  The aim of the study is to document the LIP-municipal interactions and to establish their potential contribution to five CIC strategic objectives having to do with: (i) better long-term integration and enhanced social, political and civic engagement; (ii) [...]

Project Description: This study collates data on a number of indictors of a welcoming community. These include employment opportunities, educational opportunities, affordable and suitable housing, attitudes toward immigrants and cultural diversity, presence of newcomer-serving agencies, accessible public transit, accessible and suitable healthcare, municipal features and services sensitive to the needs of newcomers, and fostering of [...]