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Caught between Two Worlds: Mainland Chinese Return Migration, Hukou Considerations and the Citizenship Dilemma

Author(s): Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho
Date: May, 2010
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

How do Mainland Chinese returnees (with Canadian citizenship) navigate China’s dual citizenship restriction and its implications for their hukou (household registration) status, which confers residency, working, and other social rights in China?

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Caught between Two Worlds: Mainland Chinese Return Migration, Hukou Considerations and the Citizenship Dilemma

Author(s): Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho
Date: May, 2010
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

How do Mainland Chinese returnees (with Canadian citizenship) navigate China’s dual citizenship restriction and its implications for their hukou (household registration) status, which confers residency, working, and other social rights in China?

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Trafficking in Persons and Transit Countries: A Canada-U.S. Case Study in Global Perspective

Author(s): Benjamin Perrin
Date: April, 2010
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

International trafficking in persons is often facilitated by the movement of victims through one or more transit countries in order to reach a destination country where the victim will ultimately be subjected to sexual exploitation or forced labour. Despite this recognized pattern, there has been a relative lack of attention paid to the response of transit countries in addressing their role in this transnational criminal activity and systematic human rights abuse. Furthermore, while Canada has been cited as a transit country for human trafficking to the United States, the nature and extent of this phenomenon remains under-researched. This working paper examines the role of transit countries in international trafficking in persons and seeks to identify legal and policy approaches to improve the abilities of these transit countries to confront this problem, with a particular focus on the Canada/U.S. case study.

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The Integration and Inclusion of Newcomers in British Columbia

Author(s): Daniel Hiebert and Kathy Sherrell
Date: November, 2009
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

How is the system of settlement services for newcomers structured in British Columbia, and how has that system changed in the past decade? What kinds of services are offered to new immigrants, and by whom? What role do non-government organizations (NGOs) play in service delivery and how has this been changing? Finally, what are the major gaps in the settlement service system?

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Citizenship, Co-ethnic Populations and Employment Probabilities of Immigrants in Sweden

Author(s): Pieter Bevelander and Ravi Pendakur
Date: September, 2009
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

The aim of this paper is to explore the link between citizenship and employment integration of immigrants in Sweden controlling for a range of demographic, human capital, and municipal characteristics such as city and co-immigrant population size.

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India-Canada trade and immigration linkages: A case of regional (dis)advantage?

Author(s): Margaret Walton-Roberts
Date: June, 2009
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

How effectively do national governments utilize the skills of immigrants to enhance trading relations with their source countries? How does the policy and regional context inform this process?

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Temporary Foreign Workers and Regional Labour Market Disparities in Canada

Author(s): Dominique M. Gross and Nicolas Schmitt
Date: June, 2009
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

Do temporary foreign workers have an impact on the Canadian labour market? Specifically, has the TFW program adversely affected labour market prospects for long-term residents by maintaining a wide distribution of unemployment rates across provinces?

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The Impact of Security Based Racial Profiling of Muslims

Author(s): Gova Alnoor and Kurd Rahat
Date: October, 2008
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

The overarching question to our participants was: “Has the current government national security apparatus caused overt suspicion upon the activities of yourself or those you know?”

To gain a sense of how participants understand racial profiling, researchers used eight guiding questions, modifying them when needed, to allow participants a wide range of entry points through which their narrative could take shape.

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Deskilling across the Generations: Reunification among Transnational Filipino Families in Vancouver

Author(s): Geraldine Pratt, Philippine Women Centre of BC, Ugnayan ng Kabataang Pilipino sa Canada
Date: September, 2008
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What are the long-term effects of the Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP) among Filipino families who immigrate to Canada after the terms of this temporary worker program have been met?

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Exploring Immigrant Women's Fears of Criminal Victimization

Author(s): Wendy Chan
Date: September, 2008
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

How do immigrant women understand their fear of crime? What factors contribute to their fears? How do these fears influence their daily routines and what types of strategies do immigrant women employ to remain safe?

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Canada’s Visible Minority Population: 1967-2017

Author(s): Andrew Cardozo and Ravi Pendakur
Date: August, 2008
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

The goals of this paper are to examine the changing place of visible minorities in Canada within the context of the demographic, social and economic changes and to highlight the related policy initiatives which have occurred over the last four decades.

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How strangers become neighbours: constructing citizenship through community development

Author(s): Val Cavers with Paula Carr and Leonie Sandercock
Date: November, 2007
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

This project explores the possibility that citizenship can be actively constructed through community development at the local level, through local institutions that promote cross-cultural interactions.

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Changing the Mind of the City: The Role of the Hastings Institute / EEO in Building Multicultural Readiness in Vancouver's Host Society

Author(s): Samara Brock
Date: May, 2007
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

Do municipally-based cross-cultural training programs like those offered by the Hastings Institute/ EEO offer an effective approach to helping Canadian cities prepare for immigration and greater cultural diversity?

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The Education, Immigration and Emigration of Canada’s Highly Skilled Workers in the 21st Century

Author(s): Don J. DeVoretz
Date: October, 2006
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

How has Canada boosted its human capital through immigration and foreign student recruitment? What is Canada’s competitive position on the recruitment of these groups?

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Beyond the Polemics: The Economic Outcomes of Canadian Immigration

Author(s): Daniel Hiebert
Date: September, 2006
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

How successful is the Canadian ‘points system’ – immigration from the Skilled Worker class? What can we learn from an economic overview of Canada’s skilled immigration program?

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Parental Sponsorship—Whose Problematic? A Consideration of South Asian Women’s Immigration Experiences in Vancouver

Author(s): Arlene Tigar McLaren
Date: June, 2006
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

Is parental sponsorship a problem? What are some of the experiences of parental sponsors? How does the sponsorship program contribute to immigrant inequalities?

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Family Class and Immigration in Canada: Implications for Sponsored Elderly Women

Author(s): Arlene Tigar McLaren and Tracey Lou Black
Date: November, 2005
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

To what extent does Canadian immigration policy allow families to bring parents and grandparents to join them in Canada? What can we learn about their immigration process and their experiences in Canada? What further studies need to be done?

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The Self-Employed Experience of Immigrants to Canada

Author(s): Herbert J. Schuetze
Date: October, 2005
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What are the self-employment propensities of immigrants to Canada? What are the impacts of policy mechanisms on self-employment?

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A Sociocultural and Critical Analysis of Educational Policies and Programs for Minority Youth in British Columbia

Author(s): June Beynon, Linda Larocque, Roumiana Ilieva and Diane Dagenais
Date: June, 2005
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What are the implications of Canada’s official federal policies of bilingualism and multiculturalism, the British Columbia Multiculturalism Act (1993) and the British Columbia Language Education Policy (1995) on educational programs available to immigrant and minority youth in British Columbia? How might equity be achieved?

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Indicators of Entrepreneurial Success among Business Immigrants in Canada

Author(s): David Ley
Date: January, 2005
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

How can we explain the business performance of entrepreneurs who have entered Canada through the Business Immigration Program?

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Self-Selection, Immigrant Public Finance Performance and Canadian Citizenship

Author(s): Don J. DeVoretz and Sergiy Pivnenko
Date: January, 2005
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What influences an immigrant to decide to acquire Canadian citizenship? What are the implications of citizenship for paying taxes and receiving government payments?

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Immigration Policy: Methods of Economic Assessment

Author(s): Don J. DeVoretz
Date: June, 2004
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What kinds of economic criteria may be used to assess immigration policy? What can be learned from applying these criteria?

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Commemoration, Redress and Reconciliation in the Integration of Immigrant Communities: The Cases of Japanese Canadians and Japanese-Americans

Author(s): Rosa Sevy and John Torpey
Date: February, 2004
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

Do programs of redress (such as reparations) improve the integration of previously marginalized groups?

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Regional Immigration and Dispersal: Lessons from Small- and Medium-sized Urban Centres in British Columbia

Author(s): Margaret Walton-Roberts
Date: February, 2004
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

Which factors might influence the geographic dispersal of immigrants to British Columbia’s small- and medium-sized cities? What are the policy implications of these factors?

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Sharing the Wealth, Spreading the ‘Burden’? The Settlement of Kosovar Refugees in Small B.C. Cities

Author(s): Kathy Sherrell, Jennifer Hyndman and Fisnik Preniqi
Date: February, 2004
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What are the practices and outcomes of settling government-assisted refugees in small- and medium-sized cities in British Columbia?

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From Migrant to Immigrant: Domestic Workers Settle in Vancouver, Canada

Author(s): Geraldine Pratt in collaboration with the Philippine Women Centre
Date: November, 2003
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What are the experiences of former participants in the Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP) in Vancouver?

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Integrating Immigrants: The Challenge for Cities, City Governments and the City-Building Professions

Author(s): Leonie Sandercock
Date: November, 2003
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

How can citizens of diverse cities be helped to live successfully alongside one another? What kinds of planning and what forms of urban governance could have the greatest impact on exclusion and marginality?

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Rethinking Multiculturalism for the 21st Century

Author(s): Leonie Sandercock
Date: October, 2003
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What does it mean to be ‘at home’ in an increasingly globalized world? How might we live together in the face of cultural difference? What might a multicultural project for 21st century cities look like?

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The Impact of Canada’s Immigration Act on Chinese Independent Immigrants

Author(s): Yan Shi
Date: April, 2003
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What would have been the level and composition of Chinese and non-Chinese immigration between 1995-2000 if the revised point system had been in place?

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Uneven Globalization: Neoliberal Regimes, Immigration and Multiculturalism in Australia, Canada and New Zealand

Author(s): Daniel Hiebert, Jock Collins and Paul Spoonley
Date: February, 2003
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

Why have Australia, Canada and New Zealand adopted very different immigration policies when they are aiming to fix the same problems?

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The Challenges to Responding to Human Smuggling in Canada: Practitioners Reflect on the 1999 Boat Arrivals in British Columbia

Author(s): Alexandra Charlton, Suzanne Duff, Dan Grant, Alison Mountz, Robin Pike, Joshua Sohn and Chris Taylor
Date: December, 2002
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What challenges are there to responding to human smuggling in Canada? How can these challenges be met?

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Immigration to British Columbia: Media Representation and Public Opinion

Author(s): Minelle Mahtani and Alison Mountz
Date: August, 2002
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

How does the media shape perceptions and understandings of immigration to British Columbia?

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Multiculturalism and Local Government in Greater Vancouver

Author(s): David W. Edgington and Thomas A. Hutton
Date: March, 2002
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What are the multicultural policies and programs used by metropolitan Vancouver’s municipal councils? How committed are local councils to multiculturalism, and do they provide local services that are equitable and accessible for all residents?

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Canadian Immigration and the Selection-Settlement Services Trade-off: Exploring Immigrant Economic Participation in British Columbia

Author(s): Daniel Hiebert
Date: February, 2002
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

Are economic immigrants the best prepared to enter the Canadian labour market?

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Everybody Acts Independently: A Study of the Refugee Determination Process in British Columbia, Canada

Author(s): Li Minghuan
Date: April, 2001
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

How and why do ‘boat people’ arriving in Canada get considered in terms of an ‘expense’? How accurate is this perception?

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The Visible Minority Category and Urban Analysis

Author(s): Harald Bauder
Date: February, 2001
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What are the implications of using fixed racial and ethnic categories (such as the concept of ‘visible minorities’) in urban analysis?

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‘Adjusting the Colour Bars’: Media Representation of Ethnic Minorities under Australian and Canadian Multiculturalisms

Author(s): Kevin Dunn and Minelle Matani
Date: January, 2001
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

How do the media represent certain ethno-cultural groups in Australia and Canada?

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Emerging Patterns of Immigrant Settlement in Metropolitan Sydney and Vancouver: The Need for New Concepts and Models

Author(s): Ian Burnley and Daniel Hiebert
Date: January, 2001
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What are the changing residential location patterns of immigrants to Sydney and Vancouver?

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Urban Governance, Multiculturalism and Citizenship in Sydney and Vancouver

Author(s): David W. Edgington, Bronwyn Hanna, Thomas Hutton and Susan Thompson
Date: January, 2001
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

How well has municipal planning responded to cultural diversity? How multiculturally ‘ready’ are local governments in Sydney and Vancouver?

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Social Security and Migration with Endogenous Skill Upgrading

Author(s): Alessandra Casarico and Carlo Devillanova
Date: November, 2000
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What are the relationships between migration and social security?

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Some Immigrant Language Lessons from Canada and Germany

Author(s): Don DeVoretz, Holger Hinte and Christiane Werner
Date: October, 2000
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

Of Germany and Canada, which system of second language acquisition is most effective?

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A Model of Destination Language Acquisition: Application to Male Immigrants in Canada

Author(s): Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller
Date: September, 2000
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What are the determinants of language practice amongst adult male immigrants in Canada?

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The Economics of Illegal Migration for the Host Economy

Author(s): Barry R. Chiswick
Date: September, 2000
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What is the impact of illegal migration on the host economy?

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Immigrant Occupational Skill Outcomes and the Role of Region-Specific Human Capital

Author(s): Eden Nicole Thompson
Date: May, 2000
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

Do immigrants who were highly skilled in their home country resort to low-skilled occupations upon arrival in Canada?

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Seeking Homo Economicus: The Strange Story of Canada’s Business Immigration Program

Author(s): David Ley
Date: May, 2000
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What are the economic experiences of those who come to Vancouver through the business immigration program?

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Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program: A New Design

Author(s): Bradley Pascoe and Beverly Davis
Date: January, 2000
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What are the advantages and disadvantages of including immigration in international trade agreements? How can Canada’s temporary foreign worker program support the entry of foreign workers?

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Managed Migration and the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program

Author(s): David Greenhill and Joyce Aceytuno
Date: January, 2000
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What are the benefits of the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program?

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A Theory of Social Forces and Immigrant Second Language Acquisition

Author(s): Don DeVoretz and Christiane Werner
Date: December, 1999
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

Why is second language acquisition weak amongst immigrants worldwide? How could it be strengthened?

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Temporary Canadian Migration: Quo Vadis?

Author(s): Don J. DeVoretz
Date: December, 1999
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

Does the temporary immigrant movement to Canada serve the public interest of resident Canadians?

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Health Systems Renewal: ‘Writing In’ Cultural Plurality

Author(s): J. Anderson, S. Tang and C. Blue
Date: May, 1999
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

How is ‘culture’ understood in health care, and how is this taken up in the restructuring of Canada’s health care system?

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The Changing Role of Administrators in Ethnically Diverse Schools

Author(s): Linda LaRocque
Date: April, 1999
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

How do school principals in ethnically diverse schools experience their role?

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Impacts of immigration on education in British Columbia: An Analysis of Efforts to Implement Policies of Multiculturalism in Schools

Author(s): Marvin Wideen and Kathleen A. Barnard
Date: January, 1999
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

How successful have the educational policies of British Columbia been in meeting educational challenges related to increased diversity in the classroom?

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Temporary Migration: An Overview

Author(s): Don J. DeVoretz
Date: January, 1999
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What are the temporary immigration patterns of various receiving countries? What accounts for the differences between these countries?

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Government Restructuring and Immigrant/Refugee Settlement Work: Bringing Advocacy Back In

Author(s): Gillian Creese
Date: July, 1998
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What have been the consequences of Federal government restructuring of programs and funding for immigrant and refugee settlement service organizations in Vancouver?

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The Colour of Work: Labour Market Segmentation in Montréal, Toronto and Vancouver, 1991

Author(s): Daniel Hiebert
Date: March, 1997
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What is the extent of ethnic and gender segmentation in the labour markets of Montréal, Toronto and Vancouver? What is the nature of this segmentation, and how is this segmentation distributed geographically?

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The Economic Goals of Canada’s Immigration Policy, Past and Present

Author(s): Alan Green and David Green
Date: July, 1996
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

How has Canada’s immigration policy developed over time? What does this history mean for how today’s immigration policy might be interpreted?

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