Inequality in Calgary

For racialized immigrant populations, the picture is much the same with the added barriers of language, culture, and non-recognition of international experience and credentials. [...] The racialization of poverty in Calgary is evident in the growing gap between the median income of immigrant and non-immigrant families and in unemployment rates for recent immigrants nearly double that of non-immigrants. [...] Systemic discrimination embedded in our society and our institutions creates barriers of access, limited mobility and disproportionate concentrations of racialized labour in part-time and temporary employment, and overrepresentation in sub-standard and increasingly segregated housing. [...] He adversity in their home countries the likes of pointed out that in areas of the city which we can’t even imagine and have used where average household income has their ingenuity, determination and courage to undertake the enormous challenge of making a fallen by 20 per cent or more in each new life in a new country. [...] Policy considerations are provided that speak to the cost of the increasing racialization of poverty in Calgary and Canada.