Immigration

Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, and other short-term stays in a destination country do not fall under the definition of immigration or migration; seasonal labour immigration is sometimes included, however. As for economic effects, research suggests that migration is beneficial both to the receiving and sending countries. Research, with few exceptions, finds that immigration on average has positive economic effects on the native population, but is mixed as to …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 November 2024 English

The Western welfare state model is beset with structural, financial, and moral crises. So-called scroungers, cheats, and disability fakers persistently occupy the centre of public policy discussions, even as official …

motherhood; the relationship between migration or immigration and popular perceptions of fraud;21 and the


Fraser Institute · 13 November 2024 English

Since 2000, Quebec’s real per-capita GDP has grown at an annual average of 1.2 percent, while Ontario’s has grown at 0.7 percent—both below the Canadian average. Ontario and Quebec’s real …

most recent two years as a result of increasing immigration in Canada. As Quebec has lagged the country


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

The COVID-19 virus was responsible for the deaths of over thirty-five thousand Canadians in its first two years alone. Described as the biggest public health crisis of the century, it …

articles containing the terms climate change, immigration, pharmacare, tax, and debt, 2019 versus 2020


DDN: Dundurn Press · 29 October 2024 English

“Honest and insightful, a testament to Japanese Canadian resilience.” — KERRI SAKAMOTO, author of Floating CityWhen the North American dream meets traditional Japanese conformity, two cultures collide. Does the past …

Maru, the girls faced a short holdup during immigration. Records indicated the Nakamura children departed


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 20 October 2024 English

Essential for understanding and mobilizing public health efforts.

Alberta’s eugen- ics program; second, through immigration policy in the province; and third, by the framing through Alberta’s public health history. Immigration, Public Health, and Exclusion Ethnicity/race ability, and class were central to Canada’s immigration policy from the late nineteenth century into decades of the twentieth century. Although the Immigration Act of 1869 contained very few restrictions regard- regard- ing entry into Canada, over time federal immigration policy became much moreA HISTORY OF PUBLIC HEALTH


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

The Great Right North charts the growth of far-right groups in Canada, illuminating how official and unofficial government attention generates the context in which they flourish. Breaking new ground by …

right: moral- ity, economic hardship, identity, immigration and integration, social order and security, “docu- ments” an operation by a European anti-immigration group (Généra- tion Identitaire) that is live-commented NORTH the meaning of an object (for instance, immigration), as well as the solutions foreseen to solve anti-establishment, antisemitic, ho- mophobic, anti-immigration, anti-Muslim, ultra-conservative, ultra- nationalist contentious social and political issues like immigration, abortion, globalization, and now pandemics


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

finds that, rather than simply declining, Christianity in the city is adapting in response to immigration, decolonization, pluralism, and social crises. Christians are focusing on friendship and social

spiritual makeup of the area changed with shifting immigration patterns. From Swedish Lutherans building their sociologists determined, projections are that immigration to Canada in the years ahead will be primarily being remade in this city due to the large immigration of new residents from across Asia, many of whom both increasing secularity and, due to ongoing immigration, the changing composition of the Christian population Asian Christianity arriving through recent immigration (as well as historic pre-Confederation Asian


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Sanctuary in Pieces documents the evolving nature of sanctuary in settler societies. Drawing on archival research and interviews in Montreal/Mooniyaang/Tiohtià:ke, Madokoro explores the history of protection and hospitality over two …

and immigration—Government policy— History. | LCSH: Montréal (Québec)—Emigration and immigration—Social vulnerable situations often compounded by complex immigration statuses, could obtain services and protection protection without fear. Formal federal immigration minister and then mayor Denis Coderre celebrated the from municipal services, regardless of their immigration status.” 4 The policy also aimed to address protect everyone in the city, regardless of their immigration status. Proponents were correct to dispute the


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Canadian municipalities oversee the country’s most urgent policy areas, yet the constitutional authority of cities to manage their increasing obligations has not kept pace. This volume considers how policy, law, …

and jobs, largely fuelled by international immigration 29 7.1 Amendment types that could increase the people and goods, housing and homelessness, immigration, and economic develop- ment.15 Multi-level urban itself driven almost entirely by international immigration over the past several decades (see Table 1.2) and jobs, largely fuelled by international immigration Notes: a Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (Toronto


CARDUS: Centre for Cultural Renewal · 10 October 2024 English

More than half of those in working-class jobs are overqualified for the work they do

16 Immigration Status Working Class 26 Immigration gender distribution, regional breakdown, and immigration status. Our key finding is that the over-credentialed arise in this study, including childcare and immigration, which we touch on below. However, the most British Columbia. Immigration Status In “Canada’s New Working Class,” we identified immigration status—particularly


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