Community organizations: n/a
Integration timeline: not defined
Key findings:
1) Around 50% of employment service providers acknowledged that visible minority immigrants face barriers while integrating into the labour market, including racial microaggressions in their jobs.
2) Programs tailored to the needs of raci...
Community organizations
Philippine Overseas and Employment Administration (POEA)
Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO)
Gaps identified
NA
Key recommendations
Developing more gender-neutral pre-arrival services to provide a better integrative approach for inclusion in Canada, where both males and females are given...
Integration timeline: more than 2 years in Canada
Key populations: Colombian immigrant professionals who now live in Calgary
Key recommendations:
Create adult learning opportunities to increase ICC and holistic TL through interpersonal connections and learning through relationships.
Open access: Yes
Community o...
Key recommendations
Increase legislation in Alberta for temporary foreign workers (TFWs) to ensure safety in the Prairie region, such as changing conditions to make the work permit applicable to more than one job in the same sector, and work permits for spouses of TFWs
Create a monitoring program through funding fr...
Community organizations
Universities located in two different Canadian provinces
Key recommendations
NA
Location
NA
Key findings
The paper explores how international students make decisions about staying in Canada post-graduation.
The meaning of “staying” was defined by students in a multitude of ways:
“staying...
Community organizations
NA
Location
Alberta
Key recommendations
Need for systemic changes to immigration policy to address the transition from TFW status to living without status in Canada
Need to address the issue of human trafficking for the purposes of labour in Canada
Creating better avenues for recourse...
Community organizations: n/a
Key populations: Black immigrant employees who now live in Calgary
Key recommendations:
Address diversity and related issues to a greater extent in the workplace.
Shift the knowledge and focus on diversity as it exists in conjunction with equality.
Facilitate all sides to see dive...
Community organizations
Windsor YMCA
Location
Windsor, Ontario
Key recommendations
NA
Key findings
Discrimination negatively impacts students’ ability to adapt to and deal with the educational stressors of a new environment. When students experience discrimination, their options are to fight, fawn, or flee—that i...
Open access: Yes
Key populations: highly skilled economic immigrants who now live in Calgary, AB
Community organization: The Alberta Gateway Project
Integration timeline: not defined
Future research / gaps identified: Gateway Alberta, as a knowledge hub, can be a rich data resource for future research projects....
Location
Calgary, Edmonton, Medicine Hat, Red Deer, and Lethbridge, Alberta
Community organizations
Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP) providers in each city
Integration timeline
At what point during the integration process the study was conducted?
A majority of survey participants had been in Canada between 8-1...