Future research / gaps identified:
Examine how immigrants of different genders participate in municipal elections
Key findings:
1) Immigrant communities, on average, have less self-reported interest in and knowledge of municipal politics when compared to provincial and federal politics.
2) The mean score of immigrant...
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...
Future research / gaps identified:
Investigate how communities are individually managing applicants to the Rural Renewal and Rural Entrepreneur streams, and identifying promising practices that communities and government could review.
Integration timeline: not defined
Locations:
Rural Alberta
Brooks
Hanna...
Community organizations:
ActionDignity
Habitus Consulting Collective
Future research / gaps identified:
Conduct a comprehensive review of City policies and practices to identify systemic barriers to equity and inclusion.
Collect disaggregated data on the experiences of Indigenous, Black, and diverse racial...
Integration timeline: newcomers not defined
Community organizations: n/a
Future research / gaps identified: n/a
Key findings:
Five themes with related strategic actions, outcomes, and performance measures to address systemic racism:
Integrate racial equity accountability from the inside out
Provide anti-racis...
Open-access – No
Location
Calgary
Alberta
Key recommendations
Key populations
immigrant service workers who are first generation immigrants
Key findings
IRCC is currently using a “outcomes-driven” program, with the aim of better outcomes for clients currently in the process of resettlement, and is incr...
Key recommendations
More research is needed
Key findings
How recent Syrian refugees navigated the settlement and integration process and what services:
The refugees’ main points of contact were varied, for instance, settlement workers for GARs and private sponsors for PSRs.
Friends and families also helped them 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....
Integration timeline
At what point during the integration process the study was conducted?
NA
Key findings
Private spronsorship effective for bringing refugees to Canada; All refugees, including PSRs face settlement challenges especially around employment and language learning; PSRs face similar challenges to GARs and...
Key findings
Although integration is promoted in Lethbridge, immigrants do not fare as well as the general population
Refugees are more susceptible to poorer outcomes of integration processes, while highly educated immigrants tend to perform relatively well. At the same time, educated immigrants feel less included beca...