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Diversity, Immigration and Integration

As immigration becomes the primary source of labour force and population growth in Canada, it is important to better understand the factors that have led to the deterioration of immigrant labour market outcomes in the past two decades, the economic and social barriers newcomers face and ways to improve immigrants’ integration.

The program focused on the following themes:

  • Examining the factors that affect immigrants’ labour market and economic outcomes and policy options to encourage improvement
  • Assessing the implications of Canada’s growing reliance on temporary foreign workers
  • Analyzing the factors at play in immigrants’ social integration
  • Exploring pathways to civic and political participation and integration of Canada’s immigrant communities

Note: This research program has concluded.

More from this research program

Seeing the Same Canada?
Visible Minorities’ Views of the Federation
Antoine Bilodeau, Luc Turgeon, Stephen E. White and Ailsa Henderson (November 18, 2015)
Temporary or Transitional?
Migrant Workers’ Experiences with Permanent Residence in Canada
Delphine Nakache and Leanne Dixon-Perera (October 27, 2015)
Ethnocultural Minority Enclaves in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver
Daniel Hiebert (August 19, 2015)
L’interculturalisme québécois dans le contexte du multiculturalisme canadien
François Rocher and Bob W. White (November 25, 2014)
Ethnocultural Community Organizations and Immigrant Integration in Canada
Philippe Couton (June 26, 2014)
Economic and Social Integration of Immigrant Live-in Caregivers in Canada
Jelena Atanackovic and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault (April 16, 2014)
Understanding Intergenerational Social Mobility
Filipino Youth in Canada
Philip Kelly (February 19, 2014)
Becoming Canadian
Making Sense of Recent Changes to Citizenship Rules
Elke Winter (January 16, 2014)
Canada’s Provincial Nominee Immigration Programs
Securing Greater Policy Alignment
F. Leslie Seidle (December 12, 2013)
Workshop on the Electoral and Civic Involvement of Canada’s Immigrant Communities
Quinn Albaugh and F. Leslie Seidle (October 25, 2013)
Economic Implications of Recent Changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Christopher Worswick (October 17, 2013)
2nd Canada-Australia Roundtable on Foreign Qualification Recognition
Quinn Albaugh and F. Leslie Seidle (April 30, 2013)
“I Am Canadian”
Challenging Stereotypes about Young Somali Canadians
Rima Berns-McGown (January 15, 2013)
The Impact of Precarious Legal Status on Immigrants’ Economic Outcomes
Luin Goldring and Patricia Landolt (October 23, 2012)
Roundtable on Temporary Migration and the Canadian Labour Market
(June 29, 2012)
Language Skills and the Social Integration of Canada’s Adult Immigrants
Tracey M. Derwing and Erin Waugh (May 31, 2012)
Making It in Canada
Immigration Outcomes and Policies
Garnett Picot and Arthur Sweetman (April 4, 2012)
Permanently Temporary?
Agricultural Migrant Workers and Their Integration in Canada
Jenna Hennebry (February 28, 2012)
Do Admission Criteria and Economic Recessions Affect Immigrant Earnings?
Michael G. Abbott and Charles M. Beach (November 8, 2011)
Canada’s Immigrants and Their Children
Trends and Socio-economic Outcomes
F. Leslie Seidle (November 1, 2011)
Pro-immigration Canada
Social and Economic Roots of Popular Views
Jeffrey G. Reitz (October 18, 2011)
The Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program
Attraction, Integration and Retention of Immigrants
Tom Carter, Manish Pandey and James Townsend (October 20, 2010)
Un diplôme postsecondaire canadien
Un tremplin vers des emplois de qualité pour les immigrants ?
Maude Boulet et Brahim Boudarbat (September 14, 2010)
Multiple Citizenship, Identity and Entitlement in Canada
Audrey Macklin and François Crépeau (June 22, 2010)
The Canadian Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Do Short-Term Economic Needs Prevail over Human Rights Concerns?
Delphine Nakache and Paula J. Kinoshita (May 13, 2010)
L’intégration linguistique des immigrants au Québec
Michel Pagé, avec la collaboration de Patricia Lamarre (February 16, 2010)
The Economic Integration of Immigrants in Metropolitan Vancouver
Daniel Hiebert (June 25, 2009)
Les difficultés d’insertion en emploi des immigrants du Maghreb au Québec
Une question de perspective
Annick Lenoir-Achdjian, Sébastien Arcand, Denise Helly, Isabelle Drainville et Michèle Vatz Laaroussi (March 26, 2009)
Changing Perceptions of Islamic Authority among Muslims in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom
Karim H. Karim (February 26, 2009)
Immigration in the Long Run
The Education and Earnings Mobillity of Second-Generation Canadians
Miles Corak (October 9, 2008)
Breaking Down Barriers to Labour Market Integration of Newcomers in Toronto
Nan Weiner (September 8, 2008)
The Impact of Economic Selection Policy on Labour Market Outcomes for Degree-Qualified Migrants in Canada and Australia
Lesleyanne Hawthorne (May 12, 2008)
L’intégration des immigrés sur le marché du travail à Montréal
Politiques et enjeux
Marie-Thérèse Chicha et Éric Charest (March 18, 2008)
Religion-Based Alternative Dispute Resolution
A Challenge to Multiculturalism
Marion Boyd (December 1, 2007)
Détérioration des salaires des nouveaux immigrants au Québec par rapport à l’Ontario et à la Colombie-Britannique
Brahim Boudarbat et Maude Boulet (November 7, 2007)
Diversity, Belonging and Shared Citizenship
Keith Banting, Thomas J. Courchene and F. Leslie Seidle (September 18, 2007)
Making the Connections
Ottawa's Role in Immigrant Employment
Naomi Alboim and Elizabeth McIsaac (May 22, 2007)
Racial Inequality, Social Cohesion and Policy Issues in Canada
Jeffrey G. Reitz and Rupa Banerjee (January 11, 2007)
Ties that Bind?
Social Cohesion and Diversity in Canada
Stuart N. Soroka, Richard Johnston and Keith Banting (December 12, 2006)
First Nations and Métis People and Diversity in Canadian Cities
Evelyn J. Peters, with commentary by John Richards (November 16, 2006)
Another Fine Balance
Managing Diversity in Canadian Cities
Katherine A.H. Graham and Susan D. Phillips (November 1, 2006)
Immigrants and Civic Integration in Western Europe
Christian Joppke (June 29, 2006)
Controlling Irregular Migration in Canada
Reconciling Security Concerns with Human Rights Protection
François Crépeau and Delphine Nakache (February 21, 2006)
The Discounting of Immigrants’ Skills in Canada
Evidence and Policy Recommendations
Naomi Alboim, Ross Finnie and Ronald Meng (February 8, 2005)
Tapping Immigrants’ Skills
New Directions for Canadian Immigration Policy in the Knowledge Economy
Jeffrey G. Reitz (January 31, 2005)
Beyond Harmonization
How US Immigration Rules Would Have Worked in Canada
Alan G. Green (July 20, 2004)
Economic Integration and Security
New Key Factors in Managing International Migration
Hélène Pellerin (April 1, 2004)

EXPERT COMMENTARIES

Les minorités visibles et la fédération canadienne
Seeing the Same Canada? (December 9, 2015)
Vers une politique officielle sur l’interculturalisme
L’interculturalisme québécois dans le contexte du multiculturalisme canadien (November 25, 2014)
Immediate labour-force needs are just part of the immigration equation
Making It in Canada (April 19, 2012)
Improve integration of migrant farm workers
Permanently Temporary? (April 9, 2012)

Related Events

L’interculturalisme québécois dans le contexte du multiculturalisme canadien
(April 29, 2015)
Electoral and Civic Involvement of Canada’s Immigrant Communities
Workshop on the Electoral and Civic Involvement of Canada’s Immigrant Communities (October 25, 2013)
Seminar with Ricard Zapata-Barrero: “L’interculturalisme au Québec : le point de vue d’un Catalan”
(June 12, 2013)
Canada-Australia Roundtable on Foreign Qualification Recognition
2nd Canada-Australia Roundtable on Foreign Qualification Recognition (April 30, 2013)
15th National Metropolis Conference
Workshop: Temporary Foreign Workers
(March 14, 2013)