FMC Reception Capacity Typology

In the British Columbian case, the recognition of the community’s ability to offer services was accompanied with debates in regards to the legitimacy of the organization representing the Francophone community in delivering direct services to French-speaking newcomers. [...] To illustrate those two paradoxes, we will analyze the shift from literature focused essentially on the idea of nation to a focus on Francophone communities resulting from the fragmentation of the French-Canadian nation, and will then analyze the emergence of the concept of minorities within the Francophone community. [...] The combination of those debates and the growing awareness of irreversible demographic changes both in terms of the decline and aging of the Francophone population and the increase in non-European immigration to Canada was a turning point for Francophone communities in Canada. [...] A new field of research has accordingly been created in recent years and is growing, in particular as a result of support from public authorities and the communities themselves.10 One of the notable consequences of those days was in fact the emergence of common focuses for researchers, communities and governments, the continuum of recruitment, reception, integration and retention being one of the [...] After all the adaptations required of the immigrant and the host society in the previous stages, retention is generally considered an indicator of the successful "completion" of the immigration process.