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The Economic Integration of Refugees in Canada

11 Apr 2017

The Council’s work is generously supported by the following foundations and governments: Open Society Foundations, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Barrow Cadbury Trust, the Luso-American Development Foundation, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and the governments of Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. [...] The analysis is based largely on two major surveys of refugees and immigrants conducted during the last decade that focused on various aspects of integration, including economic and labor- market integration.2 After providing an overview of the key components and features of the Canadian refugee resettlement system, this report identifies the primary characteristics of recent refugee arrivals to C [...] B. Settlement and Integration Programs The second category of supports consists of general settlement and integration programs that are available to all categories of immigrants and are intended to facilitate social and economic integration. [...] The Resettlement of Refugees to Alberta study reveals that of the 39 percent of refugees who had held a professional job before coming to Canada, only 7 percent found comparable work within five years of settling in the province.36 Figures 7 and 8 show the degree to which this underemployment affected female and male newcomers in Western Canada during their first five years in the country. [...] The report attributes this change to the decline in the strength of the Canadian economy rather than to the educational and employment backgrounds of newcomers.
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Pages
31
Published in
Toronto, ON, CA

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