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Youth migration in Quebec

9 Nov 2007

Young Anglophones generally have a positive opinion of the economic situation in their place of origin; two thirds of the respondents do not agree with the statement “there is no job for me in my place of origin.” Interregional migrants have the most pessimistic view of the economy of their place of origin. [...] The questionnaire was translated into English and an oversample of young Anglophones was selected, using the following criterion: English is the language most often spoken at home by the respondents.2 However, before conducting this segment of the study, the research team took the step of reviewing the literature on the migration of young Anglophones (Magnan, 2004). [...] A process was set in motion to find the necessary funds3 for the building of a random oversample of young Anglophones aged 20 to 34 and to find a polling agency to administer the questionnaire.4 This Anglophone segment of the GRMJ’s survey comprised 1,237 young Anglophones, of whom 33.1% were from Montreal while the remaining 66.9% were from the rest of Quebec. [...] Youth Migration in Quebec 5 1 PARAMETERS OF THE STUDY Over the last eleven years, the research group on youth migration (GRMJ) has studied the question of the migration of young Quebecers, more specifically, the relationship of young people to the province of Quebec as subdivided into administrative regions for research purposes. [...] This survey made possible a number of analyses that provided varied, innovative insights into the phenomenon of youth migration, both on the regional and national levels.5 Some of these analyses confirmed or clarified the results of the previous qualitative study, while others revealed unexpected aspects of the phenomenon, in particular the possibility of return, the usually positive perceptions o
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Authors

Magnan, Marie-Odile

ISBN
9782895751311
Pages
160
Published in
Canada

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