Forced migration of Colombians

Canada in the context of global changes in immigration and security processes, and the In the Canadian case three levels of public particular and heterogeneous characteristics policy affect the process of seeking refuge of the migratory flows of Colombians and and settlement in Canada. [...] The topic of forced migration and the reconstruction London, in the province of Ontario, of refugees’ experiences, as well as that of is an intermediate size city that has the immigration policies and the attitudes of highest concentration of Colombians in all receiving societies towards immigrants, of Canada. [...] The immigration and refugee policies of the increase in migration of Colombians began Canadian state and the historic evolution of at the end of the 90s, during which time Latin American immigration to Canada, the most were skilled workers and professionals. [...] In the case of Colombia, the widening organizations and organizations of refugees of the definition of refugee within the and immigrants in Colombia and Canada, as Canadian framework is important, given that well as the recognition and documentation the majority of Colombian refugees do not by the Canadian embassy in Bogotá of the fit the Convention’s definition of refugees critical conditions in [...] The increase in Colombian immigration towards the end of the 90s Source: CIC, 2004 results from a combination of factors such The growth of the proportion of economic as the humanitarian crisis Colombia faced migrants from Latin America, with respect in the 90s and throughout the 2000s, the to the other categories, is congruent with change in strategy by armed actors towards the national trend in