What are immigrants' experiences of discrimination in the workplace?

The datasets used by the project include a range of large-scale surveys such as the Census, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada, the Ethnic Diversity Survey, the Workplace and Employee Survey, the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, the Labour Force Survey and the Permanent Residents Data System. [...] Insofar as age and education correlate with knowledge of legal structures, African Americans and women who are more educated and older are more likely to perceive discrimination (Hirsh and Lyons, 2010). [...] THE DATA: LONGITUDINAL SURVEY OF IMMIGRANTS TO CANADA This report uses data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC), which was a joint undertaking between Statistics Canada and Citizenship and Immigration Canada under the Policy Research Initiative. [...] The target population for the survey consisted of immigrants who arrived in Canada between October 1, 2000 and September 30, 2001, were age 15 years or older at the time of landing, and landed from abroad (i.e. [...] The percentages of people reporting discrimination range from a low of 25.4% for those with poor language skills and no more than a high school education to a high of 51.2% for those with postsecondary education who speak an official language well.