Integration outcomes for immigrant women in Canada

In terms of the content of the documents, the vast majority of literature on immigrant women in Canada is based on a case study design using qualitative methods of inquiry and analysis3. [...] Economic/Labour Force Outcomes The literature on economic/labour force outcomes for immigrant women focus on two areas, labour force participation and earnings, and the findings are consistent throughout: Immigrant women’s rate of participation in the labour force is considerably lower than that of immigrant men and Canadian born women (Boyd and Pikkov, 2005). [...] In 2001 64% of all foreign born women were in the paid labour force compared to 70% of Canadian born women and 80% of immigrant men (Lindsay and Almey, 2005). [...] The need to recognize the centrality of caregiving in the lives of immigrant women is a critical one and more fully elaborated upon in the next section. [...] The second is the degree to which violence and abuse emerges as part of the immigration and integration experience.