ALLIES: A Network of Support, A Movement for Change - This report summarizes the insights of ALLIES' - a national movement of locally-engaged communities capable of providing successful employment solutions for skilled immigrants. Its Lessons to Share section offers insights for other would-be pioneers who might be contemplating the building of other multi-sector initiatives.
Local Immigration Partnership Handbook - This resource has been developed to assist communities in effectively integrating newcomers so that they become fully engaged in the economic, social, political and cultural life in Canada.
Reflections on New 2nd Generation in Canada - This three-part discussion paper series from PRI focuses on the integration of second generation Canadians. A Story of Reefs and Oceans, the first of the three papers, offers an analytic framework to assess research evidence to date on the topic. This framework is used in the second paper to evaluate existing evidence in Canada and flag important issues for consideration by policy analysts and researchers. The third paper centres on the international context and implication for Canada. Access the papers here. [Source: PRI]
Best Employers for New Canadians - This new national awards competition conducted by Mediacorp Canada, editors of Canada's Top 100 Employers, in partnership with the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council, recognizes employers who offer leading programs to assist new Canadians in making the transition to a new workplace, and a new life in Canada. Find out what companies across Canada made the top 20 here. [Source: TRIEC Media Flash & TheStar.com]
Poverty & Working Poverty among Recent Immigrants - This research examines the characteristics of recent immigrants who were living in low income in 2004 and pays particular attention to their labour market participation. Notably, recent working-age immigrants living in poverty are less likely to depend on government transfers and are, thus, more likely to be part of a working poor family as compared with other poor Canadians. Learn more here. [Source: CSRL-Newsletter]
Making the Connections - In May 2007, the Institute for Research on Public Policy released the report Making the Connections: Ottawa's Role in Immigrant Employment. The paper reviews existing immigrant employment programs, projects and practices in Canada, and draws the conclusion that there is a lack of coordination at the federal level, and provides policy recommendations to improve the employment outcomes of skilled immigrants. The report, written by Naomi Alboim and Elizabeth McIsaac is available here. [Source: TRIEC e-Lert]
Survey of Immigrants to Canada, 2005 - Most new immigrants are pleased to be living here and have positive views of Canada's social and political environment. However, after four years in the country, their biggest difficulties are still finding an adequate job, and dealing with the language barrier. Learn more here. [Source: Canadian Social Research Newsletter]
Low income rates among immigrants entering Canada - The economic situation of new immigrants to Canada showed no improvement after the turn of the millennium - despite the fact that they had much higher levels of education and many more were in the skilled immigrant class than a decade earlier, according to a Statistics Canada report. Learn more here. [Source: CSRL-news]
Discrimination among immigrants detrimental - The Institute for Research on Public Policy has published a paper examining whether racial inequality has an effect upon social cohesion in Canada. The report reveals that for some immigrant groups and their children, living in Canada for longer does not necessarily lead to a greater sense of belonging or a higher degree of social integration on their part. This trend is particularly acute among visible minority immigrants. To download the paper in PDF format, click here. [Source: Charity Village]
International Mobility - Through the late 1990s, many thought that Canada's best and brightest were leaving the country in unprecedented numbers. This study sheds new light on the extent and nature of the flows of Canadians to other countries and the patterns of return over the period 1982 to 2003, asking who leaves and who returns. Read the executive summary here or download the full paper here. [Source: Statistics Canada]
Understanding Diverse Neighbourhoods - Immigration is bringing profound changes to urban and suburban neighbourhoods across the U.S. Many housing and community development practitioners are working to promote mixed-income communities, so that lower income households can enjoy greater access to quality public and private services, and to mainstream social and economic opportunities. Learn more here. [Source: Urban Institute]
Mentoring Partnership Completes 1000th Match - Since February 2005, the Mentoring Partnership program has helped over 650 new immigrants find employment in the Toronto Region. "Mentoring is one of the best ways for new immigrants to be exposed to professional networks that lead to employment," said Ratna Omidvar, Executive Director of TRIEC and The Maytree Foundation. "If this service was available to every immigrant who comes to Ontario, imagine how much faster they could enter the workforce." Learn more here. [Source: TRIEC e-Lert]
Newcomers trapped by web of policy barriers - A research study conducted by Community Foundations of Canada and the Law Commission of Canada concludes that Canadian social policy is undermining the success of newcomers to this country, hampering their access to employment and vital services, and creating a web of discrimination that makes it harder for immigrants to settle here, even though they are more educated and more skilled than their predecessors. Download the report here. [Source: Charity Village]
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Employer must address immigrant workforce barriers - This report from the Canadian Coalition of Community-Based Employability Training (CCCBET), focuses on the specific issues and barriers preventing the integration of immigrants and refugees into the Canadian workforce. According to CCCBET, the top three barriers to affect hiring immigrants are: language skills, recognition of foreign work experience and credentials, and Canadian work experience. Download the full report here. [Source: Charity Village]
Our Diverse Cities: Challenges and Opportunities - The Canadian Journal of Urban Research, Vol. 15, Issue 2 includes two important articles that use Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada to examine housing needs during the first six months after arriving in Canada. Learn more about these articles here. [Source: CHRA Underlines]
Making Connections - The Canadian Council on Social Development has released a comprehensive report about immigrants and the contributions they make to Canadian society. Making Connections examines trends in volunteer work, donations, and membership in community organizations. For more information, click here. [Source: Charity Village]
Literacy skills among Canada's immigrants - A growing proportion of Canada's newest immigrants speak a language other than English or French at home. Accounting for virtually all of the net growth in the labour force in Canada over the coming decade, the literacy skills of immigrants is clearly linked to their labour market outcomes. Find out how the immigrant population compares to individuals born in Canada on literacy tests taken in either of Canada's two official languages here. [Source: Statistics Canada]
Immigration and Cities in Canada - Maytree's Letter to the Next Prime Minister focuses on the key elements for an immigration policy that will serve Canada. Immigration and urbanization have become the defining realities for the future of Canada. However, a policy framework for a new immigration policy must recognize that while immigration is a national matter, the processes of immigrant settlement are inherently local. Alan Broadbent, Maytree's chairman, outlines nine key recommendations for the federal government to support immigration and urban growth. Read the letter here. [Source: Maytree]
A Land of Broken Promises - CTV's program W-5 recently aired a special report on skilled immigrants and their experiences once they arrive in Canada. To read a transcript of the show, click here. [Source: TRIEC media alert]
The Diversity Advantage - RBC Economics has released a study that quantifies both the potential value of immigration to Canada's economic growth, and the lost opportunity cost of not capitalizing on the skills and abilities of our diverse population. The report makes several recommendations, including better language training and integration programs for immigrants, as well as increased reciprocity between Canadian and foreign trade associations. It also says Canadian businesses must do more to attract and retain female employees, by introducing greater flexibility around maternity leave and work arrangements, for example. Download a copy of the study here. [Source: TRIEC]
Worker Centers Attract Foundations - Worker centers have largely supplanted unions, fraternal organizations, and the like in serving immigrant workers in the United States, especially at the local level, a new study reports. And these centers are an emerging investment opportunity for foundations interested in reducing immigrant poverty and increasing immigrant civic integration, according to Worker Centers: Organizing Communities At the Edge of the Dream, published by the Neighborhood Funders Group. Foundations account for over 60 percent of the budgets of worker centers, part of a growing infrastructure for recent immigrants through which they gain support and services, including employment. But most centers have limited budgets and are poorly connected to each other, the study found. And despite the fact that worker centers are local phenomena and impact local communities, very few community foundations support them, according to the report. Download the report here. [Source: Aspen Philanthropy Letter]
Website to increase diversity in Toronto boardroom - A new project of Maytree hopes to address the imbalance between the proportion of immigrants and visible minorities in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and their relative lack of representation in public agencies, boards and commissions. abcGTA has already recruited 100 qualified candidates from visible minority, immigrant, and aboriginal communities to be included in the candidate directory. Agencies are encouraged to visit the site when looking for new board members or to post board vacancies. For more information, click here. [Source: Charity Village]
A star immigrant gives up on Canada - Internationally trained doctors are leaving Canada, and going to the US, where there are more residency spots than medical graduates. Read the article here.
New Canadians, new perspectives on philanthropy - Canada is a country well known for its ethnic diversity, a diversity that also extends into the philanthropic sector. Find out how different cultures and ethnic groups approach philanthropy and community involvement. Read the article here. [Source: Charity Village]
Foundation unveils integrating immigrant skills - Maytree and Ideas that Matter released a new publication that examines ways of integrating immigrant skills into the Ontario economy. The report identifies ten concrete initiatives the Ontario government should take to allow the province to benefit from the wealth of immigrant skills and experience. "Each idea has merit on its own. However, implemented in its entirety, the plan has the promise of creating meaningful and lasting change for immigrants and Ontarians," says Alan Broadbent, chair of the Maytree Foundation. Download the report here. [Source: Charity Village]
Nation Building Through Cities - by Elizabeth McIsaac offers a critique of the federal government's proposed 'dispersion' initiative, which would tie certain immigrants to a particular location for up to five years before being granted permanent resident status. Learn more here. [Source: Info@Maytree]
How to Make Immigration Work Better - This Caledon commentary by Alan Broadbent challenges Daniel Stoffman's view that immigration should be curbed. Instead, Broadbent puts forward suggestions for improving the settlement and integration of newcomers. Learn more here. [Source: Info@Maytree]
Immigrant Settlement & Social Inclusion in Canada - a paper prepared by Ratna Omidvar and Ted Richmond for the Laidlaw Foundation's series on Social Inclusion. You can read the paper here. [Source: Info@Maytree]
Charity Village feature on Maytree - Find out about the foundation's efforts to reach out to immigrants and refugees, its support of capacity building and leadership for other nonprofit organizations, and more in this article here. [Source: Charity Village]
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