Problems of Immigrants of Canada

Introduction

The policy of Immigration of Canada is the most explicit of what might be called a population policy. In a liberal democratic state like Canada, only the rate of immigration into force can be regulated, unlike those of births, mortality and the emigration. Regulating the selection tools and controlling the number of entries, the government aims to achieve various national goals.

Immigration has become an important subject in Canada, not only regarding government policies, but also in Research University and in the inter-relations. Almost one in six Canadians is indeed born abroad. In Toronto, four in ten residents were born outside Canada. More of 2.5 million new immigrants arrived during the last decade (1990 - 2000), a record since the beginning of the twentieth century. Immigration contributes Today 50% of the annual population growth of the country and estimated 60% of children enrolled in school have at least one parent born abroad. Since its inception, Canada has faced at all levels with the neighborhood of United States, and its immigration policy did not escape this rule. Throughout the twentieth century, the United States has attracted the attention of the migrants without necessarily having a policy for recruitment. Canada, on the contrary, the country was less often the second chance that the country's second choice after his neighbor. If Canada has experienced periods of high immigration, many of them eventually settled in the United States after a few years in Canada.

We are here discussing two articles which are written on the problems faced by the immigrants of Canada. One article is about the differentiation for immigrants in labor markets. Another one is about the victimization of immigrants.

Why Do Skilled Immigrants Struggle in the Labor Market? A Field Experiment with Six Thousand Resumes

Philip Oreopoulos

According to the article, immigrants in Canada are discriminated based on their ethnic names and their genders. Most experts believe that the fundamental role of economic analysis immigration is to support, or conversely disprove the thesis that immigrant workers displace native workers and can reduce the level wages.

Firstly, in the introduction, the author stated that the percentage of unemployed immigrants in Canada was higher than the percentage of unemployed non-immigrants, and their wages were “35% lower than native-born workers (Oreopoulos, 2009, p.2). He believed that the gap in the immigrant' wage was because of “lower returns to foreign experience, especially among immigrants from Asia and the Pacific” (Oreopoulos, 2009, p.4). Next, in the article, the author indicated about the discrimination about their ethnic names. According to Oreopoulos, their ethnic names would affect the “callback rate” (Oreopoulos, 2009, p.5). He showed that white-sounding names created callbacks much more often than the same resumes sent with black-sounding names (Oreopoulos, 2009, p.6).

The author has also provided the reasons of non-selection or discrimination of immigrants in recruitment and selection. Canadian-born individuals with names that "sound" English have a greater chance of receiving a call to be called for interview compared with individuals born abroad, even with respect to those ...