Canadian Immigration Policy for the 21st Century

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Since 9/11 there have been many changes to the external environment of Canadian immigration, a number of criticisms of current immigration policy in Canada, and several proposals for dealing with current labour market needs and settlement patterns of immigrants to Canada. In Canadian Immigration Policy for the 21st Century authors examine the issues raised by these concerns.Topics covered include international context and immigration policy goals, the role of immigration in meeting Canada's demographic and labour market needs, decentralization of immigration policy with special focus on the Quebec perspective and the recent Manitoba experience, policy responses to increasing international labour mobility, immigration data resources in Canada, the changing immigrant experience in the labour market including issues of skill recognition and the effects of business cycles on labour market integration, and social inclusion of immigrants, including the health of immigrant children and visible minority enclaves in major Canadian cities. Contributors include Michael Abbott (Queen's University), Naomi Alboim (Queen's University), Roderic Beaujot (University of Western Ontario), David Card (University of California at Berkeley), Barry Chiswick (University of Illinois at Chicago), Gerry Clément (Manitoba Labour and Immigration Department), Don DeVoretz (Simon Fraser University), Erwin Diewert (University of British Columbia), Victoria Esses (University of Western Ontario), Alan Green (Queen's University), Gilles Grenier (University of Ottawa), Violet Kaspar (University of Toronto), Ted McDonald (University of New Brunswick), Alice Nakamura (University of Alberta), Masao Nakamura (University of British Columbia), Doug Norris (Statistics Canada), Garnett Picott (Statistics Canada), Jeffrey Reitz (University of Toronto), Craig Riddell (University of British Columbia), Janice Stein (University of Toronto), Arthur Sweetman (Queen's University), Yvan Turcotte (Ministère des Relations avec les Citoyens et de l'Immigration), and Chris Worswick (Carleton University).