Thank you for your question, Mr. Menegakis.
I do in fact know the text you have in your hands very well, since I wrote it. However, I did say at the outset clearly that my testimony would not necessarily be about sponsored women, but more so about the expertise of the organization I represent, the Collectif des femmes immigrantes du Québec.
Regarding sponsored women, I can point out that we see them much less in organizations, since when they are sponsored, a network helps them out from the time they arrive. This causes a perverse effect. The advice that is given to them regarding integration into the workforce is often not well-founded. For instance, women are told to forget about their past careers and to begin again at the bottom of the ladder, or to take training as support workers in order to be able to find a job easily. If the same woman had gone to an organization that could assess her skills and take into account her schooling and professional experience, she could probably have been directed toward more satisfying and self-actualizing work. The fact that, generally, sponsored people do not have much to do with the integration services of the host society is a problem and often limits their future advancement possibilities.
In the statement you read, they in fact refer to a bidirectional integration process involving the host society and the new immigrants. This bidirectional process is more difficult in the case of sponsored women because often their harbour, their home port is the community, and sometimes remains the community. So often they do not benefit from the bridging role public or community services play.
Have I answered your question?