Citizenship and Immigration committee  What can we do? If you are a permanent resident or already in Canada and your spouse comes to join you, the people who are sponsored to join family members tend to do well. They already have a foot in the door of the community. The important thing is to help family members who

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, my gut instinct, based on my experience living there for the last 12 years, tells me I see a huge difference between 12 years ago and now. Yes, we are ready.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As Howard mentioned, one of the obstacles to retaining these international students is to create some sort of match with the jobs available in the local area, as well as an awareness of the availability of those jobs among the students. Even if there are opportunities, students

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In terms of the temporary and the permanent, I think the important issue is to open the options to the temporary worker for permanent residency. In a way, the temporary workers are already building their network through their employment as well as their community, and if they wis

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Adding to that, my position is to look into the family settlement of immigrants as a unit of family. When you come to Nova Scotia and Canada all together, just because one person is working and settled in a labour market really doesn't hold those people in the region. I think tha

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good morning. Thank you for inviting us to present to this committee. I'm Yoko Yoshida, associate professor of sociology at Dalhousie University, and this is Howard Ramos, also a professor of sociology at Dalhousie University. Our presentation this morning is based on the brie