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Every year, many new immigrants are making Canada their new permanent home. Average of approximately 250,000 people per year come to Canada to immigrate. What are the challenges for them? First of all, most of new immigrants face language barrier. Especially children who immigrate with their parents in early age, are hard to have proper education, Because of largely absent of Canada government’s discourse and immigration policy (Costigan, Lehr, & Miao, 2016). Also for immigrants, finding secure job is much harder than Canadians. Immigrants who are educated and who had strong jobs back home before, find it frustrating that they can’t get the same jobs here. Even though they find a job, Immigrants are easy victims for discrimination and exploitation …show more content…

"Canada 's emphasis on immigration as a labour source is presumed to arise from the desire for gross population growth, economic stimulus, and the need to compensate for low birth rates among native-born Canadians" (Costigan, Lehr, & Miao, 2016). So in high levels of immigration, it will help Canada’s economic growing. Moreover in high levels of immigration system, Canada can get the benefits of multicultural. “when integration into Canadian society exists alongside support for upholding important meaningful beliefs and practices from the heritage culture, the whole society benefits because these bicultural individuals advance Canada 's multiculturalism goals.” (Costigan, Lehr, & Miao, 2016). One of the most widely studied benefits of multiculturalism on the individual level is creativity. “It has been consistently shown that multicultural experience can foster creativity both in an experimentally controlled setting and in the real world" (Costigan, Lehr, & Miao, …show more content…

From the text book, discrimination defined as “unequal treatment of various categories of people. Prejudice refers to attitudes, but discrimination is a matter of action.” (textbook). it pointed out that “institutional prejudice and discrimination” (textbook). Which means that bias built into the operation of society’s institutions, including schools, hospitals, the police, and the workplace. Prejudice and discrimination reinforce each other. “vicious circle means that prejudice and discrimination begin, often as an expression of ethnocentrism or an attempt to justify economic exploitation. As a result, a minority is socially disadvantaged, occupying a low position and seen as inferior. This circle repeats

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Canada has a little piece of almost every culture in the world, shown through the large amount of people moving to Canada from every continent in the world. The multitude of cultures is displayed through the plethora of festivals held throughout the country every year, such as the Folk Fest, Edmonton Food Festival, Heritage Festival and the International Film Festival, all bringing in various cultures and traditions from around the world. Canada has all of these festivals due to the large amount of immigration that was even shown in Anita Rau Badami’s essay my Canada, when she and her husband had moved from India to Vancouver. Canada is one if not the most desirable countries to immigrate to, not only for the living conditions but because of the ability to keep your culture and not have to assimilate to a “Canadian” culture. Thanks to immigration Canada has become a great model country to look at for cultural diversity and cultural acceptance that any country can look at and try to model in their own

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Additionally, economic challenges were prevalent, with limited job opportunities for Chinese immigrants, particularly in professional fields. Discrimination in pay and promotions also hindered Chinese immigrants' ability to achieve economic success.   Overall, Chinese immigrants in Canada faced a range of challenges during the 1970s and 1980s, including discrimination, language barriers, cultural differences, and economic obstacles. While some progress has been made in addressing these challenges, they continue to persist for many Chinese immigrants in Canada today. V. Regional differences in immigrant

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Canada accepts 250,000 immigrants every year, coming from more than 200 countries. Canada has the highest per capita immigration in the world three times higher than The United States, which makes Canada one of the most multiculturalist countries in the world. Immigration is a process where people come to a foreign country to settle permanently. Changes in immigration policy have always been a very essential part in shaping the Canadian history and the present. These changes in immigration policies resulted in the anti-racism, retrenchment and the post war economic

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Canada is the land of diversity. There are people from almost country here it is believed that about one in five women and girls who live in Canada were born in another country. There are a lot of women that migrate to Canada every year. “Immigrant women are often uprooted from their native countries against their will and come to find themselves trapped in abusive relationships without any means of emotional, financial or legal support”. “These women usually have no one to turn to for support other than the aggressor and/or his family.

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This aspect of immigrant policy in Canada is directly related to the underlying motive to allow “skilled laborers” into the country, which has a major effect on the Canadian economy. The economy provides an important “stepping stone” for encouraging migration to Canada, which can only be hennaed by allowing the immigrant’s family members to join him or her at a later time if they choose to do so. This would modify Regulation 117 to allow posthumous applications of family members to join their relatives in Canada as a form of economic incentive for greater social and psychological stability of the immigrant worker. This aspect of the transnational family would slowly become obsolete, especially in the context of improving Canada’s overall labor markets and productivity. In addition to family unity as a human rights, the Canadian government can utilize a more objective view of the immigrant labor markets as a vehicle to reunify immigrant families in the country.

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The improvement of the rights of the Canadian Immigrants Canada, as one of the biggest immigration countries, welcomes people from all over the the world and forms a representative multicultural atmosphere in today’s society. Over these few decays, the country has always been consummating the laws to provide immigrants equal rights and freedoms, and better treatments they could receive. However, Canadian immigration laws were not unprejudiced and it eventually caused a “legal discrimination” before 1976. The legal rights of the immigrant groups have improved significantly because of the demands of developing the country, the influences of the wars, and the globalization of the world. Since 1880s, more immigrants and foreigners came to Canada because of the railway construction project.

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Canada accepts approximately 250,000 immigrants from other countries around the world each year. One of the people mostly in demand in Canada is the skilled workers and professionals. They are citizens of other countries who have a bachelor’s degree and an advanced level of expertise in their chosen skilled occupation. People that apply under the skilled worker immigration class are competent in at least one of the country 's official

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