New Immigrants Seeking New Places: The Role of Policy Changes in the Regional Distribution of New Immigrants to Canada
| Autor: | Garnett Picot, Aneta Bonikowska, Feng Hou |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Global and Planetary Change
Economic growth business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Immigration 0211 other engineering and technologies Public policy Distribution (economics) 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology Destinations Political science 0502 economics and business New immigrants Demographic economics 050207 economics business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Growth and Change. 48:174-190 |
| ISSN: | 0017-4815 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/grow.12144 |
| Popis: | Canada, the U.S., and Australia have recently experienced an increased regional dispersion of entering immigrants. American research suggests that a mixture of economic push factors (away from states like California) and pull factors (toward states with growth of low-wage jobs) and changing government policies and regulations contributed to the development of the New Gateways. Very few studies have been conducted to determine why the regional dispersion of entering immigrants occurred in Canada. This paper assesses the extent to which changes in immigration selection programs, notably, the Provincial Nominee Programs, contributed to the regional dispersion of entering immigrants. Using data from immigrant landing records, this study shows that different factors accounted for changes in the share of immigrants settling in different destinations. Changes in immigration selection programs played the primary role in the increasing numbers going to Saskatchewan and Manitoba, although improving economic conditions may have played an indirect role. Shifts in immigrant source regions were an important factor in the decrease in immigration to Toronto and in the increase to Montreal. Economic conditions likely played a significant role in the changes in the shares of new immigrants going to Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, and Edmonton. |
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