Challenges of Francophone Immigration in Northern Ontario Communities: The Cases of Hearst, Timmins, and Kapuskasing

Lacassagne, Aurélie

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-40424-0_13

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“…It is also useful for smaller centers to actively recruit immigrant entrepreneurs to diversify the economy and provide more jobs, versus solely recruiting immigrants for vacant job positions (Lacassagne, 2017). From a public attitudes perspective, entrepreneurs may also be seen as contributing to the local economy and not as taking away jobs from the locals, in contrast to when local companies look to foreign labor to fill positions (Wiginton, 2013).…”

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Immigration to smaller urban and rural communities: Challenges and opportunities.

Esses¹,

Adegbembo²

2022

Contemporary Immigration: Psychological Perspectives to Address Challenges and Inform Solutions.

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Editors' Note: The classic studies of immigrants from the early 20th century tell a stereotypical story: Immigrants arrive and occupy low-cost neighborhoods in urban centers, then through hard work and gradual integration over generations, they move to the suburbs and become part of the urban middle class. But this is an incomplete picture because some immigrants also choose to settle in smaller urban and rural communities. Esses and Adegbembo discuss advantages of having immigrants move to smaller and rural communities, and also ways in which this trend can be encouraged through federal and local initiatives. But as Feddes and colleagues (Chapter 3) point out, receiving societies members are often not welcoming toward immigrants, and negative attitudes can be even stronger in smaller urban

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Section: Employment Opportunitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%