Responding to Immigrants' Settlement Needs: The Canadian Experience

Vineberg, Robert

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-2688-8

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“…The Federal Settlement Model: Government to Governance Settlement services in Canada have endured a long history of political instability (Vineberg, 2012) and scholars have noted a number of challenges for these organizations due to budget cuts, administrative requirements, and increased competition in the sector largely as a result of changes made in the mid-1990s (Mukhtar, et al, 2016;Acheson & Laforest, 2013). In 1995, the federal government downloaded provision of settlement services to the provinces that were able to enter into special agreements with the federal government, in part to alleviate pressures on the budget for the federal department of Citizenship and Immigration (Vineberg, 2012).…”

Section: Overview Of the Formal Settlement Sector In Canadamentioning

confidence: 99%

Responding to the settlement needs of newcomers to Canada: the role of community organizations in the Greater Toronto area

Wright¹

2021

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This study analyzes the role of grassroots organizations in the Greater Toronto Area who support newcomers to Canada. A qualitative thematic analysis was used, with staff from three grassroots organizations and two key informants participating. The study aims, first, to gather practical knowledge from these organizations about the actions needed to improve settlement outcomes for newcomers. Secondly, it seeks to learn what challenges grassroots organizations face in continuing and expanding their services, and how they can be supported in their work. The organizations of focus do not provide direct, government-funded settlement services, but work towards goals of long-term immigrant success and integration. Findings included the need for more responsive and culturally-relevant programming among settlement organizations, the challenges with attaining funding, and the importance of partnerships among related institutions. These actors have valuable insights on newcomers’ current settlement needs and can make important knowledge contributions to the settlement sector. Key words: immigrants; settlement and integration; public services; grassroots organizations; Canada

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Responding to the settlement needs of newcomers to Canada: the role of community organizations in the Greater Toronto area

Wright¹

2021

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“…Trois éléments sont d'une importance particulière pour l'identification de l'immigration comme ressource pour toutes les provinces : 1) l'achèvement du retrait du gouvernement fédéral des modes d'intervention et de financement des politiques sociales mis en place à partir de 1945 (Banting, 2005) ; 2) la remise en question de la participation fédérale -puis dans plusieurs instances la dévolution -en matière de politique du marché de l'emploi à partir des années 1990 (Wood et Klassen, 2009) ; et 3) un repositionnement de l'État fédéral en matière de support et de développement de l'économie canadienne. Ces éléments s'ajoutent à l'offre faite aux provinces, au cours de l'exercice de révision des programmes et des dépenses fédérales, de leur transférer les responsabilités concernant l'éta-blissement des immigrants (Vineberg, 2012).…”

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La construction provinciale comme mécanisme : le cas de l’immigration au Manitoba

Paquet¹

2015

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Dans le cadre d’une analyse de la croissance des activités en immigration et en intégration de tous les gouvernements provinciaux depuis le début des années 1990, cet article propose une revitalisation de la notion de « construction provinciale ». En prenant comme point de départ les critiques de Robert A. Young, Philippe Faucher et André Blais (1984), il y est suggéré de repositionner la construction provinciale en tant que mécanisme social. Par le biais de cette approche mécanistique et suivant l’observation du mécanisme dans dix cas, il est avancé que le mécanisme de construction provinciale opère par le biais de trois composantes à l’échelle d’une province – l’activation, la consensualisation et l’institutionnalisation – et produit des effets variables, en fonction du contexte dans lequel il est enclenché. Le potentiel heuristique de cette approche est illustré en retraçant comment un mécanisme de construction provinciale centré sur l’immigration s’est mis en mouvement au Manitoba à partir des années 1990.As part of an analysis of the growth of the activities of the ten provincial governments in the domains of immigration and integration since the 1990s, this paper proposes a revitalization of the concept of “province building.” Taking as its starting point the criticisms of Robert A. Young, Philippe Faucher, and André Blais (1984), it is suggested to reposition province building as a social mechanism. Through this mechanistic approach and building on ten case studies, it proposes that the mechanism of province building operates via three components: activation, consensus building, and institutionalization. Despite these similarities in operation, the mechanism of province building produces variegated effects, depending on the context in which it is engaged. The heuristic potential of this approach is illustrated by tracing how a mechanism of province building centered on immigration has operated in Manitoba since the 1990s

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“…Overall, provincial positions remained firm and centred on the inequitable distribution of funding, causing negotiations to stall (interview 4). The paralysis led the federal government to offer a limited-time increase in funding to all provinces (interview 9; Vineberg, 2012: 45–46). This offer aided the federal government in establishing memoranda of understanding with six provinces and one territory.…”

Section: Provinces As Maintaining Agents: Settlement Renewalmentioning

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“…The third explanation cites the federal government deficit crisis of the 1990s as a source of change. Authors supporting this claim identify the process of settlement renewal (Canada, 1994b), part of the broader exercise of program review, as the force behind the signing of the British Columbia and Manitoba settlement transfer agreements (Banting, 2012: 267; Seidle, 2010b; Vineberg, 2011: 37–38, 2012: 43–47). Others, such as Dirks (1995: 97–98), highlight the fact that the sharing of costs related to immigrant integration with the provinces became a concern for the federal government as early as the 1980s.…”

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The Federalization of Immigration and Integration in Canada

Paquet¹

2014

Can J Pol Sci

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Between 1990 and 2010, a gradual process of institutional change has affected Canada's immigration and integration governance regime. The central characteristic of this process is the emergence of a new legitimate institutional group of actors: Canadian provinces. This change corresponds to a federalization of Canada's immigration and integration governance regime. It is a break from the previous pattern of federal dominance and provincial avoidance. It is not the result of diminished federal intervention in immigration and cannot be explained by exogenous shocks. Current explanations of this evolution focus on federal decisions and have trouble explaining provincial mobilization. Using a mechanistic approach to the analysis of social processes and insights on gradual institutional changes, this article demonstrates that provinces have been the central agents bringing about the federalization of Canada's immigration and integration governance regime between 1990 and 2010. Via a mechanism of province building centred on immigration, provinces have triggered and maintained in movement a decentralizing mechanism. The interactions of these two mechanisms, over time, gave rise to the federalization of immigration and integration in Canada.

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Responding to Immigrants' Settlement Needs: The Canadian Experience

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Responding to the settlement needs of newcomers to Canada: the role of community organizations in the Greater Toronto area

Responding to the settlement needs of newcomers to Canada: the role of community organizations in the Greater Toronto area

La construction provinciale comme mécanisme : le cas de l’immigration au Manitoba

The Federalization of Immigration and Integration in Canada

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