Canada Express Entry is a points-based immigration program designed to facilitate the efficient selection and admission of skilled immigrants to Canada. Applicants create an online profile, where they are assigned a Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score based on factors such as age, education, wo...
And most went on to get highly paid jobs. Many Chinese families left Chinatown and moved to the more expensive outskirts. Chinatown, however, is still as lively as ever. 1. When did the first Chinese immigrants come to London? A. In the 1950s. B. More than 200 years ago. C. After...
Through a fictional narrative based on my fieldwork with permanent residents living in Montreal, I show how the immigration selection system works in practice. Applied to the case of selected immigrants, the concept of hospitality forces us to distinguish practices from national discourses....
As different groups jockeyed in the race to make fortunes, Chinese immigrants were an easy target, said Linda Yip, an expert in Chinese genealogy who is working with Ancestry on the project. “We are physically different and culturally quite different,” Yip said. For example, Chinese gold mi...
My ancestors were Western European immigrants to the territory we now call Canada. A mixture of English, Welsh, & French stock. I’m 4th generation European immigrant ‘Canadian.’ What legacy do I come from? I come from lumberjack stock. We’re several generations of people living in the ...
The economic plates are shifting. While we sit and argue about abortion and immigrants, our GDP has remained flat for a decade. China’s has soared to now rival the United States. That is not to say that America is finished. If progressive politics can replace the internationalist gridlock ...
war.Or maybe you live in a place where there are few jobs and little chance to earn a living.Your family decides to move-not to another town,but to another country.You and your family have become immigrants.People are called immigrants when they move to a foreign country to make their ...
Detroit's population began to dwindle as the economy of the city declined. As the people faded away, so did Hudson's, including stores in the suburbs and elsewhere around the nation. The flagship store closed in January 1983 after 102 years in business. The building stood empty until 1998 ...
He impressed me as a man of compassion witha concernforjustice and fairness, in particular, his questions about the IIIC work with immigrants from many ethnicities and religious, and the challenges in integrating native born and foreign born for the benefit of all. I was impressed by his ...
While autism is rare in Somalia the incidence of the migrant’s children rapidly jumped to match children in North America. This was evident in Toronto when it was studied. In Somali’s immigrants, they have specific cultural names for autism here. They believe autism is a Western disease. ...