Immigration as a Tool for the Development of Official Language Minority Communities

Immigration as a Tool for the Development of Official Language Minority Communities
Author: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Official Languages
Publisher:
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2003
Genre: Canada
ISBN:

Previous work has shown that immigration hurts Canada's Francophone population, and especially its official language minorities. This report contains the Standing Committee's observations and recommendations on immigration and its impact on the development of official language minority communities. It looks at the 4 phases of the immigration process: promotion and selection abroad; settling in Canada; adapting to the host community; integrating into the community. It also addresses the special immigration needs of Quebec's Anglophone community.

Recruitment, Intake and Integration

Recruitment, Intake and Integration
Author: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Official Languages
Publisher:
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2010
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

This report is intended as an evaluation of the initiatives taken by the federal government in the area of immigration to OLMCs since the tabling of the 2003 report. [...] What this takes into account is the attraction that English can have on immigrants in Quebec, or used to have in the past.25 The issue of the definition and counting of immigrants who's FOLS is French and their inclusion in the statistics for the francophone group prompted many questions among the Committee members. [...] Statistics Canada treats double responses as follows: half the respondents in the French- English FOLS group are indexed as francophones and the other half as anglophones, so as to respect the relative frequency of use.26 This was the procedure decided upon by Treasury Board in the 1990s: The thing is that usually what the Treasury Board does is, and the approach that was adopted in the early 1990 [...] To respond to the recriminations of the FCFA, another order in council was published in August 2010, stating that the simplified census questionnaire of May 2011 will include additional questions on language in order to comply with the provisions of the OLA relating to offer of services to the population. [...] It would be in the interest of the federal government, the provinces and territories, and the communities, within the framework of their partnerships, to harmonize their definitions and variables and to coordinate the treatment of their statistics in order to obtain comparable data on immigration to OLMCs.

Evaluation of the Immigration to Official Language Minority Communities (OLMC) Initiative

Evaluation of the Immigration to Official Language Minority Communities (OLMC) Initiative
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 61
Release: 2017
Genre: Canada
ISBN: 9780660093086

“This report presents the findings of the evaluation of Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada’s (IRCC) Immigration to Official Language Minority Communities Initiative (hereafter the OLMC Initiative). The OLMC Initiative derives its mandate to support and enhance the development and vitality of OLMCs from the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) and the Official Languages Act (OLA), and includes various activities within IRCC to foster the promotion, recruitment and integration of French-speaking immigrants to Francophone minority communities (FMCs) outside of Quebec, as well as to further knowledge development and sharing in relation to both FMCs and English-Speaking Communities in Quebec (ESCQ)”--Executive summary, p. iv.

The Education of Language Minority Immigrants in the United States

The Education of Language Minority Immigrants in the United States
Author: Terrence G. Wiley
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2009
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1847692109

This book focuses on educational language minority immigrant issues in the United States. It draws from quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to inform educational policy and practice. The contributions are grouped according to three broad themes: factors predicting language proficiency, the role of language and identity in the lives of immigrant language minority youth, and issues of educational policy related to this group.

Educating Immigrant Children

Educating Immigrant Children
Author: Charles L. Glenn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 758
Release: 1996-08-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136788417

This study is concerned with the ways in which a dozen " knowledge-based societies" of Western Europe and the English-speaking world respond to unprecedented cultural and linguistic diversity resulting from the flow of immigrants and refugees since World War II. It asks how public policy has sought to use schooling to minimize the potentially divisive and inequitable effects of this diversity and to provide opportunities to the children of immigrants. It asks also how the nature of each of these societies affects the meaning of integration into each of them.

New Immigrants, Changing Communities

New Immigrants, Changing Communities
Author: Elzbieta M. Gozdziak
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2008-05-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1461633885

This book is a product of research stemming from a multiyear project conducted by Elzbieta M. Gozdziak and Micah N. Bump for the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University. The project studied immigration integration in areas that had no recent experience with foreign-born newcomers and the information presented within this book builds upon this by identifying and reviewing promising practices and strategies that facilitated immigrant integration. Gozdziak and Bump include descriptions of the most effective approaches as well as an analysis of challenges within resettlement programs. By highlighting successful initiatives in newcomer communities it seeks to assist stakeholders in their decision-making processes. As newcomer-related issues are complex and solutions are rarely "one-size fits all," the programs described here are unique responses to particular issues in individual communities, and they may not be an exact fit for other communities with similar problems. The book is not a cookbook or a blueprint that can be applied anywhere and everywhere. Rather, it is meant as inspiration and motivation for trying out new strategies. Successful practices discussed in this book include: programs facilitating English language acquisition, access to culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate health care services, access to vocational training and higher education opportunities, community development, microenterprise, creation of homeownership opportunities for immigrants, and efforts to ensure safety of newcomers. It is the hope of the authors that many practitioners—including service providers, community leaders, representatives of local governments, and donors both public and private—will find this book useful.

Language, Ethnicity, and Education

Language, Ethnicity, and Education
Author: Peter Broeder
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 142
Release: 1999
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781853594304

The book presents case studies of immigrant minority groups and immigrant minority languages in Europe and abroad, analysed from demographic, sociolinguistic, and educational perspectives. The demographic perspective focuses on the role of language and ethnicity in multicultural population statistics, the sociolinguistic perspective on the vitality of immigrant minority languages, and the educational perspective on the status of immigrant minority languages in education.