scholarly journals Immigration Gridlock: Assessing Whether Canada’s Express Entry is an Effective Immigration System for International Students’ Transition into Permanent Residency?

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1059-1078
Author(s):  
Chen Wang
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Skilled Worker ◽  
Foreign Nationals ◽  
Current Regime ◽  
Permanent Residence ◽  
Permanent Residency ◽  
Permanent Residents

This research critically analyzes the introduction of the Express Entry system in Canada, requiring foreign nationals to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) and wait for an invitation before being allowed to apply for permanent residence. Drawing on available empirical data, I argue that this reform jeopardized international students’ chance to become permanent residents. Despite recent modifications that intended to improve their situation, the pathways to permanent residence of international students are still restricted. Particularly, international PhD students are negatively impacted as the previously existing PhD stream under the Federal Skilled Worker Program covertly disappeared from the current regime. This research concludes with suggestions on how to further modify the current immigration system to facilitate international students’ transitions into Canada.

scholarly journals Pursuing permanence: former international students’ trajectories to permanent residency in Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianca Gomez
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Structuration Theory ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Emotional Labour ◽  
Permanent Residence ◽  
Anthony Giddens ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Permanent Residency ◽  
And Control

This exploratory study investigates former international students’ experiences pursuing permanent status with the use of primary data from interviews with five individuals. Guided by the question, “what characterizes former international students’ trajectories to permanent residence” and based on the understanding that discourses of exclusion and control inform immigration policies today (Fobear, 2014), personal experiences are explored as realities of temporariness in which subjects are contained by the following forms of regulation: time limits, employment specificity, and temporary legal status. Anthony Giddens’ structuration theory is employed to showcase participants as “knowledgeable” (Sewell, 1992:4) and reflexive agents (Turner, 1986); how they persevere and negotiate their way to permanent residence by enacting creative strategies and enduring the emotional labour that characterize their search for and securing of ‘skilled’ employment while mitigating the immediate need for income, in reframing their mindsets and in their reflections upon the meaning of their pursuits for permanence.

scholarly journals Pursuing permanence: former international students’ trajectories to permanent residency in Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianca Gomez
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Structuration Theory ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Emotional Labour ◽  
Permanent Residence ◽  
Anthony Giddens ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Permanent Residency ◽  
And Control

This exploratory study investigates former international students’ experiences pursuing permanent status with the use of primary data from interviews with five individuals. Guided by the question, “what characterizes former international students’ trajectories to permanent residence” and based on the understanding that discourses of exclusion and control inform immigration policies today (Fobear, 2014), personal experiences are explored as realities of temporariness in which subjects are contained by the following forms of regulation: time limits, employment specificity, and temporary legal status. Anthony Giddens’ structuration theory is employed to showcase participants as “knowledgeable” (Sewell, 1992:4) and reflexive agents (Turner, 1986); how they persevere and negotiate their way to permanent residence by enacting creative strategies and enduring the emotional labour that characterize their search for and securing of ‘skilled’ employment while mitigating the immediate need for income, in reframing their mindsets and in their reflections upon the meaning of their pursuits for permanence.

scholarly journals Assessing Canada’s support of international students: a comprehensive review of Canada’s retention and settlement of its “Model Immigrants”

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zaheer A. Dauwer
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
International Students ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Canadian Education ◽  
Socioeconomic Integration ◽  
Settlement Services ◽  
Permanent Residency ◽  
Permanent Residents

The unprecedented growth in the number of international students in Canada over the last decade has drawn the attention of policy makers at all levels of government in Canada. The federal, provincial and territorial levels of government have introduced permanent residency pathways to encourage international students to become permanent residents of Canada. International students are an attractive group as prospective immigrants because of their Canadian education and human capital. However, they experience variety of challenges transitioning to employment and permanent residency in Canada. Lack of limited co-operative education opportunities and labor market preparation hinders the process of finding employment while the absence of settlement services and the complexities of immigration policies complicate the process of seeking permanent residency in Canada. These realities hold significant policy implications for the federal and provincial levels of government because Canada continues to admit educated and skilled labor in order to address labor and demographic needs. Key words: socioeconomic integration, human capital, internationalization, transitional barriers, recruitment and retention

scholarly journals The Question of Racism: How to Understand the Violent Attacks on Indian Students in Australia?

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michiel Baas
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Academic Researcher ◽  
Skilled Migration ◽  
The Past ◽  
Indian Student ◽  
Permanent Residency ◽  
Indian Students ◽  
Permanent Residents ◽  
Newspaper Articles

For the past ten years I have been involved in research on the topic of Indian student-migrants in Australia. What started in India in 2004 with the ostensibly simple questions why there was such a surge in Indian students’ enrolments in Australia, turned into a study which had the question of migration at the heart of its investigation. Realising that the majority of Indian students based their decision for Australia on the relatively easy pathway the country offered towards permanent residency my research focused on understanding how such trajectories from students to migrants took shape. However, as I argued in Imagined Mobility (Anthem Press, 2010), while the propensity to apply for PR may be high, permanently residing in Australia was often not the objective. Instead many Indian students saw a PR as facilitating the start of transnational existence. In this paper I will draw upon a vast collection of newspaper articles as well as ethnographic material collected over this period in order to produce a personalised account of how I, as an academic researcher, observed the discourse about Indian students in Australia ‘migrate’ from them being welcome international students and would-be migrants to unwelcome profiteers whose place in Australian cities was highly contested. Questions I will focus on are: how did the violent attacks and subsequent debate about their racist nature impact the lives and trajectories of Indian student-migrants as starting transnationals; how did they themselves reflect on these attacks especially in relation to them now being ‘permanent residents’; and finally, what role do ‘Indian students’ continue to play in Australia’s skilled migration debate?

scholarly journals Assessing Canada’s support of international students: a comprehensive review of Canada’s retention and settlement of its “Model Immigrants”

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zaheer A. Dauwer
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
International Students ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Canadian Education ◽  
Socioeconomic Integration ◽  
Settlement Services ◽  
Permanent Residency ◽  
Permanent Residents

The unprecedented growth in the number of international students in Canada over the last decade has drawn the attention of policy makers at all levels of government in Canada. The federal, provincial and territorial levels of government have introduced permanent residency pathways to encourage international students to become permanent residents of Canada. International students are an attractive group as prospective immigrants because of their Canadian education and human capital. However, they experience variety of challenges transitioning to employment and permanent residency in Canada. Lack of limited co-operative education opportunities and labor market preparation hinders the process of finding employment while the absence of settlement services and the complexities of immigration policies complicate the process of seeking permanent residency in Canada. These realities hold significant policy implications for the federal and provincial levels of government because Canada continues to admit educated and skilled labor in order to address labor and demographic needs. Key words: socioeconomic integration, human capital, internationalization, transitional barriers, recruitment and retention

Symbiotic Brain Drains

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeline Y. Hsu
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Knowledge Worker ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigration Reform ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Educational Exchange ◽  
Exchange Programs ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
Permanent Residency ◽  
The Cold War

This chapter analyzes immigration reform and the knowledge worker recruitment aspects of the Hart–Celler Act of 1965 to track the intensifying convergence of educational exchange programs, economic nationalism, and immigration reform. During the Cold War, the State Department expanded cultural diplomacy programs so that the numbers of international students burgeoned, particularly in the fields of science. Although the programs were initially conceived as a way of instilling influence over the future leaders of developing nations, international students, particularly from Taiwan, India, and South Korea, took advantage of minor changes in immigration laws and bureaucratic procedures that allowed students, skilled workers, and technical trainees to gain legal employment and eventually permanent residency and thereby remain in the United States.

scholarly journals Learning Program of National Vision Cultivation to Indonesian Children with Permanent Resident Status

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-19
Author(s):  
Khoerul Izzati Izzati ◽  
Wulan Adiarti
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Permanent Resident ◽  
Permanent Residency ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The City ◽  
Permanent Residents ◽  
Local Languages

Many conflicts that arise in Indonesia such as loss of humanity, love and respect for NKRI, recognition of the culture by other nations, causing division between regions, countries and nations. Therefore, it becomes an important thing to cultivate learning national vision into the nation's next-generation, especially from an early age. Various character values ​​need to be applied to children, especially the character to love culture of the nation and country, which is grown through learning the cultivation of national vision. So, children know the origin of their birth and various cultures of their resident people. This study aims to determine the learning program for the cultivation of national vision in Indonesian children with permanent resident status (PR) at Little Stars Kindergarten, School of Indonesia (Singapore) Ltd. In addition, this study aims to see how the behavior of students after participating in the learning of national vision at Little Stars Kindergarten, School of Indonesia (Singapore) Ltd. The target of this study is Indonesian children with permanent resident (PR) status, aged 4-6 years at Little Stars Kindergarten, School of Indonesia (Singapore) Ltd. This study uses qualitative methods, with data collection through observation, interviews and documentation (triangulation). Permanent Resident is the legal status granted by a country so that it has the same position as a citizen. Almost all students at SIS Little Stars are permanent residents. The results of this study indicated that students with permanent residency (PR) status at Little Stars Kindergarten, Indonesia School (Singapore) Ltd, have diverse national perspectives. The national vision possessed by students includes: knowing the city or country of origin at birth, local languages, special foods, Indonesian national songs, some folk songs, and general knowledge about Indonesian culture. Students still have a national vision for Indonesian, even though they have long-lived and settled in Singapore. This is the output of the learning of national vision conducted by the teacher.

scholarly journals The impact of visa status and Medicare eligibility on people diagnosed with HIV in Western Australia: a qualitative report

Sexual Health ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Herrmann ◽  
Joan Wardrop ◽  
Mina John ◽  
Silvana Gaudieri ◽  
Michaela Lucas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Generic Drugs ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Antiretroviral Drugs ◽  
Access To Treatment ◽  
Hiv Serostatus ◽  
Permanent Residency ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Permanent Residents ◽  
Rate Of Response

Background: In Australia, temporary visa holders are ineligible for Medicare and subsidised antiretroviral drugs. Additionally, HIV testing is not mandatory for visas unless applicants seek work in the health sector. We sought to understand the impact of HIV and issues of access and adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in people holding temporary visas and permanent residents. Methods: Data were gathered from interviews with 22 participants. Information concerning medication adherence, side effects, CD4 T-cell count, viral load and rate of response to generic drugs were collected. Results: The mean age was 33.4 years (±s.d. = 6.0), 21 out of 22 were from HIV-prevalent areas in East Africa and Asia, 14 out of 22 were on temporary visas, 12 were ineligible for Medicare, 14 out of 22 were diagnosed during health screening, 19 out of 22 risk exposures were in country of origin, 8 out of 17 were taking generic ART at an average cost of $180 per month, adherence was excellent and self-reported side-effects were relatively infrequent. Participants applying for visa continuations and permanent residency were fearful, believing their HIV serostatus would prejudice their applications. Patients cited belief in ART efficacy, were motivated to maintain therapy and were anxious about lack of access to treatment in their countries of origin. Conclusion: Adherence to antiretroviral drugs in Medicare-ineligible HIV-infected individuals is excellent despite limited access to treatment. The threat of visa non-renewal and the likely failure of applications for permanent residency result in considerable anxiety and confidentiality concerns.

scholarly journals The Impact of Changes to the CEC Program on International Students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
None GOVision
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Canadian Experience ◽  
Permanent Residency ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Impact

Acknowledgements This study, produced on behalf of Global Orient Vision, would not have been possible without the support and guidance of Harald Bauder, Howard Lin, and Hannah Kovacs from Ryerson University, Robert Vineberg, and all those who have offered us a helping hand. Introduction Canada has long been known for its openness and diversity. Throughout history, immigration has been a key part of Canada’s growth and development. Globalization has enabled Canada to attract the best and brightest in an effort to diversify and improve the workforce and society as a whole. This trend precipitated the introduction of the “Canadian Experience Class” (CEC) in 2008. The CEC allows applicants with sufficient language skills, a Canadian post-secondary degree, and one year of Canadian work experience to access a relatively straightforward route to permanent residency (Citizenship and Immigration Canada, 2008).

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