scholarly journals Service needs and gaps for international students transitioning to permanent residency in a "two-step" immigration process : a Toronto-based study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Roach Roach ◽  
Harald Bauder
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
International Student ◽  
Service Needs ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Canadian Experience ◽  
Immigration Process ◽  
Front Line Workers ◽  
Permanent Residency ◽  
Canada Data

Despite the increase in efforts to attract and retain international students in Canada, including the introduction of the Canadian Experience Class in 2008, there has been little investigation into what supports will assist international students as they transition from students to workers to migrants. This research paper is a Toronto-based investigation of the service needs and gaps that exist for international students aiming to transition to permanent residency in Canada. Data gathered from interviews with front-line workers assisting international students, an immigrant-serving organization, and government suggests that immigration policy reforms aiming to attract and retain international students have not been accompanied by the necessary changes to traditional settlement and international student services resulting in service gaps for this segment of Canada's international student population. The present study also connects these findings to neoliberal immigration policies and practices in place in Canada since the 1990s.

scholarly journals Service needs and gaps for international students transitioning to permanent residency in a "two-step" immigration process : a Toronto-based study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Roach Roach ◽  
Harald Bauder
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
International Student ◽  
Service Needs ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Canadian Experience ◽  
Immigration Process ◽  
Front Line Workers ◽  
Permanent Residency ◽  
Canada Data

Despite the increase in efforts to attract and retain international students in Canada, including the introduction of the Canadian Experience Class in 2008, there has been little investigation into what supports will assist international students as they transition from students to workers to migrants. This research paper is a Toronto-based investigation of the service needs and gaps that exist for international students aiming to transition to permanent residency in Canada. Data gathered from interviews with front-line workers assisting international students, an immigrant-serving organization, and government suggests that immigration policy reforms aiming to attract and retain international students have not been accompanied by the necessary changes to traditional settlement and international student services resulting in service gaps for this segment of Canada's international student population. The present study also connects these findings to neoliberal immigration policies and practices in place in Canada since the 1990s.

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).

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).

Acculturation Motivation in International Student Adjustment and Permanent Residency Intentions

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stella Dentakos ◽  
Maxine Wintre ◽  
Saeid Chavoshi ◽  
Lorna Wright
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Peer Relationships ◽  
International Student ◽  
Cultural Adjustment ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Student Adjustment ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Comparison Groups ◽  
English Competence ◽  
Permanent Residency

The present study uses a two-phase mixed-methods design to explore the role of motivation to acculturate within the international student experience. Hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to test acculturation motivation (AM) as a predictor of international student adjustment and permanent residency intentions, over and above age, gender, academic year, and English competence. Greater motivation to acculturate was indeed a significant predictor of international student adjustment and increased intentions of pursuing permanent host country residency. To better understand how international students’ experiences relate to levels of AM, qualitative analyses were employed. International students with low levels of AM were more likely to express negative feelings about cross-cultural adjustment, university perception, and peer relationships, compared to students with high levels of AM. Despite such differences, academic and developmental struggles as well as academic successes were similarly voiced across both comparison groups.

scholarly journals (Re)Learning to Live Together in 2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. xv-xviii
Author(s):  
Darla K. Deardorff
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Front Line ◽  
10Th Anniversary ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Winter Olympics ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
Front Line Workers ◽  
Human Connection

Ten years ago, the world was quite a different place with the devastation of a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti, the exuberance of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the release of the first iPad, the launch of Instagram, and the beginning of Arab Spring.  Fast forward to 2020 and not only is it the 10th anniversary of the Journal of International Students, but the world is facing unprecedented times with a global pandemic that has illustrated the interconnectedness of humankind like never before.  We have all been reminded of the power of human connection as we experience isolation, confinement, social distancing, and even fear.  We have witnessed powerful images of front-line workers giving their all, and neighbors in cities and towns across the world connecting from balconies and through windowpanes. These images have reminded us how much our lives depend on those around us, and how important it is that we renew our efforts in learning how to live together.

The ‘soft power’ of marketisation: the administrative assembling of Irish youth justice work

2020 ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Katharina Swirak
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Youth Justice ◽  
Distinct Mode ◽  
Professional Field ◽  
Front Line Workers ◽  
Administrative Governance ◽  
The Way

This chapter is based on the premise that marketisation extends beyond strategies such as privatisation or monetisation, but encroaches into our life-worlds more subtly. Based on the analysis of recent Irish youth justice policy reforms, it is suggested that softer aspects of marketisation become visible in the way that ‘problems’ or ‘solutions to problems’ are written and talked about. Importantly, this chapter traces how dominant discourses ‘travel’ from sites of administrative governance into the imaginations of front-line workers engaging with young people. It is further argued that the introduction of administrative governance is emblematic of neo-liberalism’s distinct mode of reason with the problematic effect of constructing young people and their families as responsible for their own self-improvement and self-realisation. Through its anti-political nature, administrative governance eschews important considerations relating to the wider contexts of youthful ‘offending’ and the professional field of ‘youth justice work’.

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 Factors influencing participation in an Ebola vaccine trial among front-line workers in Guinea

Vaccine ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (48) ◽  
pp. 7165-7170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyra H. Grantz ◽  
Pauline Claudot ◽  
Micky Kambala ◽  
Mariama Kouyaté ◽  
Aboubacar Soumah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vaccine Trial ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Front Line Workers

scholarly journals COVID-19 confessions: a qualitative exploration of healthcare workers experiences of working with COVID-19

BMJ Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. e043949
Author(s):  
Paul Bennett ◽  
S Noble ◽  
Stephen Johnston ◽  
David Jones ◽  
Rachael Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Improve Patient Care ◽  
Front Line ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The Face ◽  
Discharged Patients ◽  
Front Line Workers ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Qualitative Exploration

ObjectivesTo gain insight into the experiences and concerns of front-line National Health Service (NHS) workers while caring for patients with COVID-19.DesignQualitative analysis of data collected through an anonymous website (www.covidconfidential) provided a repository of uncensored COVID-19 experiences of front-line NHS workers, accessed via a link advertised on the Twitter feed of two high profile medical tweeters and their retweets.SettingCommunity of NHS workers who accessed this social media.Participants54 healthcare workers, including doctors, nurses and physiotherapists, accessed the website and left a ‘story’.ResultsStories ranged from 1 word to 10 min in length. Thematic analysis identified common themes, with a central aspect being the experience and psychological consequence of trauma. Specific themes were: (1) the shock of the virus, (2) staff sacrifice and dedication, (3) collateral damage ranging from personal health concerns to the long-term impact on, and care of, discharged patients and (4) a hierarchy of power and inequality within the healthcare system.ConclusionsCOVID-19 confidential gave an outlet for unprompted and uncensored stories of healthcare workers in the context of COVID-19. In addition to personal experiences of trauma, there were perceptions that many operational difficulties stemmed from inequalities of power between management and front-line workers. Learning from these experiences will reduce staff distress and improve patient care in the face of further waves of the pandemic.

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