What do sponsored parents and grandparents contribute?
Authors: Madine VanderPlaat, Howard Ramos, and Yoko Yoshida
Overview
Abstract (English)
Canada increasingly favours immigration policies based on human capital theory and economic outcomes. Consequently, while immigration is on the increase there is a downward trend in the number of “family class” entrants admitted to the country. The group most seriously affected is sponsored parents and/or grandparents who are also the most vulnerable to criticisms against family class immigration. The discussion is centered on the perceived lack of potential economic contributions of these immigrants. Such a focus, however, overlooks the feminized nature of this type of immigration and the many non-economic contributions these immigrants make. Using multinomial regression modeling of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada data, we examine economic and non-economic contributions of sponsored parent and/or grandparent immigrants and compare them to immigrants of similar age migrating under other categories of immigration. We find that sponsored parents and/or grandparents make significant economic contributions to Canadian society as well as other non-economic ones that are often overlooked. We also find that their contributions increase over time and are heavily gendered, with female sponsored parents and/or grandparents making more non-economic contributions than their male counterparts or other immigrants of similar age migrating under other categories of immigration.
Abstract (French)
Le Canada favorise de plus en plus les politiques d’immigration qui sont fondées sur la théorie du capital humain et sur ses retombées économiques. Par conséquent, alors que cette immigration est à la hausse, il y a néanmoins une tendance à la baisse du nombre d’entrées obtenues à partir du <
Details
Type | Journal article |
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Author | Madine VanderPlaat, Howard Ramos, and Yoko Yoshida |
Publication Year | 2012 |
Title | What do sponsored parents and grandparents contribute? |
Volume | 44 |
Journal Name | Canadian Ethnic Studies / Études ethniques au Canada |
Number | 3 |
Pages | 79-96 |
Publication Language | English |
- Madine VanderPlaat
- Madine VanderPlaat, Howard Ramos, and Yoko Yoshida
- What do sponsored parents and grandparents contribute?
- Canadian Ethnic Studies / Études ethniques au Canada
- 44
- 2012
- 3
- 79-96