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| Title | Institutional change and emerging cohorts of the 'new' immigrant second generation: Implications for the integration of racial minorities in Canada |
| CitationType | Electronic Resource |
| Category | Conference Paper |
| Authors | Reitz, J.G. & Somerville, K |
| Year | 2004 |
| Month | Feb |
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| Retrieved Date | March 22, 2004 |
| Retrieved From | University of Toronto, Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies |
| Online File Link | http://www.utoronto.ca/ethnicstudies/reitzsomerville.pdf |
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| Abstract | Over the past few decades, institutional change has dramatically altered the reception of new immigrants in Canada, creating new obstacles to their employment and reducing their economic success. But what effect – if any – does institutional change have on the second-generation children of immigrants? Second generation experiences have been examined as indicators of the long-term potential for racial minority integration into Canadian society. However, realistic analysis of minority integration requires consideration of whether institutional change – related to education, labour market, government policies, and globalization – alters the experiences of successive second generation cohorts, as it has for immigrants. This paper proposes an institutional model for minority integration which locates immigrant generational succession as embedded within a changing institutional structure. Current research findings on early family life, educational attainment, and labour market successes of the second generation in Canada are interpreted in light of this model. The interplay between generational succession and effects of institutional change raises significant issues for future research. |
| Notes | Revision of paper presented at a workshop on “The immigrant second generation in North America and Europe” held at Bellagio, Italy, June 18-23, 2003. Earlier draft, "The new immigrant second generation and native-born racial minorities in Canada: Generational succession and institutional change," accessed from: http://www.utoronto.ca/ethnicstudies/second.generation.pdf |
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