This paper explores the correlates of career satisfaction among Canadian managers, professionals and executives, specifically the career satisfaction experience of both visible minority and non-visible minority immigrants. Survey data collected from over 13,000 managers, professionals and executives in 43 Canadian organizations were analysed using the ordinary least squares multiple regression ...

Linked administrative data indicate that the distributions of mental health diagnoses are different for recent Chinese immigrants in British Columbia compared to a matched group reflecting the general population, as recorded in payments to general practitioners and psychiatrists between 1992 and 2001. Chinese immigrants were much less likely to have consultations for the mental disorders that w...

Using a calibrated general equilibrium overlapping generations model, which explicitly accounts for di erences between immigrants and natives, this paper investigates if an immigration policy reform alone could resolve the scal problems associated with the ageing of the baby boom generation. Such policies are found to exist and are characterized by increased in ow of working-age highand medium-...

The Effect of Linguistic Proximity on the Occupational Assimilation of Immigrant Men in Canada* This paper contributes to the analysis of the integration of immigrants in the Canadian labour market by focusing in two relatively new dimensions. We combine the large samples of the restricted version of the Canadian Census (1991-2006) with both a new measure of linguistic proximity of the immigran...

An experiment examined the effects of imagining contact with an illegal immigrant on attitudes towards illegal immigrants and subsequent effects of that attitude change on feelings about other groups (secondary transfer). Compared to a condition in which participants imagined negative contact with an illegal immigrant, participants who imagined positive contact reported more positive attitudes ...

A growing body of literature describes what has come to be know as the ‘healthy migrant’ phenomenon—the fact that immigrants to the United States and Western European countries are often healthier than native-born residents in their new countries of residence. Over time many immigrants lose this health advantage for reasons that are not fully understood. The purpose of this paper is to summariz...

The share of North African immigrants in Europe is growing continuously. In this review, we aimed to systematically analyse and describe the literature on weight status and physical activity in North African adults, both in their home country and after immigration to Europe. Existing data on North African residents and on North African immigrants in Europe were analysed by a systematic search o...

This study identifies undocumented immigrants' obstacles to realizing their health care rights in France. The ethnographic fieldwork informing this study was carried out in Paris from March 2007 to July 2008. Research findings are based on (1) participant observation carried out in two grassroots health associations catering to undocumented immigrants in Paris (one providing legal and medical a...

BACKGROUND One of the consequences of migration is cultural diversity in various communities. This has created challenges for healthcare systems. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is to explore the health care staffs' experience of caring for Immigrants in Mashhad- Iran. SETTING This study is done in Tollab area (wherein most immigrants live) of Mashhad. Clinics and hospitals that immigrants...

The full impact of immigration on American society is obscured in policy and academic analyses that focus on the short-term problems of immigrant adjustment. With a longer-term perspective, which includes the socioeconomic roles of the children of immigrants, immigration appears as one of the defining characteristics of twentieth-century America. Major waves of immigration create population div...