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The economic integration of immigrants in Metropolitan Vancouver

The purpose of this report is to provide basic knowledge about the economic outcomes of immigrants to metropolitan Vancouver based on characteristics such as language ability, educational attainment, year of arrival, gender, age, country of origin and admission class. It begins with a brief summary of Canadian immigration processes and then provides a statistical overview of metropolitan immigration trends, drawing on the census and administrative data collected by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Differences between Vancouver and the other major immigrant settlement centres--Toronto and Montreal--are highlighted. It discusses in general terms, the system of immigrant integration in Vancouver, which is largely under provincial jurisdiction and assigns an important role to not-for-profit organizations. The services offered to immigrants differ according to their class of admission; this is an important point to remember when analyzing economic outcomes. The report concludes by summarizing the broad picture of immigrants in the Vancouver economy.--Document.

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