Stronger data collection is essential to understand how COVID-19 impacts immigrant communities across Canada.
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Howard Ramos
Howard Ramos is a political sociologist at Dalhousie University, Halifax, who investigates issues of social justice and equity. He is currently working on projects looking at Atlantic Canadian, secondary cities, integration of immigrants and refugees, hockey and multiculturalism, and the social implication of AI and new technology.
Visa Officers Largely Bias-Free: Author
In a country where over one in five people are immigrants and far more are children and relatives of immigrants, questions of who gets into…
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In the fall of 2015, in the heat of a federal election, the country was deeply moved by images of refugees fleeing the Syrian civil…
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Research Watch #10: Entrepreneurship for Survival
Canada’s immigration system recruits the overwhelming majority of its immigrants to the country through economic pathways. Still, many highly educated and skilled economic immigrants struggle…
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Myth Busting in Nova Scotia
With a rapidly aging population and low birth rate, Canada’s Atlantic provinces have turned full force towards immigration. Nova Scotia, for instance, has nearly doubled…
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