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Design and validation of a survey instrument to assess the attraction, retention, and integration of official language minority immigrants in Canada
No full textThe goal of this project was to design, implement and analyze a pilot survey of recent Official Language Minority Immigrants in Canada, with the ultimate aim of providing a valid and reliable survey instrument that can be used to enhance understanding of the settlement and integration experiences of Official Language Minority Immigrants (OLMIs) in Canada, and the factors that drive their attraction, retention, and integration. To this end, a pilot survey was designed and administered to 150 recent Official Language Minority Immigrants across the country using computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI).
Official Language Minority Immigrants were identified and their contact information obtained through Landing Data provided by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. We define Official Language Minority Immigrants as immigrants in Quebec whose preferred official language is English and immigrants in the Rest of Canada whose preferred official language is French. In the current case, this was based on a combination of official language ability at landing and language chosen for the landing interview.
The survey was designed to include the following key modules, some of which are specific to Official Language Minority Immigrants and some of which apply to immigrants in general:
Attraction, retention, and mobility factors that may influence Official Language Minority Immigrants
Availability, access to, and satisfaction with French institutions, services, and activities in communities outside of Quebec, and with English institutions, services, and activities in communities in Quebec
Language practices and retention
Social and cultural integration
Economic integration
Well-being
Demographics
As a pilot with a small sample size, the current survey was intended to develop and test the survey instrument, rather than provide findings on Official Language Minority Immigrants. That is, the results are not for interpretation but instead are for illustrative purposes in terms of the usefulness of the survey instrument. Thus, for example, we aimed for approximately equal numbers of participants in each region of the Rest of Canada (British Columbia, Prairies, Ontario, Atlantic), though the population of OLMIs in these regions differs. We combined these regions for the Rest of Canada (ROC) without weighting in order to examine the utility of the survey instrument, rather than for the purpose of interpretation.
The pilot survey demonstrates the feasibility of the procedure utilized, and analyses of the responses indicate that the instrument was very effective in eliciting information on each of the key topics of interest. The analyses also provide information on questions and response options that require adjustment, and the type of adjustments that should be made. In order to test out as many questions as possible, the survey instrument used in the pilot was quite long, averaging just over 32 minutes to complete. The analyses indicate questions that can be combined or removed in order to reduce the length of the survey without compromising the breadth of topics addressed.
Based on these findings, we recommend that a full-scale survey be launched using a revised version of the pilot survey instrument. Such a survey will go a long way to filling major gaps in our knowledge of the settlement and integration experiences of Official Language Minority Immigrants, and contribute to the Immigration pillar of the Roadmap for Canada’s Official Languages 2013-2018 (Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, 2013). This fits with the Senate Committee on Official Languages’ recommendation that a survey be conducted “on French-speaking immigrants outside Quebec and on English-speaking immigrants in Quebec so that official language minority communities can be better equipped to deal with the immigration challenges they will be facing over the coming years” (2014, p. vii). It will also provide an evidence base to support the evaluation of the Support for Official Language Minority Communities program to be conducted by Citizenship and Immigration Canada starting in the fall of 2015.
Specifically, results will provide an evidence base for:
Better understanding the settlement needs of Official Language Minority Immigrants
Providing information on what aspects of Official Language Minority Immigrant settlement need to be improved
Identifying gaps in services for Official Language Minority Immigrants
Designing new settlement resources and services for Official Language Minority Immigrants
Identifying potential pre- and post-arrival services and information that will improve the settlement and integration outcomes of Official Language Minority Immigrants
Developing effective initiatives for recruiting new Official Language Minority Immigrants and informing them of the services available to them
Developing strategies for contributing to the vitality of Official Language Minority Communities through immigratio
The role of the media in the dehumanization of refugees
No full textPresented at the Pathways to Prosperity National Conference - Shaping Immigration to Canada: Learning from the Past and a Vision for the Future, 2018, Ottawa, Ontario. In the second workshop, "Public Perceptions of Refugees: Contexts and Response": While Canada’s overall commitment to resettling refugees is admirable, there are those within Canadian society who view such arrivals with apprehension. When politicians, pundits, media, and the broader public express disparaging views or opinions about refugees, the result, whether intentional or not, is the reinforcing of negative prejudices and stereotypes. The goal of this session is to assess the opinions and views of the broader public and media towards refugees while examining the impact that such perspectives may have on refugees in Canada. (From original website
The behavioural consequences of the automatic dehumanization of refugees
No full textPresented at the Pathways to Prosperity National Conference - Shaping Immigration to Canada: Learning from the Past and a Vision for the Future, 2018, Ottawa, Ontario. In the second workshop, "Public Perceptions of Refugees: Contexts and Response": While Canada’s overall commitment to resettling refugees is admirable, there are those within Canadian society who view such arrivals with apprehension. When politicians, pundits, media, and the broader public express disparaging views or opinions about refugees, the result, whether intentional or not, is the reinforcing of negative prejudices and stereotypes. The goal of this session is to assess the opinions and views of the broader public and media towards refugees while examining the impact that such perspectives may have on refugees in Canada. (From original website
Uncertainty, threat, and the role of the media in promoting the dehumanization of immigrants and refugees
No full textImmigration policies and the treatment of immigrants and refugees are contentious issues involving uncertainty and unease. The media may take advantage of this uncertainty to create a crisis mentality in which immigrants and refugees are portrayed as “enemies at the gate” who are attempting to invade Western nations. Although it has been suggested that such depictions promote the dehumanization of immigrants and refugees, there has been little direct evidence for this claim. Our program of research addresses this gap by examining the effects of common media portrayals of immigrants and refugees on dehumanization and its consequences. These portrayals include depictions that suggest that immigrants spread infectious diseases, that refugee claimants are often bogus, and that terrorists may gain entry to western nations disguised as refugees. We conclude by discussing the implications of the findings for understanding how uncertainty may lead to dehumanization, and for establishing government policies and practices that counteract such effects.Peer reviewedFinal article publishe
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Toward an understanding of immigration as a defining feature of the 21st century
No full textThe chapter, "Toward an understanding of immigration as a defining feature of the 21st century" was written by the listed authors including Stelian Medianu (Douglas College Faculty). Why do we protest? What compels us to participate in crowd violence? Can gender discrimination in the workplace be explained in psychological terms?
From terrorist attacks to political uprisings, the social problems that have shaped the beginning of the new millenium can be explained using the theories and application of social psychology. "Social Psychology of Social Problems" does just that, with top international experts examining real-life issues. The book takes the view that if a problem and its origins can be understood, then perhaps it can be prevented from happening again.
"Social Psychology of Social Problems" is required reading for students and practitioners of psychology, social policy and international relations. Provocative and challenging, it will be an essential resource for those who are seeking a deeper understanding of how social psychology can explain our complex world.Published
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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