Problematic Post-Landing Interprovincial Migration of the Immigrants in Canada: From 1980-83 through 1992-95

Kao-Lee Liaw and Lei Xu

Social and Economic Dimensions of an Aging Population Research Papers from McMaster University

Abstract: Based on the longitudinal Immigration Data Base, this research found that the post-landing interprovincial migration of newly landed immigrants led to a further concentration in Ontario and British Columbia. Underlying this pattern was the fact that each of these two provinces had a relatively strong economy, large immigrant communities, and a major international airport. This further concentration of relocating immigrants is problematic in the sense that it contributed to the weakening of the political powers of the economically weak provinces. With respect to immigration classes, the interprovincial net transfer was much stronger for those in the investor, entrepreneur, and refugee classes than for those in the family and assisted relative classes. The research also suggested that the deconcentration and widespread dispersal in the 1995-2000 interstate migration of the immigrants in the U.S. can not serve as a harbinger for a general reversal in the interprovincial migration of immigrants in Canada.

Keywords: post-landing migration; immigrants; Canada; immigration class (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J11 O15 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2007-05
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