The Changing Face of Chinese Immigrants in Canada

Shibao Guo () and Don DeVoretz
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Shibao Guo: University of Calgary

No 3018, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper analyzes the changing characteristics of Chinese immigrants to Canada between 1980 and 2001. It reveals that recent Chinese immigrants to Canada constitute a substantially different group from those of former years. They are no longer a homogeneous group from the rural areas of Guangdong Province of Mainland China, but in fact citizens of 132 countries, speaking 100 different languages and dialects. This study also reveals significant differences among Chinese subgroups. Immigrants from Hong Kong and Taiwan shared more commonalities than with those from Mainland China. Given Canada’s time dependent immigration selection procedures, these differences are rationalized on the basis of a proposed single and double selection theory.

Keywords: Chinese immigration; triangle theory; integration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J60 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2007-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cna and nep-mig
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Published - published in: Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2006, 7 (4), 425-447

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