Many immigrants from the Far East, the Middle East and Latin America who are drawn to Quebec by economic opportunities live here for years without finding work appropriate to their level of education and skills, a new report says.
Immigrants from those regions have run into significant problems on the job market since 1997, a report released yesterday by Quebec’s Department of Immigration and Cultural Communities says.
During at least their first five years after arrival, these immigrants have lagged substantially behind any of the province’s other immigrant groups at landing a job in line with their training, the study indicates.
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1 roach // Mar 28, 2006 at 7:28 pm
This story is no surprise to visible minorities that live in Quebec. It is extremely clear that the province has a racist climate that disallows career advancement for visible minorities. Individuals, politicians, researchers and officers of private and public organizations in Quebec choose to purposely fixate on language-based injustices of past generations in order to disallow the address of current racial inequalities that they commit and maintain by denying its very existence. When we control for education, experience and skill level, there is no doubt that visible minorities cannot achieve employment equity with their white colleagues. The majority of Quebecois will proudly announce that racism does not exist in Quebec. The same people will however scream from rooftops that there is a 21st century English-language conspiracy to eradicate the French-language from Quebec.
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