UNEMPLOYMENT AND MINORITY IMMIGRANTS IN CANADA

Abstract

This paper explores the labour‐market status and experience of racial minorities in Canada, and examines and criticises labour‐market policy which ignores the employment and socio‐economic disadvantage of this group. The main argument of this discussion is that racial minorities as a whole encounter racial discrimination in the Canadian labour market, and new racial minority immigrants face compounded obstacles. This is due to the lack of adequate policy initiatives to combat the racism they experience in the attempt to find suitable employment, and to labour‐market policies which exclude services to immigrants. Examples of such obstacles are evident in the Canadian Job Strategy to be discussed below.

Citation

Daenzer, P. (1991), "UNEMPLOYMENT AND MINORITY IMMIGRANTS IN CANADA", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 11 No. 1/2/3, pp. 29-50. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb013125