Canada’s Changing Immigration Landscape: New National Research Series Launches
Canada’s Changing Immigration Landscape offers national data briefs, policy briefs, and in-depth reports that reveal how policies are evolving.
The Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) has unveiled a new long-term project: Canada’s Changing Immigration Landscape (CCIL). The new series is a collaboration with Mireille Paquet, Director of the Institute for Research on Migration and Society (IRMS) at Concordia University, Irene Bloemraad, Co-director of the Centre for Migration Studies (CMS) at the University of British Columbia and Charles Breton, Executive Director of the Centre of Excellence on the Canadian Federation at the IRPP.
This series comes at a time when Canada’s immigration landscape is shifting rapidly. Canada’s Changing Immigration Landscape offers national data briefs, policy briefs, and in-depth reports that reveal how policies are evolving and what those changes mean for newcomers and communities, bridging research and public debate along the way.
To this end, CCIL launches with two briefs that highlight critical shifts in Canada’s immigration system:
Temporary Residence in Canada: A Patchwork of Rules by Mylène Coderre, Capucine Coustere and Marie-Jeanne Blain (IRMS)
Charts the fragmented and constantly changing rules facing the growing population of temporary residents, and the consequences of for work opportunities, family reunification, and pathways to permanent settlement.
From Temporary to Permanent Residency: Recent Trends in Canada’s Two-Step Immigration Selection by Feng Hou (Statistics Canada)
Reveals how nearly half of newcomers gaining permanent status now begin as temporary residents, with provinces playing an increasingly central role in shaping economic immigration pathways.
Paquet sees CCIL as both a resource and an invitation to think about immigration’s future.
“Canada has a unique opportunity for genuine dialogue about the future of our immigration program. CCIL is our contribution to this national conversation. At a time where autoritative information is hard to come by, we created an open access, accessible, scientifically rigorous and policy-oriented paper series that features Canada’s leading immigration researchers.”
Stay tuned on the Canada’s Changing Immigration Landscape site for updates.