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What do Sponsored Parents and Grandparents Contribute?

What do Sponsored Parents and Grandparents Contribute?. Madine VanderPlaat, PhD Saint Mary’s University Howard Ramos, PhD Dalhousie University. Why Focus on Parents and Grandparents?. Vulnerable population Potential for development of alternative discourse of “integration”.

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What do Sponsored Parents and Grandparents Contribute?

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  1. What do Sponsored Parents and Grandparents Contribute? Madine VanderPlaat, PhD Saint Mary’s University Howard Ramos, PhD Dalhousie University

  2. Why Focus on Parents and Grandparents? • Vulnerable population • Potential for development of alternative discourse of “integration”

  3. Why Under Researched? • “Family” as gendered social space • Privileging of economic measurements of integration outcomes • Focus on the individual as unit of analysis rather than the family

  4. Basis for Criticism • Increased pressure on health care system • Weak economic performance (low tax base) • Over reliance on government pensions • Economic pressure on sponsors • Reduction in level of diversity

  5. Assumed Benefits • Improved quality of psycho-social life for immigrant families • Increased access to financial resources • Increased childcare and household support • Increased capacity for development of social capital

  6. What do We Know?

  7. Methodology • Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada • Wave 1 – 6 months • Wave 2 - 2 years • Wave 3 - 4 years

  8. Sponsored Parents/Grandparents By Age

  9. Parents/Grandparents by Main Activity

  10. Next steps… • Account for sex, age, and occupation • Examine the role of chain migration • Look at contributions to families • Examine contributions to ethnic communities • Analyze usage of social welfare and health services • Develop family migration model

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