Skills to Build the Nation: Immigrant Labour Market and Canadian Nationalism
Drawing attention to the simultaneous recruitment of skilled immigrants (as crucial for national prosperity), their devaluation (for lack of commensurate skills), and subsequent policy and programmatic affirmation of local Canadian experience as marker of integration/employability – triple dynamics that unfolded between the liberalization in 1962 and the last major immigration policy overhaul in 2016 – […]
