Understanding Intergenerational Social Mobility: Filipino Youth in Canada » Institute for Research on Public Policy
2014/02/20 1 Comment
Good study on some of the challenges facing the Filipino Canadian community, and the anomaly that subsequent generations have poorer educational outcomes than their parents.
Given that Filipinos are one of Canada’s largest source of immigrants, the Government’s assiduous courting of the Filipino community in Canada, and that some of the points are applicable to other communities, worth reading. Most of the recommendations are reasonable and may also apply to other groups of new Canadians that are struggling.
Unlikely and unfortunate, however, that the Conservative government will reinstate the long-form census, despite the need for better information for both current and longer-term issues:
Kelly makes a number of recommendations, some of which also apply to other immigrant–background communities: intensify efforts to improve immigrants’ access to professions and credential recognition; recognize the importance of extended families in the success of the next generation; lessen precarity for those in the Live-in Caregiver Program by considering giving workers permanent residence upon arrival; and support role-modelling and mentoring, particularly to improve educational achievement among males. Finally, the author underlines the need to collect large-scale data by, among other things, reinstating the compulsory long-form census to accurately track intergenerational outcomes.
