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- Title: Sharing the Wealth, Spreading the "Burden"? the Settlement of Kosovar Refugees in Smaller British Columbia Cities.
- Author : Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 254 KB
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ABSTRACT/RESUME Since World War II, immigration to Canada has predominantly been an urban phenomenon. In the 1990s, 73 percent of all newcomers to Canada settled within three Census Metropolitan Areas: Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. The federal government is interested in spreading this immigrant population around to include smaller cities, potentially through policies of dispersed settlement, or regionalization. The research presented here examines an experiment in which one group of government-assisted refugees were settled in small- and medium-sized cities in British Columbia. In May 1999, 905 Kosovar refugees arrived in British Columbia as part of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) humanitarian evacuation from camps in Macedonia. The settlement of the Kosovars is an exceptional case in the context of British Columbia, as it was the first time a large number of government-assisted refugees had been "dispersed" to cities outside the Lower Mainland. Drawing on forty-two individual interviews and seven focus groups conducted between May 2002 and March 2003, this research analyzes the significance and characteristics of location in the settlement of refugees in large and smaller cities in British Columbia. The findings highlight the importance of employment prospects and the presence of family as major factors influencing the success of settlement.
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