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Jack Jedwab
McGill Institute for the Study of Canada
Jack Jedwab is Executive Director of the Association for Canadian Studies. From 1994 to 1998 he served as Executive Director of the Quebec Region of the Canadian Jewish Congress. He holds a doctoral degree in Quebec history from Concordia University and currently teaches a course entitled Canada’s Official Language Minorities: History and Demography at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.
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February 2002
Table of Contents
II. Canada’s Official Language and Immigration policies
B. Canada’s Immigration Policy
C. Official Languages and Immigration: Policy Intersections
D. Federal-Provincial Immigration Agreements
1. Canada and Quebec: Immigration Agreements
2. Other Immigration Agreements
A. Immigrants and the Demography of Official Language Communities
1. Knowledge of Official Languages among Immigrants
2. First Official Language Spoken/Initial Contact
3. Mother Tongue
4. Settlement Patterns outside Quebec
5. RootednessB. Francophone Immigration: Attraction and Recruitment
1. Source Countries
2. Canada and the United States
3. Categories of Immigrants1. Canada
2. Quebec
3. Francophone Official Language Minority Communities1. Employment and Income
2. Language Transfers
3. Interprovincial Migration
IV. Quebec Anglophones: Immigration and Vitality
1. Knowledge of Official Languages
2. Mother Tongue/First Official Language Spoken/Rootedness
3. Settlement Pattern: Montreal and the Rest of Quebec
4. Categories of Immigrants
5. Origins1. Employment and Income
2. Language Transfers
3. Interprovincial Migration
4. Role of the Community in Immigrant Integration and Retention
Tables
- Knowledge of official languages among immigrants upon arrival in Canada, 1991-1995 and 1996-2000
- Total immigration to Canada by knowledge of official languages upon arrival, to 1996
- Immigrants’ knowledge of official languages upon arrival in selected provinces, 1996-1999
- Knowledge of French only among immigrants upon arrival in selected provinces, to 1996
- Knowledge of English and French among immigrants upon arrival in selected provinces, to 1996
- Total number (in thousands) of immigrants in Canada by first official language spoken upon arrival, to 1996
- Immigration by mother tongue (French) for Canada and selected provinces, to 1996
- Place of birth of mother-tongue Francophones in provinces of Canada, 1996
- Place of birth of mother-tongue Francophones in major Canadian cities, 1996
- Number of immigrants by country/continent of origin in Canada, Quebec, Ontario, and the other provinces combined, 1996
- Immigration from North Africa, France and Haiti to the United States and Canada (Quebec and the rest of Canada), 1991-1996
- Language spoken at home for the foreign-born population of the United States five years old and over, 1980 and 1990
- Immigrants who know French only, by category of immigrants and share of total immigration, 1996-2000
- Immigrants who declare knowledge of French only and of English and French in Canada, by category of immigrants and share of total immigration, 2000
- Services refused in French
- Socio-economic conditions of immigrant taxfilers 18 and over upon arrival, by years since admission and knowledge of official languages, Canada, 1995
- Percentage of immigrant taxfilers 18 and over upon arrival who reported receiving Unemployment Insurance benefits, by years since admission and knowledge of official languages, 1995
- Average employment earnings of immigrant taxfilers 18 and over upon arrival, by years since admission and knowledge of official languages, 1995
- Immigrants with French mother tongue and French as a home language in selected provinces, to 1996
- Language transfers of Francophone immigrants, by region of origin
- Interprovincial mobility of immigrants, by knowledge of official languages and province immigrants landed, 1980-1995
- Number of immigrants by knowledge of official languages, Quebec, to 1996
- Knowledge of English only and English and French among immigrants upon arrival in Quebec, 1991-1995 and 1996-2000
- Number and percentage of immigrants with English as their first official language spoken, Quebec, to 1996
- English speakers by first official language spoken and mother tongue, Quebec, 1996
- Settlement pattern of immigrants of English mother tongue in Quebec, Montreal, and the rest of Quebec, to 1996
- Category of immigrants by knowledge of official languages, Quebec, 1996-2000
- Persons declaring visible minority membership and English mother tongue, Quebec, 1996
- Did the extent and quality of French language instruction that you received prepare you to be successful in Quebec?
- Transfers of English-mother-tongue immigrants to French spoken at home, to 1996
- Main reasons identified by immigrant and non-immigrant English Quebecers in a potential decision to move to another province
- Immigrants’ knowledge of official languages upon arrival in selected provinces, 1996-1999
