Canada Social Integration

Refugees and Social Integration in Canada

Canada’s newcomers are central to the development of the concept of social integration. Refugees and immigrants find themselves in a frustrated situation where there are different barriers set out in Canadian society that restrict them from being fully integrated. Social integration requires the full and equal participation in Canadian society. This paper is an attempt to lay out the concept of social integration and how this concept can be used to solve the different problems that refugees face when settling in Canada by offering new perspectives and improve the situation of refugee settlement.

Social integration involves the basic ideas of acceptance and belonging. All this happens when the country of destination for refugees recognizes them as being part of the society. For refugees, social integration would be portrayed by achieving full and equal participation in the economic, social, cultural and political dimensions of life in their new country. In a simple but useful sense, therefore, “social integration for refugees and immigrants can be seen as the breaking down of barriers that lead to exclusion in all these areas.” (Richmond, 2003). The definition of social integration remains unstable as it is shaped by ideological and political principles.

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These refugees have gone through many barriers in the settlement process. If the policies are more flexible for the immigrant status of a worker compared to the ones of a refugee, it means that Canada is not considering how this is seen as discrimination. Even for the case of citizenship, if Canada can accept to be united and also diverse without relying on institutions to choose social values then this collectively look at fighting discrimination against refugees and other