“Migrant worker” define as the workers who migrate from one country to another in search of better jobs. “Migrant care worker” define as the workers who assist and provide personal aids to elder, children, and disable person as domestic or live-in-caregiver. Over the past years, there is an increase in the number migrant care workers across Canada. Due to increase in older people, single family, child, and women in work industries Canada needs care workers to assist these people. Canada has different strategies and programs that allow care workers to enter Canada as a temporary worker. However, care workers assist elder and children, providing long term and family based care.
In this inquiry, I will be focusing on Philippine care workers and
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“Agencies vary job requirements on the basis of employer and employee requirements (Pierrette, 2007)”. Agencies take care of their client requirements and provide jobs only to educate and well knowledge care worker. Some employer hires a care worker on the basis of race, class, and status (Pierrette, 2007). The paid labour force, single living parents, divorced persons, and distance in family relations, increase the demand for home care workers. Today, families are no longer living together and have no time to take care of their older adults. This creates the opportunity for migrant domestic worker to come into the rich country for economic support. “Since aging-in-place is the preferred choice for many older adults, employing in-home caregivers to look after them is an emerging practice in Canada (Chowdhury et al. 2012)”. The demand for Filipino female workers increased in domestic worker and health departments. “The Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP), established by Citizenship and Immigration Canada, allows Canadians to employ qualified foreign workers in their private residence, for care of children, the elderly, the sick and persons with disabilities (Chowdhury et al. …show more content…
As, “Canada nursing home has become increasingly dependent on immigrant health care aides to assist elder, children, and disable people (Novek, 2013)”. “Chinese ethnic immigrant migrate to new countries reflect the breaking of Chinese culture and norms (Lan, 2002)”. Chinese worker CCAC25 and CCAC32 came from China and both are female. It shows that most women get into the job in PHC from both countries. Chinese workers migrate to Canada due to the population problem at back home and more competition in certain kinds of jobs. Worker CCAC25 came to Canada under the sponsorship of her husband. As, Filipino workers migrate due to financial stress and low wage jobs in their country. In comparison of Filipino’s care worker, the Chinese worker CCAC25 held secretory job and CCAC32 was nursing teacher at back home. All three Filipinos, two Chinese workers lack the benefits and insurance in the nursing employment
We have all been in a situation where we have immigrated to a new country for different reasons regarding, better future, or education. In the book Jade of Peony, Wayson Choy describes a struggle of a Chinese family as they settle in Canada, with their new generation of kids born here, the family struggles to keep their children tied to their Chinese customs and traditions as they fit in this new country. The Chinese culture needs to be more open minded as it limits the future generation’s potential. Chinese culture limitations are seen through the relationship expectations, education, gender roles and jobs.
In order to understand the need for TFWs, it is important to determine just where the workers are being placed and what roles they are filling. A total of 202,510 temporary foreign worker positions existed in 2012, up by about 50,000 from the previous year (Economic and Social Development Canada, 2013). Of those workers, nearly 100,000, or half of th...
Stone, R.I & Wiener, J. M. (2001). Who Will Care For Us? Addressing the Long-Term Care Workforce Crisis. The Urban Institute.
The author is a Canadian citizen with Chinese roots. To find a better living condition her grandfather abandoned his family, his country and ancestry and moved to Canada. Despite the inhospitable attitude of Canada towards the immigrants at those days, people from various parts of the world endured the difficult times with determination seeing the ray of hope at the other end. However, this perseverance presented the citizenship status for the progeny and a chance to live in the great land of Canada. Chong reinforces, “I belong to a community of values” (Chong, D. 2015. p. 5). Today, Canadian citizenship is valued worldwide and is a coveted title, because the people around the globe views Canadians as sophisticated and amiable.
Employment discrimination includes unequal treatment in employment decisions, opportunities, hiring and firing, compensation, promotion done by the supervisor and management on the basis of nurses’ race, origin, color, religion and language (Walani, 2015). In some cases even the patients refuge to be treated from a nurse with certain ethnic or national background. In Primeau’s study (2014), one IEN reports that a patient denied her care and said, “I don’t want to be treated by a terrorist”. Moreover, immigrant nurses are often employed in less desirable areas, lower positions and are excluded from the opportunities which could promote them easily to higher positions ((Li, 2014). Discrimination is not only unethical but also an illegal practice at any workplace. However, sometimes the IENs themselves acknowledge that they have less confidence and take inequality for granted. So, they do not report some cases of discrimination. Moreover, even the colleagues, patients and families treat the IENs with aggression, resentment, less trust and uncooperative manner (College of Nurses of Ontario [CNO], 2007). Sometimes, the coworkers intentionally misunderstand and underestimate the IENs’ education and skills and bully them (Kingma, 2007). A study by Hagey shows that immigrant black nurses also face racial discrimination in nursing employment in Canada (2001).
Social interactions between immigrant newcomers and the community hinge upon the ethnic racial and socioeconomic characteristics of elderly immigrants and the society’s ethnic-racial and class structure. Without a comprehensive policy, elderly immigrant integration shall be a far-reaching goal in the Canada. One of the most fundamental conclusions we can draw from is that elderly immigrants sustain best in socially and politically conducive environments that allow them to practice their values and beliefs or change their social and cultural traditions at their pace, while learning and adapting to important community practices more quickly. Doing so, in turn, allows elderly immigrants to build up their confidence and sense of belonging gradually but profoundly. Cultural differences and practical problems such as language barriers and illiteracy make it rather difficult for these groups to reach health promotion and other social services. A transition is needed towards culturally sensitive services to overcome the obstacles to making convenient for elderly immigrants to assimilate in the society. I propose Culture Sensitive Senior Immigrant Integration Policy (CSSIIP) an integrated enabling services policy in which ethnic culturally competent community workers and the other community elders act as liaisons between immigrant elderly and local social welfare and health promotion services. Similarly, an official Canadian policy of multiculturalism buttresses the cohesion and the sense of community while both the concepts are of concern to most of the immigrant people. Integration is not necessarily a smooth process; it requires uncomfortable adjustments among immigrants and the society in which they
Another area of significant concern, as identified by Guida (2004), is the deskilling of qualified, educated immigrant women who are required to be re-certified under Ontario’s standards in order to find employment (p.142). Previously, when immigrant women entered Ontario they were not offered the opportunity to learn English because of discriminatory gendered policies. Husbands were seen as much more fit for the workforce and the wives as dependents, stripping them of the chance to learn English (Guida, 2004, p.143). Women who were once accountants, teachers or nurses in their home country are now forced to take up meager job positions because of inadequate language courses and a lack of childcare subsidies due to restricting policies (Guida, 2004, p.145).
Over time, the debate of childcare issue within the Canadian public policy context has been raging. Rise in the media attention of the social issue of childcare policy in Canada concentrates on the relationship and coordination among the federal, provincial, and territorial governments in addressing the social issue (Finkel, 20013). According to Lewis Steven of The Star Canada News Agency, childcare is one of the priorities the Canadian Federal Government need to consider when designing its social policies. According to Lewis (2013), the Canadian Federal Government needs to consider the safety net income as an important factor contributing to affordable childcare services in the country. In Canada, parents or members of extended family have the responsibility of providing childcare services without the consideration of family net income. However, outside the family, there are many childcare providers operating as private individuals or agencies. Such childcare providers operate as private businesses.
Canada has continuously served as a home to immigrants and refugees from decade to decade harbouring people from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The first set of immigrants to settle in the country came from Britain, the United States and from other nationalities mostly including immigrants from Europe who were either desperate to escape from religious or political turmoil or were simply attracted to Canada’s economic promise. Soon after the Canadian confederation in 1867, immigrants from Irish and Chinese backgrounds who occupied most of the country were used as workers and the demand for labourers to develop the country increased rapidly as more Chinese descents were imported to build the Canadian Pacific Railway. Although, Canada opened its doors to immigrants, but the country also intended to gain human resources for work in the farms, in the forests, factories and mines but not everyone was equally welcomed in Canada.
The Chinese immigrant experience has traveled through times of hardships, under the English man. They have struggled to keep themselves alive through racism, work, and acceptance. Although many have come to Canada for their lives’ and their children’s to be successful, and safe. It could not be just given until adversity gave them the life they hoped to one day life for. In the starting time of 1858, the Chinese community had started coming to different parts of Canada considering the push and pull factors that had led them here. Because of the lack of workers in the British Columbia region, the Chinese were able to receive jobs in gold mining. Most Chinese were told to build roads, clear areas, and construct highways, but were paid little because of racism. The Chinese today are considered one of the most successful races in Canada because of the push and pull factors that they had come across, the racism that declined them and the community of the Chinese at the present time.
Certain cultures that live at or below the poverty line prefer this type of assistance for their elderly family members because it allows them to have someone meet them at their home. This convenience is a big factor and provides the elderly with a way to fulfill their communal culture by living out their time at home among family, while still receiving any necessary assistance for health checks or IADL’s. This improves their quality of life by meeting their needs in a different way. These alternative methods to older adult care are more popular among minorities and cultural groups (Bookman & Kimbrel, 2011). Bookman and Kimbrel acknowledge the gap between financial status as well as culture and race, they stated, “...because elders are widely diverse by race and socioeconomic status, their families attach differing cultural meanings to care and have widely different resources with which to accomplish their care goals” (2011). Thus, creating the large gap seen in nursing home facilities. Specifically, cultures like the Chinese who maintain traditions like filial piety, in which the adult children must care for their elderly parent (Li & Buechel, 2007). This type of culture defines the line between those who view nursing homes as ideal and those who prefer a separate
Throughout the last three decades, increasing numbers of Asians have migrated to Canada from all over the Asian continent. Currently, 44% of the Vancouver area population is of Asian descent (Statistics Canada, 2001). Immigrants commonly occupy skilled job positions that the host nation is unable to fill with its own citizens, and thus they offer many advantages to their receiving country. In a nation with a declining birthrate, such as Canada, their contribution can play a major role on multiple levels. The immigrants themselves often enjoy a greater earning potential than they did in their native country, which can be advantageous for those who wish to send money back home to support their families.
Canada is a very big country where many immigrants want to achieve their goals and have a good life. According to government statistics (October 2013) population in Canada is 35,295,770 and is still increasing. Every year more people from every country in the world are moving to Canada to settle down, find new job, and start perfect life. It is very hard to behave like born and raised as Canadians for people from different countries, cultures and with different backgrounds. Canadian government is supporting newcomers trough many trainings and courses, but this is immigrants responsibility to be prepared for new circumstances, they have to do a lot of job themselves just to feel safe and secure in new place and life. Immigrants should considered few very important things before they will make their decision about changing place and life style. While they can be great specialist in their field, emigrants have to learn about Canadian culture, Canadian workplace rules, and what’s most important they have to adopt this knowledge to their new life.
Analytical framework The problem that highly skills immigrant faces when they come to Canada will be analyzed based on employment and unemployment rate after they come to Canada in their respective field of works which include immediate need of work, stringent credential assessment rules, language barrier and as well as discrimination as one of the factors by looking at the work of other scholars. Due to the limited scope of this research, the exclusion of other type of problems that immigrants faces such as emotional problems that parent faces which more likely to occur in settings of risk (e.g. poverty) and during periods of life transition and struggle,” finical problems such as finding housing, social problems such as access to services which the immigrants have a difficulty finding out type, range and quality of services
On the other hand, non-humanitarian migration –voluntary- is divided into labour market and family reunion. Overseas degree-qualified migrant professionals are the main actors in the skill program, whereas family members of the Australian citizens or permanent residents conforms the intake in family