Immigration, Communities and the Economy

Mapping out a solution to Canada’s labour shortage

Luciara Nardon, Professor, International Business, Sprott School of Business, with her Carleton University co-researcher Amrita Hari from the Department of Women and Gender Studies. — Carleton University’s Luciara Nardon, co-director of the Centre for Research on Inclusion at Work at the Sprott School of Business, and Amrita Hari, director of Feminist Institute of Social Transformation in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

Last year, Canada announced plans to increase the number of immigrants to 500,000 per year by 2025. But no matter how well-educated, highly skilled and motivated an economic migrant or refugee might be, the transition from arriving in a new country to securing meaningful employment is rarely smooth.

Immigrant work integration is so complex a challenge that there is no easy or single solution, according to Sprott’s Luciara Nardon and Amrita Hari in Carleton’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, who have co-authored a book on the topic. Their research points to a collaborative solution that focuses longer-term transformation instead of short-range goals.

Learn more about Luciara’s and Amrita’s research and how they are addressing the challenge of immigrant work integration. Read the full story in the Carleton newsroom.