Windsor, Ontario, well placed to deal with Canadian immigration: study

The soon-to-be-published report by Dr Jane Ku, an associate professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Windsor, examines Canadian immigration, integration and inclusion in Ontario cities with a large section devoted to Windsor.

A study by Statistics Canada released earlier this week revealed that visible minorities in Canada will greatly increase by 2031, and a third of Windsor's population - many of them immigrants - could be made up of visible minorities.

The change in demographics will create benefits and challenges, for example, in integrating immigrants into the labour market.

Windsor was flooded with refugee claimants, mostly of Mexican but some of Haitian descent, in the fall of 2007 after a crackdown on illegal immigrants in America, and as a result the city formed an integration partnership network of agencies involved in the refugee and immigration process.

"The city was very active in spearheading this," said Ku.

"I think the fact that the city was kind of the leader in getting this integration partnership going, it's really ahead of the other cities in some ways.”

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