Immigrants, Immigration and Disability in Canada

dc.contributor.advisorReaume, Geoffrey
dc.contributor.advisorKlassen, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorAhmed, Saifuddin
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-23T16:08:15Z
dc.date.available2017-08-23T16:08:15Z
dc.date.issued2017-08-09
dc.descriptionMajor Research Paper (Master's), Critical Disability Studies, School of Health Policy and Management,Faculty of Health, York University
dc.description.abstractThis MRP focuses on the obstacles faced by immigrants with disabilities when they try to gain admission into Canada and during the struggle to settle and integrate for those who do gain admission. Some disabled immigrants are considered inadmissible because of what are defined as “excessive burdens” on state economic resources that impose costs on taxpayers and Canadian healthcare services. Further, individual immigrants and their families have traditional values and cultural norms that make it difficult to integrate into mainstream Canadian society, imposing further disability. This study provides a critical analysis of the ways in which Canada’s immigration policies have exploited and marginalized immigrants with disabilities in Canadian society. It shows that these exclusionary practices contradict Canada’s multiculturalism and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This MRP also investigates immigrant settlement issues related to education, work and social relations, and shows how immigrants are forced to rely on friends, co-workers and family ties in order to survive in Canadian society. In addition, it describes how Canada’s family reunification policies and legislation have historically imposed exclusion on immigrant families with members who have disabilities, and continue to do so. Overall, this MRP emphasizes how Canadian immigration policies continue to focus narrowly on economic factors and argues in favour of a new immigration policy regime based on human rights, equality rights and the ideal of global citizenship rights.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/33799
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsThe copyright for the paper content remains with the author.
dc.subjectimmigrantsen_US
dc.subjectimmigrationen_US
dc.subjectdisabilityen_US
dc.subjectpolicyen_US
dc.subjecthuman rightsen_US
dc.titleImmigrants, Immigration and Disability in Canadaen_US
dc.typeMajor Research Paper

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