BACKGROUND MATERIAL

The following papers, articles and books provide further background on immigration issues that reflect the concerns and objectives of the Centre for Immigration Policy Reform.
 
Where the document in question is available in electronic form, we have provided a link where it can be downloaded.

• An examination of a range immigration issues is provided in Canada’s Immigration Policy: the Need for Major Reform, published by the Fraser Institute PDF
• An estimate of the cost to Canadian taxpayers of current immigration policy as well as recommendations for improving the selection of immigrants PDF
• Articles on a number of specific immigration programs and related issues dealt with in more detail than in other documents:
• Temporary foreign workers PDF
• Live-in caregivers PDF
• No Need To Apologize PDF
• Ethno-politics PDF
• Family class immigration PDF
• Citizenship issues PDF
• Immigrants want less immigration PDF
• An assessment of whether immigration should be based on economic and demographic considerations PDF
• Papers delivered at a Fraser Institute conference on the connections between immigration and security PDF
• Article on the tightening of the U.S.-Canada border and its relationship to Canadian immigration and refugee policies PDF
• Papers delivered at a Fraser Institute conference on immigration and integration PDF
• Submission to the Bouchard-Taylor Commission of Quebec on reasonable accommodation PDF
• An assessment of the shortcomings of the Canadian refugee determination system and related threats from terrorism PDF
• A comparison of the Canadian refugee determination system with those of the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia PDF
• A historical perspective of the goals of Canada’s immigration policy PDF
• C.D. Howe Institute study of the relationship between immigration and population aging. Click here.
• James Bissett's analysis of current and still-needed reforms to Canada's refugee and immigration system published by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy PDF 

Recommended books and studies on immigration and refugee policy that are available only in hard copy:  

Economic and Social Impacts of Immigration, Economic Council of Canada, 1991

Population, Technology and Resources, Science Council of Canada Report #25, 1976
 
Daniel Stoffman, Who Gets In: What’s Wrong with Canada’s Immigration Program - and How to Fix It (Macfarlane Walter and Ross, 2002)
 
Diane Francis, Immigration: The Economic Case (Key Porter Books, 2002)
 
Charles M. Campbell, Betrayal and Deceit: The Politics of Canadian Immigration (Jasmine Books, 2000)

Martin Loney,The Pursuit of Division: Race, Gender and Preferential Hiring in Canada, Chapter 13, “Immigrants and Refugees” (McGill-Queen’s University  Press, 1998)