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The drastic percent change in the amount of Permanent Residents approved in Canada, from the top 15 countries admitted, demonstrates that Canada has changed its immigration laws significantly these past years. The highest percentage increase since 2003 to 2012 in seen in Haiti with 187% increase, opposing places like Colombia and Pakistan which have shown a decrease of over -10% of residents accepted in Canada.
Iris Solorzano is an immigration consultant manager at Options Community Services in Surrey, which is a non-profit society and registered charity dedicated to helping immigrants achieve legal status in Canada. They support families and promote community health. Iris has guided families in the right direction in order to achieve permanent resident status in Canada. Although more people have been receiving permanent resident status as shown in this chart, "they have mostly come from countries where people have applied with skill workers applications rather then refugee claims", says Iris after I showed her my data set.
According to her "due to immigration law changes, more and more refugees have been denied permanent resident status in Canada". For example, it is clearly shown in this bar graph that countries such as Colombia has had less people being approved for permanent residence then people from the United States. Iris claims that "controversial immigration laws such as Bill C-31, have caused a great impact in the people who are accepted as permanent residents in Canada."
This datawrapper chart shows a significant percentage increase in people accepted a permanent residents; however, the countries where these people are coming from, considered refugee countries, has changes drastically.
A question that I cannot answer with my data is if in fact, more people are being granted resident status due to skill worker applications and not refugee claimants applications. In order to answer my question I would request an FOI to the canadian immigration offices which handle permanent resident applications.
Interviewee:
Iris Solorzano
Immigration consultant
Options Community Services
604.572.4060
Really great work Daniela! I can't wait to see the finish project. My one concern is with FOIing the information you need for your last question, what happens if it takes too long? Can you answer this question another way, maybe through another interview?
ReplyDeleteHey Daniela, your story is much more clear. If you have the information, it might be interesting to do a chart that shows the increase in skilled worker permanent residency status since 2003 compared to the number of refugees that have been granted permanent residency status. This would also reflect what the Options Community Services spokesperson argues.
ReplyDeleteHey Daniela!
ReplyDeleteThis is such an interesting story topic, and I certainly can see what your chart is illustrating. The significant changes in these numbers pertaining to immigrants in Canada is super pervasive. My only critique is very small. In the first paragraph it says "opposing places like Colombia and Pakistan which have shown a decrease of over -10% of residents accepted in Canada", which is only a little bit confusing because it says "decrease of 'over' -10%". Totally a small thing, but it is confusing to say "over" when it is actually a decrease. I had to read it twice maybe because I am a little slow but other than that your story sounds great!
Daniela,
ReplyDeleteThis is a very interesting topic. I am interested to see how the final product looks. My concern with the datawrapper chart is that it only shows the percent change in permanent residency status in Canada. While this does tell us something, it is still unclear as to how many permanent residencies were issued. Percent changes, I think, should be accompanied with the real numbers, but you can probably add that to the final story. Also, I'm not sure what the negative percent change means -- but I suspect there was a decrease in permanent residency status for those countries.
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ReplyDeleteThis is really detailed update. Your graphs are easy to read and you have clearly spent a lot of time researching your topic. Your interview subject seems really knowledgeable about your topic.
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