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Designed to Stay: Canadian-Educated International Students as Future Permanent Residents
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SSHRC Awarded IDG 2017: Despite Canada's policies for encouraging immigration of the highly educated, and despite international students being described as 'designed to stay', we know little about how, when, or whether international students decide to stay in Canada. We know little about challenges they will face. We also do not fully understand the types of support that can help international students successfully navigate the immigration process to become permanent residents. This study uses mixed qualitative and quantitative methods to examine international students studying at Canadian universities, and the paths taken as they decide to become permanent residents (or not). We will collect data from sixty international students enrolled in social sciences and humanities programs at two large universities in different regions of Canada. We will use both qualitative (interviews) and quantitative (questionnaires) to explore which factors international students consider when making decisions about staying Canada or returning to their home country after graduation, how they arrive at these decisions, and types of support that can help them navigate the immigration process.
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- 2017-02-01
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- Sociology
- Knowledge Workers
- Canada
- Gender
- Survey
- International Students
- Education
- Recruitment
- Permanent Residents
- Migration
- 2002-2017
- Qualitative Research Methodologies
- Successful SSHRC
- Immigration
- Economics
- Quantitative
- Psychology
- Demographics
- Human Capital
- Nursing
- Counselling
- Push-Pull Model
- Mixed Methods
- Social Structure
- Labour
- Immigrants
- NVIVO
- Career Guidance
- Employment
- IDG
- Insight Development Grant
- QUAN Data
- Canada
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- Research Material
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- © Christine Covell. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2022.