NDLI: Is Immigrant Selection in Canada Racialized? Visa Officer Discretion and Approval Rates for Spousal and Federal Skilled Worker Applications

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Satzewich, Vic
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Despite publically abandoning racialized selection criteria for the selection of immigrants over 50 years ago, critics argue that Canada’s immigration programme continues to display elements of racialized bias and that a hidden intention of Canada’s immigration programme is to keep Canada ‘white’. In particular, the exercise of discretion by visa officers is said to allow for racial biases to creep into the decision-making process. By examining visa office approval rates for C50 Federal Skilled Worker and Family Class spouse and partner applications, this paper questions whether decision-making by overseas visa officers who process applications for permanent residence in Canada is racialized. Though visa office and visa category approval rates do in fact vary, the pattern of variation is not consistent with the view that visa officers’ work involves stemming the flow of visible minorities to Canada.
Starting Page	1023
Ending Page	1040
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISSN	14883473
Journal	Journal of International Migration and Integration / Revue de l'integration et de la migration internationale
Volume Number	16
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	18746365
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2014-09-10
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Visa officer discretion Decision-making Racism Immigration Spousal migration Federal Skilled Workers Migration Demography Sociology Population Economics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Demography Anthropology Cultural Studies

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
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