Deserving citizenship? Canadian immigration policy and 'low skilled' Portuguese workers in Toronto

In this thesis I use the case study of Portuguese construction workers in Toronto to provide an assessment of how Canada’s skill-based immigrant selection policies treat workers with low human capital. Government rhetoric and much academic writing has presented skill-based immigration programs as re...

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Main Author: Clifton, Jonathan
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2432