Income inequality and opportunities among immigrants in BC

Hi,

I would agree with your latest comment, Cyrille, rural areas in norther BC etc, would most likely lack the services available to recent immigrants as to what Vancouver would offer. That being said, questioning respondents about both provincial and municipal immigration services would most likely give an accurate picture of his/her settlement experience. Like Heather said, differentiating between the two allows us to narrow the scope of our resulting findings.

To tie in what some of the other threads are discussing, I think the issue of languages proficiency (both before and after admission) will also have baring in our discussion of immigrant settlement in rural and metropolitan areas. More specifically, I think we may find that respondents answers to his/her educational background as well as initiative in attending English and French languages programs in BC will bare results we might expect from either a successful or less-successful immigrant in rural BC.

Also, depending on the government's policy agenda at the time, it may be the case there is a significant push on behalf of the government to develop and settle those rural areas with more densely populated towns. Given Canada's declining birth rate, I see no other option then to favor, immigrants whose intention it is to settle in rural BC, which might have an impact on the services the government makes available in those areas.

Just a few of my thoughts, I tried to jump right into the discussion, so please excuse me if I may have repeated what someone else said.