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Sociology 339FImmigration and Employmenthttp//
www.utoronto.ca/ethnicstudies/SOC339.html
  • Instructor Prof. Jeffrey G. Reitz
  • Department of Sociology
  • Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies
  • Munk Centre for International Studies
  • University of Toronto
  • Fall, 2007

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Sociology 339FImmigration and EmploymentSession
12 November 27Human Rights and Employment
Equity Policy
  • Readings
  • Helen Beck, Jeffrey G. Reitz, and Nan Weiner,
    Proving and redressing systemic racial
    discrimination the Health Canada case, Canadian
    Public Policy 28, 3 (2002) 20 pp.
  • Carol Agocs. "Canada's employment equity
    legislation and policy, 1987-2000 the gap
    between policy and practice." International
    Journal of Manpower 23.3 (March 2002) 256-96.

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Todays Agenda
  • Government Policies and Immigrant Employment
  • Human Rights Commissions
  • Employment Equity Policy
  • Implications

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Government Policies and Immigrant Employment
  • Minority Rights and Majority-based Democracy
  • Policies as repressive tolerance
  • Policies and post-materialist values
  • Policies and economic theory
  • Forms of Minority Representation
  • Electoral politics
  • Advisory units
  • Community pressure
  • Types of Equity Policies
  • Human rights law, Charter
  • Multiculturalism
  • Employment Equity
  • Not Ethno-specific e.g. welfare, labour policy,
    education

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Human Rights Commissions
  • Complaint-based procedures
  • Expensive, time-consuming
  • Difficulties of proof (Frideres and Reeves, 1989)
  • Cases

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Gian Sangha v. Mackenzie Valley Land Water Board
  • Case Summary
  • 52-year-old Sikh of East Indian origin, alleges
    the respondent discriminated against him by
    refusing to employ him on the basis of his race,
    colour, national or ethnic origin, religion and
    age.
  • Respondent denies discriminating, states that
    complainant was not hired because his experience
    and education were far beyond the requirement for
    the position i.e., overqualified
  • Basis of Proof Indirect, Direct
  • Evidence
  • Educational and Experience of Immigrants and
    Visible Minorities
  • Employment Barriers Affecting Immigrants and
    Visible Minorities
  • Representation of Immigrants at Highly Skilled
    Occupations
  • Why Immigrants Accept Work for Which They Are
    Overqualified
  • Are Overqualified Workers less Satisfactory?

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National Capital Alliance on Race Relations
(NCARR) v. Health and Welfare Canada
  • Case Summary
  • Statistical under-representation above glass
    ceiling
  • Denial
  • Evidence
  • Statistical
  • Availability and feeder group
  • Time periods
  • Minimum representation 4/5 rule
  • Survey
  • Attitudes
  • Policy change following decision

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Equity Law and Contract Compliance
  • Results oriented
  • Enforcement Provisions
  • EEO Law in United States (Burstein, 1985)
    Discrimination, Jobs, and Politics The Struggle
    for Equal Employment Opportunity in the U.S.
    since the New Deal
  • Regression time series, with variables controlled
  • Examines effect of various factors on group
    share of earnings
  • Demonstrations replaced by legal process
  • Public attitudes have little effect
  • Enforcement dollars helps minorities but not
    white women
  • Other effects on minority men nil

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Employment Equity in Canada
  • Abella Commission
  • Enforcement provisions
  • Impact model
  • Statistical representation
  • Employment systems identification of barriers
  • Formulation of plan
  • Periodic review
  • Quotas?
  • Federal and provincial laws
  • Lum evaluation

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Implications and Issues
  • Is Employment Equity dead in Ontario?
  • What are alternative means for addressing
    employment discrimination?
  • What is National Action Plan Against Racism?
    (NAPAR)
  • Is a civil rights movement in Canada likely?

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Sociology 339FImmigration and EmploymentNext
week Session 13 December 4 Immigration
policy and immigrant integration
  • Readings
  • Daniel Stoffman, Who Gets In Whats Wrong with
    Canadas Immigration Program and How to Fix It,
    Toronto Macfarlane Walter Ross, 2002, Chapter
    8, Who Gets In, pp. 175-92.
  • Alan Green, What is the Role of Immigration in
    Canadas Future? pp. 33-45 in Canadian
    Immigration Policy for the 21st Century, C.
    Beach, A. Green, and J. Reitz (eds.), Kingston
    John Duetsch Institute, 2003.
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