Title: Sociology 339F Immigration and Employment http:www.utoronto.caethnicstudiesSOC339.html
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- Instructor Prof. Jeffrey G. Reitz
- Department of Sociology
- Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies
- Munk Centre for International Studies
- University of Toronto
- Fall, 2007
2Sociology 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.
3Todays Agenda
- Government Policies and Immigrant Employment
- Human Rights Commissions
- Employment Equity Policy
- Implications
4Government 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
5Human Rights Commissions
- Complaint-based procedures
- Expensive, time-consuming
- Difficulties of proof (Frideres and Reeves, 1989)
- Cases
6Gian 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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8National 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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11Equity 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
12Employment 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
13Implications 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?
14Sociology 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.