Canadian doctor's have recently noticed an increase in expectant mothers from foreign countries having babies in Canada to secure citizenship for them.
According to the article, most are relatively well-off mothers from developing countries.
Under Canadian law, anyone born on Canadian soil automatically becomes a Canadian citizen and is entitled to state funded social services such as Medicare.
So far the number of anchor babies being born in Canada hasn't reached the levels seen in the U.S, but the problem is likely to increase if the government fails to tackle the issue soon.
On a more positive note, the government of Australia says it intends to reduce skilled immigration in response to the global economic slowdown.
The size of the expected cut should be annouced in the next few weeks.
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Monday, March 02, 2009
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Canadian immigraton
Most websites about non-western immigration tend to be either by immigration restrictionists or pro-immigration liberals. The Canadian site NotCanada (hat tip: Elliot Lake News) takes a different tack. It looks at immigration from the perspective of immigrants who have given up on trying to settle in Canada and have returned to their homelands, feed up with life in the over-hyped West.
Personally I find some of the claims of prejudice against immigrants a little overblown, but I do have sympathy for immigrants who have come to a western country under false promises, and have been ripped off by greedy governments, employment agencies and immigration lawyers.
Life in North America and Australasia may be better than in many less developed countries, but that doesn't mean they're lands of milk of honey. Crime, traffic congestion, living costs, and bureaucracy are all on the increase, and big business and government are not providing prospective immigrants with realistic, objective information about job opportunities (maybe we should have independent bodies to assess labour needs?).
For example, there's no point in the Canadian government allowing in more doctors from non-western countries, if it doesn't think such doctors are adequately qualified to work in a western hospital. Such a policy will inevitably anger both immigrants, who will feel exploited and deceived, and locals who will perceive it as a cynical way of bringing in cheap labour.
Personally I find some of the claims of prejudice against immigrants a little overblown, but I do have sympathy for immigrants who have come to a western country under false promises, and have been ripped off by greedy governments, employment agencies and immigration lawyers.
Life in North America and Australasia may be better than in many less developed countries, but that doesn't mean they're lands of milk of honey. Crime, traffic congestion, living costs, and bureaucracy are all on the increase, and big business and government are not providing prospective immigrants with realistic, objective information about job opportunities (maybe we should have independent bodies to assess labour needs?).
For example, there's no point in the Canadian government allowing in more doctors from non-western countries, if it doesn't think such doctors are adequately qualified to work in a western hospital. Such a policy will inevitably anger both immigrants, who will feel exploited and deceived, and locals who will perceive it as a cynical way of bringing in cheap labour.
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