My tweets are my own // Lead Research Associate, Immigration @ConfBoardofCda // Research Affiliate @CERCmigration // Economist
Milton, Ontario
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⏰20% of immigrants leave within 3-7 years
Economic immigrants👷🏿, francophone immigrants 🥐and former international students 🧑🏿🎓are the most likely to leave.
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"If you don't allow firms to hire immigrant workers, they just become smaller firms ... They are not replaced with US workers. Instead, the output of the firm shrinks, and there are fewer total workers."
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(1/n) An interesting article and program, but needs more thought around it think🤔
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(3/n) At the same time, the hype is skewed heavily toward Natural Sciences. The social returns on Humanities & Social Sciences are massive, with a fraction of the infrastructure cost. India needs sharp critical thinking to solve persistent, real-world social issues.
Tied to the Job: The Gains from Permanent Residency
Open work permits >> Closed work permits.
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🌇How does Canada's two-step immigration impact our cities? Our new paper reveals that selecting permanent residents from temporary pools lowers overall population growth and concentrates settlement in Montreal, Toronto & Vancouver.
🆕Read our open-access article here: doi.org/10.1002/psp.70238
This is a great blog for academic economists who want to delve deeper into using GenAI tools to do research and Write Good Code!
As was recently mentioned by @aniketapanjwani, "Economists are Horrible, Horrible, Horrible Programmers", I tend to agree.
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Does scrolling social media actually help immigrants land better jobs? 📱💼
Pre-arrival information seeking impacts post-arrival earnings—but where and what you search for matters.
Grab one of 50 free e-prints 👇🏾
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@CERCMigration @TorontoMet #cdnimm
🚨Canada loses 1 in 5 immigrants within 25 years
🚨The risk of leaving peaks in the first 5 years.
🚨Highly skilled immigrants are twice as likely to leave.
Our new report shows why retention matters for Canada’s future 👇🏾
bit.ly/4oNw9dx
#Immigration #Policy #Retention
🚨 Nearly 30 Canadian language programs shut down in just 3 months.
It's the sharpest decline in the sector’s history.
Funding cuts + policy limbo = real harm to immigrant integration.
🔗 monitor.icef.com/2025/07/nea…
New article featuring our Special Issue on how social media shapes public narratives around migration, belonging, and racism. Grateful to be part of this timely conversation.
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#Migration #SocialMedia #DigitalRacism
@CERCMigration @first_monday
🌎 New U.S. Tariffs on Canada & Mexico 📈📑 pose challenges for regional trade agreements. How will this impact migration and economic ties? My research explores how diaspora networks shape trade.
Read more in my chapter: 🔗 doi.org/10.4337/978180088765…
#Trade #Migration #Economy
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New poll: 90% of Canadians reject Trump's '51st state' rhetoric, as booing the U.S. anthem becomes a common occurrence at sports events. @triandafyllidou reveals how external pressure ironically strengthens Canada's unique 'plural nationalism' #CDNpoli 🔗 theconversation.com/how-dona…
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⏰#Apply today! 4 Senior Research Associates positions:
🔹Immigrant Health & Well-Being
🔹Employment & Lifelong Learning
🔹Place & Infrastructure
🔹Citizenship & Participation
Contribute to innovative #research on migrant integration and digital transformation 👇#Hiring
⏰Last week to apply! The @BridgDivides team @TorontoMet is looking for 4 Senior Research Associates to contribute to innovative research on migrant integration in the fields of: Health, Employment, Infrastructure, and Citizenship. Apply by January 20!
🔗torontomu.ca/bridging-divide…
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The H-1B program induced Indians to switch to computer science (CS) occupations, increasing the CS workforce and overall IT production in India by 15%.
It also induced US workers to switch to non-CS occupations, reducing the US native CS workforce by 4.7%.
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📊 APPLICATIONS DUE TOMORROW for the @cercmigration Winter School, Feb. 18–21, 2025, at @TorontoMet. This intensive research methods training is open to graduate students, emerging scholars and practitioners. Apps due: Dec. 12, 2024. 🔗: torontomu.ca/cerc-migration/…
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Registration open: CARFMS 2025 Conference "Canadian, Regional, and International Responses to Forced Migration".
Date: May 26-29, 2025
Location: Toronto Metropolitan University
Details and register: site.pheedloop.com/event/car…
🚨Webinar today!
I will speaking to my research on Advanced Digital Technologies in the Settlement Sector alongside Aimee Holmes @ACCESEmployment and Abdulla Daoud @RefugeeCentre
Register here 👇🏾 for the event at 12:00PM EST
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I will be speaking to previous research work with co-authors @Mr_NevynPillai and Masoud Kianpour.
As well as new unpublished research on the impact of remotely delivered employment-related settlement services on immigrants' employment an earnings
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