{"id":121,"date":"2012-12-17T16:57:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T21:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/canadaeurope\/?p=121"},"modified":"2012-12-17T16:57:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T21:57:37","slug":"immigration-and-multi-level-governance-in-canada-and-europe-the-role-of-municipalities-as-integration-policy-innovators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/canadaeurope\/2012\/immigration-and-multi-level-governance-in-canada-and-europe-the-role-of-municipalities-as-integration-policy-innovators\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Immigration and Multi-level Governance in Canada and Europe: The role of municipalities as integration &#8216;policy innovators'&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/canadaeurope\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012-12-paper-gunn-uvic-immigrantintegration-municipalities.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Policy Paper <\/a>by Alexander Gunn, University of Victoria<\/p>\n<p>Cities are increasingly identified in Canadian academic and policy literature as being an integral support structure for the settlement and integration of immigrants to Canada \u2013 often serving as the \u201cfirst point of contact\u201d between newcomers and government due to the day-to-day dependence of immigrants on various local public services.\u00a0The ability of municipal\u00a0governments to assist in the immigrant settlement process, however, is continually challenged by\u00a0their weak fiscal capacities and their limited (or non-existent) role in the development of\u00a0immigration policy \u2013 a field that has traditionally been dominated by the federal and provincial\u00a0levels of government.\u00a0This paper will examine how various Canadian cities are overcoming these challenges in order to become \u201cpolicy innovators\u201d in the fields of immigrant settlement and\u00a0integration, often working in collaboration with their federal and provincial counterparts as well\u00a0as with local businesses and civil society organizations.\u00a0<em id=\"__mceDel\" style=\"font-size: 13px\"><em id=\"__mceDel\"><em id=\"__mceDel\"><br \/>\n<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/canadaeurope\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012-12-paper-gunn-uvic-immigrantintegration-municipalities.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-71\" style=\"border: 2px solid black\" alt=\"CommentaryIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/canadaeurope\/wp-content\/uploads\/CommentaryIcon-160x207.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><b><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Policy Paper by Alexander Gunn, University of Victoria Cities are increasingly identified in Canadian academic and policy literature as being an integral support structure for the settlement and integration of immigrants to Canada \u2013 often serving as the \u201cfirst point of contact\u201d between newcomers and government due to the day-to-day dependence of immigrants on various [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30,24,25,26],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - 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