Exploring Challenges Faced by Non-Status Immigrants in Canada

This essay delves into the challenges faced by non-status immigrants in Canada, focusing on issues such as employment barriers, communication difficulties, and the inadequacies of current immigration policies. It highlights how non-status immigrants often struggle to find jobs that match their qualifications due to lack of Canadian work references and employers' biases. The essay also discusses the hidden job market in Canada and the lack of coordination between employers and the immigration department. It concludes that the Canadian government needs to revise its immigration policy to better address the needs of immigrants and promote better communication and integration, while employers should be more open to hiring immigrants and assisting them with legal requirements. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments and resources.

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Introduction
In most of the countries, the non-status immigrants face various problems after migrating
to a new place. They are needed to adopt new variations of the new society and should know the
values of the new culture of the place where they have been migrating. Immigrants refer to
people who permanently settle in a different country. Non-status immigrants are non-
documented immigrants that go to live in a different country. They are usually not benefitted in
any way by their present country of residence. Residents of a country are full citizens of a
country with every rights and duties. For example in this case a Canadian resident. The
difficulties faced by the non-status immigrants of Canada will be the focus of this study.
Challenges faced by the non-status immigrants in Canada
An article can be considered for this study, authored by Okeke-Ihejirika et al. (2018). The
article points out that in the midst of the current global refugee crisis situations, tensions have
risen with regards to the debate of refugee relocation. This is found out as stated by (Okeke-
Ihejirika et al., 2018) most of the professionals are getting involved in odd jobs in Canada and
this is not because they are getting ample amount of money but because they are not considered
by the Canadian employers as per their education and experiences. Most of the common
problems faced by the immigrants in Canada are that the immigrants are not trusted properly as
they mostly lack the Canadian work references although they have the necessity of getting a job
in Canada. Another common challenge faced by non-status immigrants is the communication
problem with the Canadian people (Elrick & Lightman, 2016).
As published in ("5 reasons skilled immigrants complain they don’t get jobs in Canada",
2019) of the first major challenges faced by the immigrants in getting job in Canada are that they

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are not at all acquainted with the type of job responsibility, wage aspects and labor requirements
in the country. This creates a large cultural, economic as well as professional gap in their lives.
Secondly, the country still does not have an actual documentation process that is created to help
the non-status migrants. This makes employment even more difficult for them. Thirdly, there is
always the added risk of being identified as an illegal migrant and subsequently potential
deportation.
Challenges faced by the non-status immigrants in Canada based on employment
The immigrants mostly complain regarding the job workshops in Canada as stated by
(Okeke-Ihejirika et al. 2018) that most of the 85% of the job market in Canada is hidden. The
hidden job market means that there are various jobs those who are offered without the
advertisements and only employers, managers and the supervisors know about the job. The
immigrants require jobs, but most of the Canadian employers do not provide them with a job as
most of the employers have such a concept that the Canadians are always better than others. The
Canadian employers also have such tendency of obliging people in the social circle.
Reasons for facing difficulties in Canada
The employers and the Canadian immigration department does not focus on making any
coordination regarding preparing the immigration policy. The Canadian immigration policy is so
obsolete that it does not reflect upon the real needs of the labour market (Elrick & Lightman,
2016). The significant issues with the existing policies are inadmissibility for medical reasons,
inadmissibility for criminals, long delay in getting status and frequent application refusal. Once
Prime Minister Harper was asked in an interview concerning multicultural issues, why he has not
developed the Rights of landing FEE. He had said “It is so many million dollars”, taking into

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consideration the costs for accommodating migrants and migrant laborers. This reflects that the
most important decision makers are more concerned about the costs and other monetary aspects
(Okeke-Ihejirika et al., 2018). Another reason for facing difficulty is that most of the Canadian
employers, supervisors and the managers are not trained for utilizing the multicultural aspects in
the workplace.
Conclusion
Therefore from the above discussion, it can be concluded that the Canadian government needs to
upgrade the immigration policy. The policy requires to be revised based on the wisdom and
skills, and not unnecessary focused only towards helping the rich migrants landing on the
Canadian airport. The communication problem and employment are the major problems faced by
the non-status immigrants in Canada. They can be resolved through better immigrant dialogue
and communication system implementation by the government. The employers should be more
considerate about employing immigrants in their organizations and helping them fulfill the legal
and legislative requirements.

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