Best Practices and Best Strategies Used by Anglophone Organizations to Welcome and Integrate Immigrants in Québec City

The authors outline the best practices and strategies deployed by organizations in Quebec City that welcome Anglophone immigrants, and Allophone immigrants whose first official language spoken is English, and that help these immigrants settle in that city. The authors describe and analyse the services and resources that the Quebec City Anglophone community makes available with a view to welcoming these English-speaking immigrants and giving them support. The authors also identify the resources within the Francophone community that work with Anglophone organizations to help deliver this intake and settlement assistance. The authors also consulted Anglophone immigrants in Quebec City, and the Anglophone community of that city, to analyse how these services, and the practices associated with them, influence welcoming, integration and retention. They identified the best practices and strategies used by the community that have positive and promising effects for immigrants and community vitality. Lastly, by comparing these practices and strategies with those deployed in another minority Anglophone community (Sherbrooke) and in a Francophone minority community (Edmonton), the authors reflect on two dimensions of these best practices: the contextual dimension, which is tied to each locality and community; and the dimension that is transferable to other communities and localities.

Ottawa, ON

Refugees and Citizenship Canada / Immigration, réfugiés et citoyenneté Canada

July 2015

iii-52p.

en

978-0-660-06764-3