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| Institution | Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) |
|---|---|
| Titel | Responding to the Academic Sector's Use of TFWPs: CAUT Submission to Immigration, Refugees & Citizenship Canada |
| Quelle | (2018), (5 Seiten)
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Monographie |
| Schlagwörter | Foreign Countries; College Faculty; Immigrants; Foreign Nationals; Foreign Workers; Teacher Selection; Immigration; Faculty Mobility; Unemployment; Underemployment; Research Universities; Canada |
| Abstract | Concerns about a bias against the hiring of Canadian and permanent resident academics arose in the late 1960s. With a wave of hiring unleashed by the expansion of the university and college system over the previous decade, evidence was mounting that Canadian candidates were routinely being rejected in favour of international applicants, principally from the United States and the United Kingdom. In many cases this discrimination stemmed from a problem of self-reproduction. Departments and faculties that had high numbers of international academics actively recruited other non Canadians in their home countries, often informally and without even posting vacancies. In response, the then federal Department of Manpower and Immigration introduced rules to ensure fairer hiring procedures. In 1977, it made the advertising of all vacancies mandatory, and in 1981 it further stipulated that universities would be required to consider all Canadian applicants before advertising jobs to international candidates. While not prohibiting the hiring of international academics, the policies adopted by the federal government at the time did help reverse the tide against Canadian candidates. By the mid-1980s, at the largest institutions in the country the proportion of university professors who held a Canadian PhD reached a peak. That share, however, began to decline by the late 1990s, and has fallen further following a significant weakening of the rules in 2003. The growing underemployment and unemployment in the academic sector suggests that the use of both the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) and the International Mobility Program (IMP), and short-term contract work more generally, must be more judiciously considered by all stakeholders. The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), an organization representing more than 70,000 academic staff at over 120 post-secondary institutions across the country, wishes to highlight in this publication the context of growing underemployment and unemployment at Canadian research institutions. CAUT calls attention to this context knowing that it has real impacts on both domestic and international talent. Given this context, CAUT recommends that Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) require a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) for academic workers in both the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) and the International Mobility Program (IMP) to better ensure that Canadians and permanent residents are not being overlooked. Caut also urges both IRCC and Universities Canada to lobby for more full-time permanent positions for early-career scholars. In addition to the labour market assessments, CAUT urges IRCC to ensure that international academics have access to real pathways to permanency. CAUT also urges both the IRCC and Universities Canada to take measures to ensure that Canadian universities are employing qualified candidates into new full-time, permanent positions, as opposed to part-time and temporary contract positions. Finally CAUT wishes to underscore the importance of gathering data on the demographic characteristics of TFWP and IMP permit holders. (ERIC). |
| Anmerkungen | Canadian Association of University Teachers. 2705 Queensview Drive, Ottawa, ON K2B 8K2, Canada. Tel: 613-820-2270; Fax: 613-820-7244; e-mail: acppu@caut.ca; Web site: http://www.caut.ca |
| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
| Update | 2020/1/01 |
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