ImmigrantChildren.ca Archive

Category: General

  • Census 2006 & immigration stats

    Statistics Canada has released several data sets of interest. The news yesterday focussed on the increase of immigrants and the type of immigrants Canada is receiving. It’s important to flag the issues that immigrant parents and children are experiencing. An op-ed, anyone?

    See the Statistics Canada website for:

    Immigration and citizenship highlight tables
    Language highlight tables
    2006 community profiles.

    Customized views of data sets are available and, for our purposes, allow us to look at the numbers of immigrant children coming into Canada. Age breakdowns: 0-4 yrs, 5-9.
    Also of interest is mother tongue and language spoken most often at home.

  • Call for papers: ECE & immigrant children

    Early Childhood Research Quarterly – Special Issue: Call for Papers
    Early Childhood Education and Immigrant Children: Promises, Perils, Cultures, and the Transition to School

    Early Childhood Research Quarterly is planning to publish a special issue dedicated to the diversity of early childhood environments for young immigrant children, and implications for successful development and school transitions. …Most of the current research … has been conducted with older children and adolescents, leaving our knowledge of the development of young immigrant children (age 0-8) sorely lacking.
    The deadline for manuscript submission is April 1, 2008, with a projected deadline for receipt of final revised drafts of papers accepted by October 1, 2008. Questions should be directed to Micere Keels micere@uchicago.edu.

  • Are you going to the Nov 28th meeting in Ottawa?

    Are you going to the Nov 28th meeting in Ottawa to work on formalizing the CCICY? Please post reactions, responses and comments about the meeting on the blog for all of us to learn about what happened.

  • Welcome to immigrantchildren.ca

    immigrantchildren.ca is a site for connection, collaboration and action on behalf of very young immigrant children, birth to age eight, and their parents.