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Local Immigration Partnerships: How Is Peterborough Engaged with Immigrant Integration?

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Canadian Perspectives on Immigration in Small Cities

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This chapter examines the efforts of community and municipal organizations in Peterborough, Ontario, and their involvement in creating a council for improving immigrant integration. It chronicles how the collaborative work between a resettlement agency, community organizations and municipal stakeholders has helped constitute the Peterborough Partnership Council on Immigrant Integration. It also explores the question of multi-level governance through examining the way immigration is seen through competing municipal lenses. The research investigates and names areas of jurisdictional competition, service gaps, social planning mandates and service delivery practices that exist between and across local institutional bodies of governance—as they pertain to immigrant resettlement. In the context of municipal-provincial relations, local stakeholders often lack direct communication and/or consultation with their provincial counterparts. One goal of this study is to examine the manner by which these gaps in immigrant planning occur and are perpetuated on the city, county, township and provincial level. This chapter critically examines provincial and federal governance as embodied in the local immigration partnerships and counterposes the local activity of the partnership's efforts to develop a plan to integrate and retain newcomers with those of the city and province.

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  1. Department of Criminology, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, BC, Canada

    Michael C. K. Ma

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    Glenda Tibe Bonifacio

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    Julie L. Drolet

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Ma, M.C.K. (2017). Local Immigration Partnerships: How Is Peterborough Engaged with Immigrant Integration?. In: Tibe Bonifacio, G., Drolet, J. (eds) Canadian Perspectives on Immigration in Small Cities. International Perspectives on Migration, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40424-0_4

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