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Future of immigration in Canada.
Canada has always been a welcoming country to any person throughout the world. It has always opened its arms to people who show genuine interest to migrate there. It is due to this reason that there is a vivid cultural diversity in Canada. This is a report for the minister of health and immigration of Canada. The report aims to give a better understanding of the immigration situation of Canada, explaining how it has been in the past. The aim of this report is to explain the situation in the past so that a better policy can be made for all the future immigration programs be it in the short run or in the long run. The dataset used here is a public dataset. This report is important as the govt can form new policies to keep a balance in the immigration of people into it. So that there is a diverse community into it while all living happily. At a first glance, it is evident that the incoming immigrant traffic is from almost every region of the world moving to different regions of Canada.
The dataset used is taken from “Immigration to Canada IBM Dataset” from the Kaggle website. The dataset consists of immigration data from a period of 1980 to 2013. Data consist of Coverage as foreigners and citizen of Canada. Foreigner’s country of origin and continent. Along with the information on, to which region they have immigrated. Data is given for 196 different countries and 6 continents along with information from unknown countries. Data do not contain unknown variables or missing values. Information given to the immigration unit should be accurate so here we have not considered the data from unknown countries.
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The “Continents and countries” graph tell us about the number of countries taking part in immigration classified according to the continents. This shows that highly African countries are involved in moving to Canada. After Africa, Asian countries are in the 2nd position involved in moving to Canada. In immigration, the least involved in North America and the citizens of Canada. Countries from Europe, Oceania and Latin America, and the Caribbean are 43, 14, and 33.
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The “Immigration to Developed regions” bar plot gives us information about the people from different continents who are interested in developed regions. From the graph, we can see that European people are mostly interested in the developed regions, who prefer moving to developed regions than that of the developing regions. The interest of people increased nearly double from 1980 to 1990. But later we see a downward fall in the interest of European people from 1990 to 2013. Asia and Oceania countries are least interested in developed countries in Canada. Which remains almost constant during this period. For Northern America countries the number went down in 1990 and 2000 but increased in further years. From the graph, we get that the immigration system should focus on the policies for the Asian, Northern America, Oceania, and other countries so that they could be attracted to the developed countries.
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The “Immigration to Developing regions” graph explains the preference of people from different continents to choose developing regions in Canada for immigration over a period of time. From the graph, we see that Asian people prefer the developing region than that of the developed region which can be compared in Fig2. The preference has been increasing over the years from 1980 till 2010 and there was a slight downfall in 2013. But the number increased five times in 2013 from 1980. After Asia, African countries preference increased throughout and shows an increasing trend till 2013. We see up and down in the number of Latin American countries people. The least interesting continent is Oceania which remains constant over all the years.
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The graph migration of people from all continents (1980-2013) gives information on the increase or decrease in the number of migrants from 1980 to 2013. From the line graph, we can see that in the year 1980 people from European countries migrated in more number than that of the other continents. But later theirs a downward fall in the number of immigrants. From 1980 to 2013 we see a large number of people from Asian countries have immigrated to Canada. For Latin America, Northern America and Oceania the graph shows a constant number of people over the years. Also, can see a gradual increase in number of immigrants from African countries. Asian countries are in more numbers over the years.
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So, to finally give an overview of the authorities, we can say that people from Asian countries migrate the highest as compared to any other country. It is also evident that Asians prefer to migrate to the developing regions in Canada. On contrary, Europeans are the ones who love migrating to the developed region. Overall, the migration of Europeans into Canada has seen a downfall since 1990, while Asia and Africa have been an ever-increasing migrating region. Considering this, the Canadian immigration office can further study why there has been a decrease in European immigration, and it can make policies to promote immigration to Europeans. The department can revise the rules for Asian immigration to keep it steady and not be decreasing. Oceania promotes more and similar can be seen in North America. Due to the increase in the immigration of Asians to the developing region and decrease in the immigration of European countries to the developed regions a question of population imbalance has been urged in both developed and developing regions. New policies for balance between developing and the developed region is a must at immediate stance. Department must design policies in a short period because of the imbalance population in Canada and to maintain a diverse culture. So accordingly, the minister of health and immigration of Canada should define new rules thinking for the near future as well as the far future.