- Dec 19, 2011
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- Visa Office......
- London
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- 3112
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- 28 Oct 2009
- AOR Received.
- 29 Jun 2010
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- 06 Jan 2010
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- 09 Oct 2012
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- 20 Oct 2012
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- 04 June 2013
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- 01 July 2013
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Who drives a taxi in Canada?
Immigrant underemployment has been a hot media topic in Canada in recent years. PhDs and MDs driving a taxi has become a classic media example of the phenomena that highly educated immigrants perform low-skill work after arrival in Canada.
Exactly, how serious is the issue of employment down skilling of immigrants in Canada, particularly in the taxi driving occupation? Although, there have been frequent media reports of taxi PhDs and MDs, there have been few serious inquiries into this issue.
According to the 2006 Census, taxi driving has become an occupation highly concentrated with immigrants in Canada. There were over 50,000 taxi drivers in Canada; two out of four drivers were immigrants. This ratio is double that of immigrants in the Canadian population of the same age range (almost 1 in 4), thus immigrants were significantly over represented in the taxi driving occupation.
Taxi driving is identified as a skill level C in the National Occupational Classification, which usually requires secondary school and/or occupation-specific training. About 35% of Canadian born taxi drivers and 53% of immigrant taxi drivers had at least some post secondary education and may be overqualified for their job. Over-education occurs both among Canadian-born and immigrant taxi drivers, but the rate was higher among immigrants.
Taxi driving was the main job for 255 doctorate or medicine and related degree holders – 200 of which were immigrants. A further 6,040 taxi drivers (12.0%) held a bachelor’s or master’s degree, the majority of them (80.7%) being immigrants. Among all immigrant taxi drivers, 20.2% have bachelor’s degree or better; more than 4 times the rate for Canadian-born taxi drivers (4.8%). Immigrants from India, Pakistan, Lebanon, Haiti and Iran were significantly over represented among immigrant taxi drivers.
Immigrants accounted for half and up to 80% of taxi drivers in 8 Canadian cities (Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa-Gatineau, Winnipeg, Montreal, and Hamilton); in Toronto and Vancouver specifically, more than 80% of taxi drivers are immigrants. Outside of these 8 cities, immigrants accounted for only 17.5% of all cab drivers.
This is an extract from an analysis conducted by Li Xu and published in CIC website.The full version of this analysis can be accessed at : http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/research-stats/taxi.pdf
The good thing is that the recent developments in the immigration process shows that the Government of Canada is highly concerned about such matters and wants to ensure the success of immigrants in their area of specialization. They realize that the potentials of such highly skilled professionals are under-utilized and they did not immigrate to Canada to become taxi drivers...Thanks for your time and reading.
Immigrant underemployment has been a hot media topic in Canada in recent years. PhDs and MDs driving a taxi has become a classic media example of the phenomena that highly educated immigrants perform low-skill work after arrival in Canada.
Exactly, how serious is the issue of employment down skilling of immigrants in Canada, particularly in the taxi driving occupation? Although, there have been frequent media reports of taxi PhDs and MDs, there have been few serious inquiries into this issue.
According to the 2006 Census, taxi driving has become an occupation highly concentrated with immigrants in Canada. There were over 50,000 taxi drivers in Canada; two out of four drivers were immigrants. This ratio is double that of immigrants in the Canadian population of the same age range (almost 1 in 4), thus immigrants were significantly over represented in the taxi driving occupation.
Taxi driving is identified as a skill level C in the National Occupational Classification, which usually requires secondary school and/or occupation-specific training. About 35% of Canadian born taxi drivers and 53% of immigrant taxi drivers had at least some post secondary education and may be overqualified for their job. Over-education occurs both among Canadian-born and immigrant taxi drivers, but the rate was higher among immigrants.
Taxi driving was the main job for 255 doctorate or medicine and related degree holders – 200 of which were immigrants. A further 6,040 taxi drivers (12.0%) held a bachelor’s or master’s degree, the majority of them (80.7%) being immigrants. Among all immigrant taxi drivers, 20.2% have bachelor’s degree or better; more than 4 times the rate for Canadian-born taxi drivers (4.8%). Immigrants from India, Pakistan, Lebanon, Haiti and Iran were significantly over represented among immigrant taxi drivers.
Immigrants accounted for half and up to 80% of taxi drivers in 8 Canadian cities (Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa-Gatineau, Winnipeg, Montreal, and Hamilton); in Toronto and Vancouver specifically, more than 80% of taxi drivers are immigrants. Outside of these 8 cities, immigrants accounted for only 17.5% of all cab drivers.
This is an extract from an analysis conducted by Li Xu and published in CIC website.The full version of this analysis can be accessed at : http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/research-stats/taxi.pdf
The good thing is that the recent developments in the immigration process shows that the Government of Canada is highly concerned about such matters and wants to ensure the success of immigrants in their area of specialization. They realize that the potentials of such highly skilled professionals are under-utilized and they did not immigrate to Canada to become taxi drivers...Thanks for your time and reading.
