Community Organizations and New Immigrants in Montreal: What are the Employment Services’ Effects?
This article concerns community organizations (CO) employment services’ effects on new immigrants from visible minorities. First, we review the main difficulties met generally by new immigrants from visible minorities in the process of market labour integration. Second, we offer some reflections about the contribution of CO employment services to the settlement of new immigrants from visible minorities. Finally, we highlight the impact of this type of CO employment service on new immigrants to Montreal from visible minorities in the process of integration. We show that CO employment services facilitate the integration of new immigrants not only as regards the labour market but also that they affect migrants’ social networks. Moreover, the contributions of these services are not significantly different by gender.