most of the immigrants to canada come from united states.
most of the immigrants to canada come from united states.
where do most of the immigrants to canada come from?
united states
the immigrants in davisville come from many different countries. the country where most of davisville's immigrants come from is the united kingdom. in 2006 there were 955 people living in davisville from the united kingdom. there are also 480 immigrants living in davisville from the united states of america and 470 immigrants from iran. other countries of origin for davisville immigrants are china, india, philippines, germany, poland, jamaica, south korea, romania and russia.
davisville village
heather smith and david ley found that in canada's gateway cities, "the appreciable growth of the low-income population during the 1990s was almost entirely attributable to the growing poverty of recent immigrants". they go on to state, "adult immigrants who had landed in the previous decade endured a poverty rate of...37 percent in vancouver". immigrants, recent and old, therefore constitute a large proportion of households in metro vancouver considered to be at-risk of homelessness. analysis conducted by robert fiedler revealed that, in 2001, "29.1% of persons in households...in greater vancouver are below more than one cmhc housing standard, indicating that...some households not only must spend an unsustainably high proportion of their income on shelter costs, but must also live in overcrowded and/or substandard conditions to access housing". although many new immigrants to canada come from educated backgrounds, many having bachelor's degrees, they are paid less on average than canadian born individuals and "over the past 25 years, the incomes of recent immigrants to canada have progressively declined relative to the native-born."
demographics of metro vancouver