International Conference on Immigration, Integration and Inclusion (c4i) Quebec city, Hôtel Pur, May 31st – June 3rd, 2015 Call for proposals Immigrant Experiences in the Labour Market Immigrant receiving countries including Canada have diverse populations. A significant proportion of their residents are foreign-born, belong to a minority group, speak languages different from the official language(s), and are affiliated with a religion other than the commonly practiced religion. While the social structure and composition is increasingly becoming diverse to include persons from a range of ethnic, religious and cultural groups in these countries, discrimination and exclusion of immigrant groups from social and economic life withstands. Having a foreign background constitute an obstacle and give the immigrants and their descendants a disadvantage in the labour market. Immigrants face challenges not only in entering the labour market, but also socially integrating into the work environment. This panel aims to provide critical insights into immigrant integration into the labour market in Canada as well as in other immigrant receiving countries. It seeks to discuss questions such as: • What is the role and place of immigrants in the economy and labour market? • How are immigrants experiencing the economic integration process? • What are the challenges and barriers immigrants face in entering the labour market and integrating into the social work environment? • What are the responsibilities of employers? What strategies could they use for including more immigrants into their workplaces? • What is the perspective of employees and/or employers who are members of the host society? What do they think about the role of immigrants in the labour market and in their companies? • Does “finding a job” necessarily, mean integrating into the labour market? Is there more to integration into the workplace? • What is the representation of different ethnic groups in the segments of the labour market? Are they equally represented in different sectors and at all levels? • To what extent are the host countries “welcoming” immigrants? While allowing them within the borders of their countries, are they still setting and keeping the boundaries? This session invites empirical and theoretical papers that address similar questions and explore immigrant labour market experiences, labour market programs and implementations with an intention to create insights into our understanding of the place of immigrants in our communities. Please send your abstracts (100 words) by email to: [email protected] The 2015-C4i Congress is sponsored by Industrial relations Review, which will publish in the fall of 2016 a special issue on the socioprofessionnal integration of migrants. This issue will include a selection of the best articles chosen by a special editorial committee and respecting the publication criteria of the journal. These criteria are detailed here: http://www.riir.ulaval.ca/regles.asp?var=EN. The other presentations and articles will be published in the Congress proceedings to be published in December 2015. Deadlines 1) March 13, 2015: deadline for sending an abstract (no longer than 500 words) presenting the subject of the proposal, the methodology used and expected results. 2) March 28th, 2015: participants notified of acceptance to C4i. 3) May 15th, 2015: deadline to submit final papers, indicating intent to submit (or not) for publication in Industrial relations Review or in the Congress proceedings. 4) May 15th, 2015: deadline to submit final PowerPoint presentations.