Notes
Community organizations
Philippine Overseas and Employment Administration (POEA)
Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO)
Key recommendations
Developing more gender-neutral pre-arrival services to provide a better integrative approach for inclusion in Canada, where both males and females are given the same quality of service and information
Key findings
Filipinos in Alberta invariably accessed pre-arrival services before arriving in Canada (provided either by the Canadian or Philippine governments; provided by church groups, placement or recruitment agencies, immigration lawyers, and family or other social networks)
Those Filipinos without any formal support prior to their arrival in Alberta have made use of varied strategies to find information to assist them in their settlement in the province.
Services that Filipinos accessed upon arrival were evaluated positively albeit lacking in some ways.
Key populations
Filipino immigrants
Location
Calgary, Edmonton and Lethbridge, Alberta
Integration timeline
At what point during the integration process the study was conducted?
Resided in Alberta for at least 3 years