Settlement and Integration of Immigrants and Immigration Policy (also see section on STEM and High Skill workers)
Monica Boyd, Shawn Perron and David G. Cowan. 2021 (Under Review). The Contemporary Labor Market Integration of Vietnamese Refugees in Canada.
Monica Boyd and Nathan Ly. 2021 (Forthcoming). Unwanted and Uninvited: Canadian Exceptionalism in Migration and the 2017-2020 Irregular Border Crossings. American Review of Canadian Studies 51.
Monica Boyd and Shawn Perron. 2020. Private and Government Sponsorships: Occupational and Earnings Outcomes for Vietnamese, Laotian and Cambodian Refugees. Canadian Diversity 17(2): 70-76.Download
Monica Boyd and Joanne Nowak. 2012. Social Networks and International Migration. In Jan Rath and Marco Martiniello (eds.) International Migration and Immigrant Incorporation: The Dynamics of Globalization and Ethnic Diversity in European Life. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, IMISCOE, Pp. 77-103.Download
Monica Boyd. 2012. Language Proficiency, Immigrants and Civic Participation. Chapter 20 in Gregory Katsas (ed.) Current Issues in Sociology: Work and Minorities. Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research, Pp. 241-257.Download
Monica Boyd and Naomi Alboim. 2012. Managing International Migration: The Canadian Case. Chapter 4 in Dan Rodríguez-García (ed.). Managing Immigration and Diversity in Canada: A Transatlantic Dialogue in the New Age of Migration. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, Queen’s Policy Studies Series, Pp. 123-150.Download
Monica Boyd and Emily Laxer. 2011. Voting Across Immigrant Generations. Pp. 276-280. in Lorne Tepperman and Angela Kalyta (eds). Reading Sociology. Toronto:Oxford Press.Download
Lisa Kaida and Monica Boyd. 2011. Poverty Variations among the Elderly: The Roles of Income Security Policies and Family Co-Residence. Canadian Journal on Aging. 30 (1) : 83–100Download
Monica Boyd. 2010. Immigrants in Canada: Trends and Issues. Pp. 207-231 Barry Edmonston and Eric Fong (eds.) in 2001 Census Collection. McGill-Queens University Press.Download
Monica Boyd and Michael Vickers. 2000. 100 Years of Immigration. Canadian Social Trends . Autumn, No 58: 2-12. Updated in 2003 and 2008.Download
Also see 2017 UPDATE: Monica Boyd and Michael Vickers. 2017. The Ebb and Flow of Immigration in Canada. Edward Grabb, Jeffrey G. Reitz, and Monica Hwang (eds). Social Inequality in Canada: Dimensions of Disadvantage (sixth edition). Toronto: Oxford University Press, Pp. 155-172.Download
STEM Immigrant Workers, High Skill Immigration, and Over-Education Issues
Monica Boyd and Siyue Tian. 2018. Is STEM Education Portable? Country of Education and the Economic Integration of STEM Immigrants. Journal of International Migration and Integration. 19 (November): 965-1003.Download
Monica Boyd and Siyue Tian. 2017. STEM Education and STEM Work: Nativity Inequalities in Occupations and Earnings. International Migration 55(1): 75-98.Download
Monica Boyd. 2014. Recruiting High Skill Labour in North America: Policies, Outcomes and Futures. International Migration 52(3): 40-54.Download
Monica Boyd. 2013. Reaccreditation and the Labour Market Integration of the Internationally Trained Engineers and Physicians in Canada. In Phil Triadafilopoulos (ed.) Policies for Highly Skilled Immigration in Comparative Perspectives. New York: Springer Publishers, Pp. 165-197.Download
Monica Boyd and Grant Schellenberg 2007. Re-accreditation and the Occupations of Immigrant Doctors and Engineers. Canadian Social Trends. No. 84 (September): 2–8Download
Monica Boyd and Derrick Thomas. 2001. Match or Mismatch? The Labour Market Performances of Foreign-Born Engineers. Population Research & Policy Review. (Special Refereed Issue on High-Skill Migration) 20(1/2): 107-133.Download
Monica Boyd and Derrick Thomas. 2002. Skilled Immigrant Labour: Country of Origin and the Occupational Locations of Male Engineers. Canadian Studies in Population. 29(1):71-99.Download
Monica Boyd. 2001. Asian Engineers in Canada. Pp. 85-109 in Wayne A. Cornelius and Thomas J. Espenshade, (eds), The International Migration of the Highly Skilled: Demand, Supply, and Development Consequences. La Jolla, Calif.: Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California-San Diego.Download
Migrant Women
Monica Boyd. 2021. Women, Gender, and Migration Trends in a Global World. Chapter, pp. 19-36 in The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, and Migration. Claudia Mora and Nicole Piper (eds). Palgrave MacMillan https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63347-9_2
Monica Boyd. 2017. Closing the Open Door? Canada’s Changing Policy for Migrant Caregivers. Pp. 167-189 in Sonya Michel and Ito Peng (eds). Gender, Migration and the Work of Care: A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Pacific Rim. NY: Palgrave.Download
Monica Boyd and Joanne Nowak. 2013. A Gender-Blind Approach in Canadian Refugee Processes: Mexican Female Claimants in the New Refugee Narrative. In Marlou Schrover and Deirdre M. Moloney (eds). Gender, migration and categorisation. Making distinctions between migrants in Western countries 1945-2010. Pp.105-126. Amsterdam University Press.Download
Monica Boyd and Jessica Yiu. 2009. Immigrant Women and Earning Inequalities. Pp. 208-232 in Vijay Agnew (ed.) Racialized Migrant Women in Canada: Essays on Health, Violence and Equity. Toronto: University of Toronto PressDownload
Monica Boyd and Deanna Pikkov. 2005. Gendering Migration, Livelihood, and Entitlements: Migrant Women in Canada and the United States. Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development.Download
Monica Boyd and Deanna Pikkov. 2008. Finding a Place in Stratified Structures: Migrant Women in North America. Pp. 19-58 in Nicole Piper (editor), New Perspectives on Gender and Migration: Livelihoods, Rights, and Entitlements. London: Routledge.
Monica Boyd. 2006. Migration in an Interconnected and Gendered World. Pp. 12-20 in Joseph Chamie and Mary G. Powers (editors) International Migration and the Global Community: a Forum on the Report of the Global Commission on International Migration. New York: Center for Migration Studies.Download
Monica Boyd. 2006. Push Factors Resulting in the Decision for Women to Migrate. Pp. 29-38 in Female Migrants: Bridging the Gaps throughout the Life Cycle. New York: UNFPA and IOM.Download
The above citation is also available online: www.un.int/iom/final%20report%20Sept%202006.pdf or http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/Female_Migrants.pdf
Monica Boyd. 2006. Gender Aspects of International Migration to Canada and the United States. Pp. 1-16. International Symposium on International Migration and Development. United Nations Population Division. Turin, ItalyDownload
Monica Boyd. 2004. International Labour Migration of Women: Past. Present and Future Challenges in North America and Europe. Expert Paper Series CM/MMW/2003/EP.2 (14 January 2004). United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women.Download
The above citation is also available online: www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/meetings/consult/Sweden03docs.htm
Monica Boyd. 2006. Invited Paper Presentation. “Women in International Migration: The Context of Exit and Entry for Empowerment and Exploitation.” Presented in the High-level panel on “The Gender Dimension of International Migration, United Nations, Commission on the Status of Women, March 2, New York City.Download
The above citation is also available online: https://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/csw50/statements/CSW%20HLP%20Monica%20Boyd.pdf
Monica Boyd and Elizabeth Grieco. 2003.
“Women and Migration: Incorporating Gender into International Migration Theory”. Migration Information Source (see: www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=106) Washington, D.C.: Migration Policy Institute.
Immigration, Ethnicity, Race and Language
Monica Boyd. 2015. Ethnicity and Race in Canada: Past and Present. Rogelio Saenz, Nestor Rodriguez and David M. Embrick (eds.) International Handbook of the Demography of Race and Ethnicity. Springer: New York, Pp. 23-45.Download
Monica Boyd. 2012. Language Proficiency, Immigrants and Civic Participation. Chapter 20 in Gregory Katsas (ed.) Current Issues in Sociology: Work and Minorities. Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research, Pp. 241-257.Download
Monica Boyd and Xingshan Cao. 2009. Immigrant Language Proficiency, Earnings, and Language Policies. Canadian Studies in Population 36(1-2):63-86.Download
Monica Boyd, Gustave Goldmann and Pamela White. 2000. Race in the Canadian Census. Pp. 33-54 in Leo Driedger and Shiva Halli (eds) Visible Minorities in Canada. Montreal and Toronto: McGill, Queens and Carleton University Press. Reprinted in Maria Wallis and Augie Fleras (eds.) Pp. 63-74. The Politics of Race in Canada: Readings in historical perspectives, contemporary realities, and future possibilities. Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press, 2009.Download
Monica Boyd. 2009. Language at Work: The Impact of Linguistic Enclaves on Immigrant Economic Integration. Vancouver: Canadian Labour Market and Skills Researcher Network (CLSRN) Working Paper No. 41.Download
The above citation is also available online: www.clsrn.econ.ubc.ca/workingpapers/CLSRN Working Paper no. 41 – Boyd.pdf
Immigrant Generations, including the 1.5 and Second Generations
Monica Boyd. 2017. Race and the Labour Market Integration of Second Generation Young Adults. Pp. 205-212 in Patrizia Albanese, Lorne Tepperman and Emily Alexander (eds.), Reading Sociology: Canadian Perspectives. (3rd edition) Toronto: Oxford Press.
Monica Boyd and Diana Worts. 2017. Comparing Immigrant Children in Canada and the United States: Similarities and Differences. In Vicki Esses and Don Abelson (eds.) Taking Stock of a Turbulent Period and Looking Ahead: Immigration to North America in the Early Years of the 21st Century. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, Chapter 8, Pp. 233-262.Download
Monica Boyd. 2017. Unpacking Second Generation Educational and Occupational Attainment in Canada. Pp. 47-65 in Robert Brym (ed.). Immigration and the Future of Canadian Society. Proceedings of the Second S.D. Clark Symposium on the Future of Canadian Society. Oakville: Rock’s Mills Press.Download
Monica Boyd and Siyue Tian. 2016. Educational and Labor Market Attainments of the 1.5- and Second-Generation Children of East Asian Immigrants in Canada. American Behavioral Scientist 60(5-6): 705-729.Download
Monica Boyd. 2009. Social Origins and the Educational and Occupational Achievements of the 1.5 and Second Generations. Canadian Review of Sociology 46(4): 339-369.Download
Ann Kim and Monica Boyd. 2009. Housing tenure and condos: Ownership by immigrant generations and the timing of arrival. Canadian Journal of Urban Research. 18(1): 47-73.Download
Monica Boyd 2008. Variations in Socio-economic Outcomes of Second Generation Young Adults. Canadian Diversity (journal of the Association for Canadian Studies) 6(2): 20-24Download
Monica Boyd and Stella Park. 2008. Who Lives at Home? Ethnic Variations among Second Generation Young Adults. Canadian Diversity (journal of the Association for Canadian Studies) 6(2): 42-46.Download
Monica Boyd. 2002. Educational Attainments of Immigrant Offspring: Success or Segmented Assimilation? International Migration Review 36 (Winter): 1037-1060.Download
Monica Boyd and Doug Norris. 2001. Who are the “Canadians”? Changing Census Responses, 1986-1996. Canadian Ethnic Studies. 33(1): 1-25.Download
Monica Boyd. 2000. Ethnic Variations in Young Adults Living with Parents. Canadian Studies in Population 27(1): 135-158.Download
Monica Boyd. 2000. Ethnicity and Immigrant Offspring. Pp. 137-154 in Madeline Kalbach and Warren Kalbach (eds.) Race and Ethnicity. Toronto: Harcourt Brace.Download
Intermarrriage
Monica Boyd and Amanda Couture-Carron. 2015. Cross-nativity Partnering and the Political Participation of Immigrant Generations. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 662(November): 188-206.Download
Sharon Lee and Monica Boyd. 2008. Marrying Out: The Marital Blending and Integration of Asians in North America. Social Science Research 37:311-329.Download
Demographic Themes
Monica Boyd. 2018. The Aging of the Population and Generational Shifts: Canada 2067. Spring/Summer. Special issue on “Canada 2067: A Nation’s Trajectory Canadian Issues.” (journal of the Association on Canadian Studies). Pp. 32-37.Download
The above citation is also available online: https://www.acs-aec.ca/img/boutiquePDF/citc-2018-spring-summer-rcw7j.pdf
Monica Boyd and Anne Li. 2003. May to December: Canadians in Age-discrepant Relationships. Canadian Social Trends, Fall. Pp. 29-33.Download
Monica Boyd and Doug Norris. 2000. Demographic Change and Young Adults Living with Parents, 1981-1996. Canadian Studies in Population 27(2):267-281.Download
Occupational Measures