Immigration patterns, Racial Diversity and Age Diversity
Immigration patterns, Racial Diversity and Age Diversity The other big thing we're seeing in the news today is how COVID-19 has changed work patterns and immigration patterns and how it impacts racial diversity and age diversity of the workforce. One of the big trends is that people from Brazil, India, Bangladesh and the Philippines are traveling to places like the Middle East, UK, Canada and the US to work. Many of them stay there, become permanent residents and become citizens. But with COVID-19, we've seen a bottoming-out of certain parts of the economy, particularly low salary jobs. Countries have to get their economies kick-started and growing again. There are two ways to do that. First, you increase your productivity per citizen, or you bring in more people through immigration so your GDP grows. Canada set an immigration target of 400,000 people in the next year. This means that they want to bring in 1% of the population to apply for permanent residence and eventually become citizens. That's a big number. Canada, obviously, has a track record of integrating people well, and they also have a points-based system so they’re sure that the people they invite in have the wherewithal and…