This article traces how a language and soft skills training approach to Canadian immigrant integration emerged with Canada's shift towards a post-industrial tertiary economy. In this economy, soft skills index characteristics of ideal workers that fit the needs of Canada's post-Fordist labour regime. It examines how skills' training is not viewed…

Many of the current policy debates in Europe focus on what kind of "knowledge economy" or "knowledge society" would be best in the future if it is to combine both economic competitiveness and social cohesion. Should European economies move increasingly towards the so-called Anglo-Saxon model of flexible labour markets and high…

This paper analyzes the concepts of immigrant assimilation and integration. On the basis of factor analysis it distinguishes between objective integration and subjective integration. Objective integration is defined as actual involvement in the host country's way of life, educational, occupational and economic advancement, and participation in…