I have written before that US immigration policy is dated – we focus on country based quotas, family reunification, lotteries, and there is way too much angst about the social cost of Mexican migrant labor. We have lost sight of an increasingly mobile global workforce which does not necessarily want to immigrate but wants to spend productive working years in the most welcoming environments. Young Irish who move around every few years, young Indians who come here for an advanced degree and a few years of experience then move back are the new “immigrant”. They can do what my late father-in-law, Tom could not do in 1915 – they can be in a new country in a matter of hours. Tom’s parents took 2 months to move back from Los Angeles to Ireland.
Last week I sat down to lunch with this new breed of “immigrant”. Bruce Stewart, my colleague at Gartner, is now Director at the iSchool in Toronto. He is a Canadian but spent years in Connecticut and then the Netherlands with Gartner. He then spent a few years in Vancouver, which distance wise and culturally, might as well be another country. He was telling me about the point system Canada uses to attract specific types of qualified talent – successfully if you see how multi-cultural both Toronto and Vancouver are. It is estimated in both cities, half the population was not born in Canada. Bruce, however, feels that Canada could do better. When an immigrant lands, there is little effort to help them integrate…
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