J G Reitz

Biographic Data

ID22450
NAMEJ G Reitz
GIVEN NAMESJ G
FAMILY NAMEReitz
SIGNATUREREITZ J G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Toronto
ORCID0000-0002-5080-2592
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS57
TOTAL CITATIONS366
AUTHOR COUNT57
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX13

  • Reshaping the Mosaic: Canadian Immigration Policy in the Twenty-First Century

    Open AccessNinette Kelley, J G Reitz et al.BOOKReshaping the Mosaic2025

    A valuable resource for students, policymakers, advocates, and general readers, Reshaping the Mosaic offers a comprehensive analysis of Canadian immigration policy, exploring its historical foundations and contemporary challenges.

  • Second-generation education and earnings across birth cohorts: Ethno-racial variations in Canada

    Open AccessR Banerjee, J G Reitz et al.ARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies2025Cited by: 1References: 11

  • Challenging the legitimacy of exclusion: Muslim women and social boundaries in different headscarf policy contexts

    Emily Laxer, J G Reitz et al.ARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies2023

    Muslim women’s experience of social exclusion is pronounced across Western societies. This study assesses the expectation that legislated headscarf bans reinforce that experience, strengthening social boundaries. Our data source is interviews and focus groups with headscarf-wearing women in three distinct policy contexts: republican-secularist France, multicultural English-Canada, and intercultural Québec. We find that headscarf-based exclusion i…

  • The Role of Employers in Selecting Highly Skilled Immigrants: Potentials and Limitations

    Open AccessJ G ReitzARTICLEJournal of International…2023

  • Growth in High-Skilled Mexican Migration Northward: American and Canadian Destinations

    Open AccessJ G Reitz, Melissa Hernández JassoARTICLEMigraciones internacionales2023Cited by: 1References: 6

    As migration of university-educated Mexicans to both the United States and Canada has begun to increase, the greater opportunities Canada’s expanding points-based selection system offers for the highly skilled to become permanent residents highlights a question: which factors may induce high-skilled Mexicans to prefer Canadian destinations versus American? Using traditional migration theories to frame interviews with a volunteer sample of 40 youn…

  • National Cultural Frames and Muslims’ Economic Incorporation: A Comparison of France and Canada

    Open AccessJ G Reitz, Emily Laxer et al.ARTICLEInternational Migration Review2022Cited by: 2References: 49

    This article shows that differences in the economic incorporation of Muslims and other immigrant minorities in France and in Canada are mainly related to immigrant selectivity, labor market structures, and welfare transfers. Differences in ethno-specific penalties due to national cultural frames — related to multiculturalism in Canada and secular republicanism in France — are small, affect only the second generation, and are related both to minor…

  • Evaluating Foreign Skills: Effects of Credential Assessment on Skilled Immigrants’ Labour Market Performance in Canada

    R Banerjee, Feng Hou et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Policy2021Cited by: 7References: 8

    Formal educational qualification is increasingly built into immigrant selection systems in many countries, but in a global context, the transferability and portability of such qualifications has been questioned. In 2013, Canada introduced the requirement for a formal assessment of educational credential equivalence for applicants in the skilled worker category. In this study, we use a Canadian national immigration database and difference-in-diffe…

  • The significance of mixed family backgrounds for mainstream integration in Canada

    R Alba, J G ReitzARTICLENew Community2021Cited by: 6References: 32

    Recent research has shown that, in the U.S., individuals from mixed majority-minority families generally occupy positions in between whites and minorities but ‘lean’ white in the sense that they behave in ways more similar in key respects to white Americans than to minority ones; those who are partly black are an exception. Using the data from the 2002 Ethnic Diversity Survey, we examine here whether the same pattern appears in Canada. We employ …

  • Muslims' political and civic incorporation in France and Canada: Testing Models of Participation

    Emily Laxer, J G Reitz et al.ARTICLENew Community2020Cited by: 4References: 44

    This study examines the impact of national contexts on the political and civic incorporation of Muslim minorities by comparing France and Canada, with their sharply contrasting national integration ‘models’. Using large and comparable national surveys of immigrant minorities (French Trajectories and Origins Survey, 2008; Canadian Ethnic Diversity Survey, 2002), we analyse three interrelated dimensions of political and civic incorporation: acquiri…

  • Religion and integration among immigrant and minority youth

    I Kogan, Eric Fong et al.ARTICLENew Community2020Cited by: 22References: 76

    Although previous studies have examined the role of religion in immigrant integration, little systematic knowledge is available on how much and through which mechanisms religion facilitates or hinders immigrant socioeconomic and cultural integration. The papers in this collection explore the role of religion in the socioeconomic and cultural integration of immigrants and minorities from a cross-national perspective, with a particular focus on the…

  • Do Large Employers Treat Racial Minorities More Fairly? An Analysis of Canadian Field Experiment Data

    R Banerjee, J G Reitz et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Policy2018Cited by: 18References: 8

    Analysis of amended data from a large-scale Canadian employment audit study (Oreopoulos 2011) shows substantial organization size differences in discrimination against skilled applicants with Asian (Chinese, Indian, or Pakistani) names in the decision to call for an interview. In organizations with more than 500 employees, Asian-named applicants are 20 percent less likely to receive a callback; in smaller organizations, the disadvantage is nearly…

  • Emotional Stress and the Integration of Muslim Minorities in France and Canada

    Open AccessMarie-Pier Joly, J G ReitzARTICLEInternational Migration Review2018Cited by: 2References: 34

    This study examines theories of Muslim minority integration as these apply to republican France and multicultural Canada, using data on psychological distress as a key measure. Based on the 2001–2002 Canadian Community Health Survey and the 2008 French Enquête sur la Santé et la Protection Sociale, we find Muslim minorities experience higher levels of psychological distress than non-Muslims, not only in France but also in Canada. The Muslim diffe…

  • Muslims' social inclusion and exclusion in France, Québec, and Canada: Does National Context Matter

    J G Reitz, Peter Šimon et al.ARTICLENew Community2017Cited by: 14References: 30

    This article compares the social experiences of Muslim minorities in three contexts – France, Québec, and English Canada – each reflecting a different approach to immigrant integration. France’s republican model emphasises cultural assimilation and the exclusion of religion from the public sphere; Canada’s multicultural model advocates official recognition of minority cultures; Québec shares Canada’s tradition of large-scale permanent immigration…

  • Unionization and Income Growth of Racial Minority Immigrants in Canada: A Longitudinal Study

    Open AccessAnil Verma, Anil Kumar Verma et al.ARTICLEInternational Migration Review2016References: 32

    This study examines the effect of unionization on the labor market integration of newly arrived immigrants in Canada. We find that non-white recent immigrants gain access to unionized jobs at a slower rate than do white recent immigrants. The effect of unionization on earnings is somewhat lower for non-white recent immigrants than for white recent immigrants. These findings are based on growth curve modeling of longitudinal data from the Survey o…

  • Towards empirical comparison of immigrant integration across nations

    J G ReitzARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies2016Cited by: 1

    The ambitious attempt by Richard Alba and Nancy Foner to provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of immigrant integration across several immigration nations - namely the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and the Netherlands - concludes that low-status immigrant groups are marginal across all of these countries, and overall none of them stands out as particularly positive or negative. At the same time, some countries pe…

  • Protesting headscarf ban: A path to becoming more French? A case study of 'Mamans toutes égales' and 'Sorties scolaires avec nous

    Alexandra Kassir, J G ReitzARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies2016Cited by: 8References: 11

    Muslim protests of French headscarf policies might be expected to signify and reinforce a desire to remain apart from mainstream society. This case study of a group of Muslim mothers protesting the 2012 'Chatel circular' finds the opposite. The protest reflects a positive attachment to French identity, culture and values and, in many ways, takes the form of a feminist movement. The study is based on semi-structured interviews, focus groups and pa…

  • Gender equity in Canada's newly growing religious minorities

    J G Reitz, Mai B Phan et al.ARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies2015Cited by: 15References: 25

    Using data from the 2001 Canadian census and the 2002 Ethnic Diversity Survey, we find greater gender inequality in labour force participation among the newly growing religious minorities in Canada relative to mainstream Canadians. This gender inequality is only partly conditioned by the presence of young children. Although greatest among Muslim immigrants, other groups including Hindus and Sikhs also exhibit greater gender inequality in labour f…

  • Immigrant Skill Utilization: Trends and Policy Issues

    Open AccessJ G Reitz, Josh Curtis et al.ARTICLEJournal of International…2014Cited by: 22References: 17

  • The distinctiveness of Canadian immigration experience

    J G ReitzARTICLEPatterns of Prejudice2012Cited by: 32

    Canada's experience with immigration has been comparatively positive and mass immigration has considerable popular support within the country. The distinctive Canadian policy model—including large numbers with skill-based selection, multiculturalism and other policies aimed at promoting integration, and provincial autonomy—deserves international attention. However, Canada's success with immigration is only partly related to its policies and these…

  • Comparisons of the success of racial minority immigrant offspring in the United States, Canada and Australia

    Open AccessJ G Reitz, Heather Zhang et al.ARTICLESocial Science Research2011Cited by: 17References: 19

  • Race, Religion, and the Social Integration of New Immigrant Minorities in Canada

    Open AccessJ G Reitz, Rupa Banerjee et al.ARTICLEInternational Migration Review2009Cited by: 23References: 27

    The social integration of Canada's new religious minorities is determined more by their racial minority status than by their religious affiliation or degree of religiosity, according to results from Statistics Canada's 2002 Ethnic Diversity Survey. Interview questions tap life satisfaction, affective ties to Canada, and participation in the wider community. Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Hindus are slower to integrate socially, mainly because the…

  • Immigrant Employment Success in Canada, Part I: Individual and Contextual Causes

    Open AccessJ G ReitzARTICLEJournal of International…2007

  • Immigrant Employment Success in Canada, Part II: Understanding the Decline

    Open AccessJ G ReitzARTICLEJournal of International…2007Cited by: 24References: 6

  • In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration

    Open AccessJ G ReitzREVIEWThe Canadian Journal of Sociology2007References: 33

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  • Race and Ethnicity: Finding Identities and Equalities, and: Seeing Ourselves: Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Culture (review)

    Open AccessJ G ReitzARTICLEThe Canadian Journal of Sociology2005

    Reviewed by: Race and Ethnicity: Finding Identities and Equalities, and: Seeing Ourselves: Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Culture Jeffrey G. Reitz Leo Driedger , Race and Ethnicity: Finding Identities and Equalities, Second Edition, Don Mills ON: Oxford University Press, 2003, 318pp. Carl E. James , Seeing Ourselves: Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Culture, Third Edition, Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing, 2003, 340 pp. Both of these books, i…