Jamaica continues to expertise vital mind drain shedding its professionals and expert employees to Canada. Jamaica had the most important variety of migrants to the North American nation in 2023.
Of the 4,340 Jamaicans granted everlasting resident standing in Canada final yr, 78 per cent, or 3,390, had been within the working-age inhabitants of 15-64 years, in response to the Planning Institute of Jamaica’s 2023 Financial and Social Survey Jamaica.
The 30-34 age group had the most important proportion of admissions of everlasting residents from Jamaica, accounting for 13.5 per cent. Jamaicans from the 0-4 and 60 and over age teams constituted a small proportion of migrants (4.9 per cent).
The report, which seems at developments throughout the Jamaican society and economic system, stated 6.9 per cent of those that migrated to Canada had been within the professionals, senior officers and technicians’ class – the most important proportion of everlasting migrants.
This was adopted by service, store and market gross sales employees at 1.9 per cent. The report stated that 87.2 per cent of the everlasting migrants’ occupations had been unknown.
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“There isn’t something uncommon about migrants being kind of cream of the crop. The very essence of migrants is that they’re a bit of extra bold than different individuals. Usually, individuals stay the place they’re. So upward mobility doesn’t happen to a fantastic extent in any society in any respect,” sociologist Dr Orville Taylor stated of the newest growth.
He stated that individuals who migrate usually have the requisites and conditions to take action for nations comparable to Canada and the USA (US).
The report didn’t notice the determine for Jamaicans who migrated to the US final yr. Nevertheless, obtainable information from United States Citizenship and Immigration Services point out that 20,200 Jamaicans had been naturalized between October 2022 and September 2023.
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Jamaica listed as seventh among the top 10 countries from which residents had been naturalized for 2023.
The report stated the US remained the primary vacation spot of alternative for Jamaican migrants, relative to Canada and the UK.
