We know that Canada and the U.S. are very opposite to each other in terms of their policy but both these countries are still highly accepting of migrants.
Canada is the world’s most accepting country for migrants. An analytics and advisory company based in the U.S. conducted the survey which includes 145 countries and about 1000 people from each country are surveyed.
Researchers contacted these people telephonically or conducted face-to-face interviews. The question put up by the researchers from the people is whether is they think that migrants who are living in their countries, becoming their neighbors, marrying into their families is good or bad.
Depending upon this question, an index of answers was created, scoring each country on a scale of 0-9. Countries scoring higher grades show that the population is more accepting of migrants and lower grades show that country or population was less accepting of the migrants.
Canada scored the highest grade which shows that it is the most accepting country of migrants. Canada scored 8.46 out of 9.0 points.
The U.S. ranked 6th with a score of 7.95 out of 9.0 points.
Now, these both countries have increased their ranks in 2017 in which Canada was the 4th most accepting country and the U.S. was the 9th most accepting country of migrants. Till 2017, both these countries have opposite immigration policies. Canada has pushed for more immigration while the U.S. government has reduced it but still, public opinion on migration seems positive in both the countries.
Here are the three questions survey from Canadians and U.S. residents:
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- Migrants living in your country?: Canadian acceptance was 94% and U.S. acceptance was 87%
- Migrants living in your neighborhood? : Canadian acceptance was 95% and U.S acceptance was 90%
- Migrants marrying into your family? : Canadian acceptance was 91% and U.s acceptance 85%
This report was written by Neli Esipova, Julie Ray, and Dato Tsabutashvili drew to compare the results of Canada and the U.S. This survey showed that Canadians are slightly higher than those of U.S. residents.
In the U.S., people who approved of Trump were less accepting of migrants than those who did not. Whereas, Canadians who approved of Trudeau were more accepting of migrants than those who disapproved of him.
Those who approved of Trump in the U.S. were less accepting of migrants, and those who approved of Trudeau in Canada were more accepting.
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- Political Divides on Migration in Canada, U.S.
- Migrant Acceptance Index U.S. Migrant Acceptance Index Canada
- Approve of Trump 7.10 Approve of Trudeau 8.73
- Disapprove of Trump 8.59 Disapprove of Trudeau 8.21
- Approve of the country’s leadership 7.10 Approve of country’s leadership 8.59
- Disapprove of the country’s leadership 8.49 Disapprove of country’s leadership 8.31
Here is the Migrant Acceptance Index used to quantify approval levels by political slant. Higher scores show higher acceptance towards migrants.
Through this survey, researchers found that in the U.S. there are differences in the acceptance of the migrants among those who personally identify most with their city and country compared with those who identify most with their race or religion, and in Canada there were no differences in the acceptance of migrants.
In Canada, there was, “no real statistical differences by age group,”. The 15-29 age group scored 8.32 indicated that the difference was not significant because of smaller sample sizes.
Migrant acceptance is higher among those who are living in urban areas and who have more education.
According to the migrant acceptance index, the 10 most acceptance countries of migrants are:
Canada, Iceland, New Zealand, Australia, Sierra Leone, US, Burkina Faso, Sweden, Chad.