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Sponsorship... For Better or For Worse
The Impact of Sponsorship on the Equality Rights of Immigrant Women

Table féministe francophone de concertation provinciale de l'Ontario

Sponsorship... For Better or For Worse

Andrée Côté
Michèle Kérisit
Marie-Louise Côté

The research and publication of this study were funded by Status of Women Canada's Policy Research Fund. This document expresses the views of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official policy of Status of Women Canada or the Government of Canada.

March 2001

Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data

Côté, Andrée

Sponsorship…For Better or for Worse [computer file]: The Impact of Sponsorship on the Equality Rights of Immigrant Women

Issued also in French under title: Qui prends pay…L'impact du parrainage sur les droits à l'égalité des femmes immigrantes
Issued also in print format.
Mode of access: WWW site of Status of Women Canada.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 0-662-29642-7 [Print format]
Cat. No. SW21-54/2000E [Print format]

1. Women immigrants - Law and legislation - Canada.
2. Immigrant sponsorship - Canada.
3. Women immigrants - Canada - Social conditions.
4. Canada - Emigration and immigration.

1. Kérisit, Michèle.
2. Côté, Marie-Louise.
3. Canada. Status of Women Canada.
4. Title.

Project Manager: Nora Hammell and Vesna Radulovic, Status of Women Canada
Publishing Co-ordinator: Mary Trafford, Status of Women Canada
Editing & Layout: PMF Editorial Services Inc. / PMF Services de rédaction inc.
Translation: PMF Editorial Services Inc. / PMF Services de rédaction inc.
Translation Co-ordinator: Monique Lefebvre, Status of Women Canada
Translation Quality Control: Serge Thériault, Status of Women Canada

For more information contact: 

Research Directorate
Status of Women Canada
123 Slater Street, 10th Floor
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 1H9
Telephone: (613) 995-7835
Facsimile: (613) 957-3359
TDD: (613) 996-1322
E-mail: research@swc-cfc.gc.ca

Members of the steering committee: 

Marie-Carmel Jean-Jacques, Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women
(Association des enseignants franco-ontariens)
Louise-Renée Loé, Communauté des femmes africaines noires francophones (COFANF)
Angéline Ndayizigamiye, Hamilton-Wentworth / Niagara Community Health Centre
Florence Ngenzebuhoro, Hamilton-Wentworth / Niagara Community Health Centre
Ghislaine Sirois, Action ontarienne contre la violence faite aux femmes

Project co-ordinator:
Andrée Côté

Research co-ordinators:
Andrée Côté et Michèle Kérisit

Research and writing:
Andrée Côté, Michèle Kérisit and Marie-Louise Côté

Research assistants and interviewers:
Malika Benson, Laïla Demirdache, Marlyse Dumel, Geneviève Guindon, Marguerite
Mbonimpa, Marie-Béatrice Ngaba, Florence Ngenzebuhoro and Anne Michelle McNulty