The adjustment bureau

With a staff of 12-15 people who handle all sorts of questions in languages such as Arabic, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog and Punjabi, the settlement workers - a term [Harvinder Sandhu] admits is a bit vague - offer the type of advice that helps immigrants deal with a Canadian bureaucracy that c...

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Published inLeader (Surrey, B.C. 1998)
Main Author Boaz, Joseph
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Surrey, B.C Torstar Syndication Services, a Division of Toronto Star Newspapers Limited 05.08.2012
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Sandhu, Harvinder
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Summary:With a staff of 12-15 people who handle all sorts of questions in languages such as Arabic, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog and Punjabi, the settlement workers - a term [Harvinder Sandhu] admits is a bit vague - offer the type of advice that helps immigrants deal with a Canadian bureaucracy that can seem Byzantine. It's no urban myth that there are Vancouver-area taxi drivers who were doctors in India, says Sandhu, adding many educated people formerly employed in respected fields end up in menial jobs. Offered as an outreach program at North Delta's George Mackie Library and Surrey's City Centre Library, the service runs at the Fleetwood, Guildford and North Surrey Recreation Centres, and will expand into the Newton, South Surrey and Cloverdale Recreation Centres in September with a Youth-Can program to assist youths aged 15-25 who may be at risk of falling through the cracks in the Canadian education system.
ISSN:1490-7526