Children seem to be the primary issue for both those individuals who are making decision to immigrate and those institutions that deciding on whether to accept somebody or not as immigrants. At least it should be so, because down the road the fate of immigrant children would define the emotional and economical well-being of immigrant families and end effects of immigration on the receiving society.
             The overall impression is that both sides of immigration equation certain about how absorption into Canadian society will benefit immigrant youth, parents and the recipient state. But immigration decision makers all together are kind of reluctant to ask themselves detailed questions about what social and cultural gaps particular immigrant youth would or would not be able to bridge in a new environment. In other words how would the resultant blend or solution of social values of immigrant youth come out? Would they meet the expectations of interested sides? Is this mixture something newcomers' family has been dreaming about or at least will be able to cope with? What would the new members of Canadian society bring to it? How would they change Canadian social landscape and image of the country?
             There is a tendency to ignore these questions on the grounds of the relatively successful integration of most previous waves of immigration to Canada. But on one hand, the objectivity of this position is highly questionable, as it comes already from an immigrant-modified point of view that might have nearly nothing in common with the pattern of society in the first place. On the other hand, many previous immigrants were coming from socially and developmentally similar societies. Along with the US modern Canadian society has been critically changing for the last 20-30 years. It developed a civilization model, which is radically different from that of the countries majority of immigrants coming from. This puts social integration of immi...