As per usual for mainstream scientific articles... shallow, lot's of hyperbole, very little info... Does anyone have a better source for this? Maybe a link to the paper?
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Uni. of Alberta researchers solve puzzle that baffled scientists for decades
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#12>> ... it was post-doctoral fellow Moe Rashidi, who immigrated from Iran, who deserves the credit. >> "He really did all the brilliant work,” Wolkow said. “Tremendous people are drawn here … and become fantastic new members of Canada.” That was one of the key takeaways here, a reminder of how important skilled immigration is to any country. That patent is owned by Canadians now.
Actually Canada is a weird one when it comes to immigration. Work based skilled immigration to Canada is certainly easier than the US. But if you want to marry a Canadian and want to move to Canada as an American citizen, you have to wait 2 years for the visa to get approved, and there is no fiance visa or anything to speed up the process.
Working on a spouse visa right now for me spouse, so I've got a slight clarification. As the non-citizen spouse of a Canadian you can VISIT (possibly by applying for a visitor visa like a normal tourist) and probably get that visitor visa extended as many time as you like while you wait for the Permanent Residency application to finish (average 2 year processing time). But you may not be able to work in Canada while you wait (there was some news about temporary work permits being issued to spouses who were inside of Canada while waiting for their PR).
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Skilled being the key word
Unskilled immigrants of today are parents of the skilled natural-born citizens of tomorrow.
Skilled parents are more likely to have skilled children. Even ignoring any possible hereditary intelligence correlation that might exist, having good job prospects will naturally heighten the chance of their children doing well.
There are also more than enough skilled people waiting to come here. With a backlog of skilled works the west has the opportunity to be selective (refugees are another subject). I personally support the idea that they should be more open to skilled workers. Although Canada already does a pretty good job compared to the US. Apparently the UK is looking into copying Canada's policies following Brexit.
But even here in Canada skilled immigrants often get associated with unskilled or illegal immigrants, or just generally misunderstood in terms of the value they bring, which (unfairly) puts pressure on reducing numbers.
Re: Uni. of Alberta researchers solve puzzle that baffled scientists for decades
#14>> ... it was post-doctoral fellow Moe Rashidi, who immigrated from Iran, who deserves the credit. >> "He really did all the brilliant work,” Wolkow said. “Tremendous people are drawn here … and become fantastic new members of Canada.” That was one of the key takeaways here, a reminder of how important skilled immigration is to any country. That patent is owned by Canadians now.
There's a surprisingly large number of Iranians doing great work in Canadian universities. I'm not particularly well-versed in why, but it seems that smart people have both means and motive to emigrate.
Iran is a pretty highly-developed country with a population of 83 million people, so I don't think that's too surprising.
There's a perception gap due to the western world's treatment of Iran. Maybe we shouldn't have overthrown their government and installed a dictator in the 1950s.
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#16>> ... it was post-doctoral fellow Moe Rashidi, who immigrated from Iran, who deserves the credit. >> "He really did all the brilliant work,” Wolkow said. “Tremendous people are drawn here … and become fantastic new members of Canada.” That was one of the key takeaways here, a reminder of how important skilled immigration is to any country. That patent is owned by Canadians now.
There's a surprisingly large number of Iranians doing great work in Canadian universities. I'm not particularly well-versed in why, but it seems that smart people have both means and motive to emigrate.
Can confirm this, and this spans all fields of study. They are doing great work. Canadian universities are choke full of immigrants of all kinds though (I'm one).
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#17Additional comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13337252
Re: Uni. of Alberta researchers solve puzzle that baffled scientists for decades
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Skilled being the key word
Unskilled immigrants of today are parents of the skilled natural-born citizens of tomorrow.
Not sure why you are being down-voted. I thought down-voting on HN is not for disagreement, but for bad behaviour. You bring up a valid opinion. It's like the arrogant crowd of HN is in favor of eugenics.
My parents came over to Canada as unskilled and my bro and I have masters level education and high salaries.
Also another HN thread a few weeks ago was on a Globe and Mail article titled "Chop Suey Nation". Article was about all the low-skilled chinese immigrants who start up restaurants in small towns - general theme is to get their children a better future.
I guess we are in the Trump era now.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unskilled immigrants of today are parents of the skilled natural-born citizens of tomorrow.
It's quite difficult to immigrate to Canada as an unskilled immigrant.
Unless you're in need of a country to safely live in and qualify as a refugee, in which case Canada actually tries to do its part to house you.
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#20>> ... it was post-doctoral fellow Moe Rashidi, who immigrated from Iran, who deserves the credit. >> "He really did all the brilliant work,” Wolkow said. “Tremendous people are drawn here … and become fantastic new members of Canada.” That was one of the key takeaways here, a reminder of how important skilled immigration is to any country. That patent is owned by Canadians now.
There's a surprisingly large number of Iranians doing great work in Canadian universities. I'm not particularly well-versed in why, but it seems that smart people have both means and motive to emigrate.
Iran's brain drain is the reason
http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2014/02/02/why_does_iran_ha...