Immigration: Binge Drink

Columbia Study Dept: The authors of the University of British Columbia study want government oversight for the unregulated home-stay industry. There were 18,200 foreign high-school students studying in Canada in 2008, but no way of telling how many lived in home-stays, which are privately run and not monitored by any external agency, according to Globe And Mail. In May, police raided an apartment operating as a brothel in downtown Vancouver. They discovered a 17-year-old home-stay student from China and two other women. The apartment’s owner, Xiao Jin Zhao, was charged with procuring a person to become a prostitute and home-stay students also binge-drink and smoke more, skip school more, and are more sexually active than their immigrant or Canadian-born Asian counterparts. The study, the first of its kind in Canada, tracked health and risk-taking among 3,000 Asian home-stay students in grades 7 to 12 in B.C. “There’s no policies, there’s no regulation, there’s no standards, there’s no reporting,” Dr. Sabrina Wong, lead author, says. As reported in the news.
@t university of british columbia, asian counterparts