Immigration: University Of British Columbia

Government Oversight Dept: The authors of the study, which was released Tuesday by the University of British Columbia School of Nursing, are calling for government oversight of homestays, according to Globe And Mail. The study, the first of its kind in Canada, surveyed health and risk-taking behaviour of 3,000 Asian homestay students in Grades 7 through 12 in British Columbia and compared with immigrant or Canadian-born Asian students, the researchers found that homestay students in British Columbia are up to six times more likely to take cocaine and three times more likely to binge-drink. They are more sexually active and skip school more often. Nearly a quarter of homestay girls reported being sexually abused, versus 9 per cent of their Canadian peers. “There’s no policies, there’s no regulation, there’s no standards, there’s no reporting,” said lead author Sabrina Wong. “If we think about normal adolescent behaviour, about what they need, there’s something they’re missing here.” Dr. Wong estimates that homestays bring in $60-million a year in B.C. alone, though other estimates are in the billion-dollar range. As reported in the news.
@t binge drink, homestay students