This paper examines immigrant retention using a novel approach based on data contained in New Brunswick’s Medicare Registry database. To date, researchers studying immigrant retention in Canada have had only a few options with regard to suitable data, and each data source is characterized by limitations intrinsic to the nature of the data collection. These in turn raise caveats about the conclusions that can be drawn from analysis of those datasets. By demonstrating the utility and feasibility of another data source that to our knowledge has not previously been used for such a purpose, we are able to add new results to the existing literature, thereby improving our understanding of the extent of and characteristics underpinning immigrant retention in the host region as well as assess the robustness of published results based on data from other sources. The main objective of the paper is to improve the current understanding of secondary migration patterns of New Brunswick residents with the objective of increasing retention rates among vulnerable populations such as immigrants and refugees.

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NB中的移民保留：使用管理性Medicare Registry数据的分析

本文基于新不伦瑞克省Medicare Registry数据库中包含的数据，使用一种新颖的方法来研究移民的滞留情况。迄今为止，研究加拿大移民保留权的研究人员对于合适的数据只有很少的选择，并且每个数据源的特征都是数据收集的本质固有的局限性。这些反过来引起了关于可以从这些数据集的分析得出的结论的警告。通过证明另一个数据源的实用性和可行性，据我们所知，该数据源以前并未用于此目的，因此我们可以向现有文献中添加新的结果，从而提高了我们对在东道国保留移民的程度和特征的了解，并根据其他来源的数据评估了已发表结果的稳健性。本文的主要目的是增进对新不伦瑞克省居民二次移民模式的当前了解，以提高移民和难民等脆弱人群的保留率。