title: Foreign students, visitors and immigration to British Columbia.
abstract: "This report has provided a brief outline of business immigration to Canada and to British Columbia from several source countries in the Asian Pacific Rim.  The importance of business immigration to Canada in general, and British Columbia in particular, is [examined].... Even with the limited data currently available, this brief study indicates a very high statistical relationship between business immigration and other less formal and less permanent movements of people such as student flows and visitors."
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D001208:Asia; D001519:Behavior; D002170:Canada; D003132:Commerce; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D009042:Motivation; D009656:North America; D010139:Pacific Islands; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011584:Psychology; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Americas; Asia; Behavior; Canada; Commerce; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; International Migration--determinants; Labor Migration; Macroeconomic Factors; Migration; Motivation; North America; Northern America; Oceania; Population; Population Dynamics; Psychological Factors