Visible minority immigrant

Visible minorities are defined based on the Employment Equity Act definition as persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour and include Chinese, South Asian, Black, Filipino, Latin American, Southeast Asian, Arab, West Asian, Japanese, Korean, other visible minorities and multiple visible minorities. Immigrant students include both first-generation immigrant youth (those born abroad) and second-generation immigrant youth (Canadian-born 15-year-olds who had at least one immigrant parent). The majority of both first- and second-generation immigrant youth were members of a visible minority group (66% and 52%, respectively). Visible minority immigrant youth accounted for 12% of Youth in Transition Survey participants while 75% were Canadian-born non-visible minority students.