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Abstract The present article analyzes the importance of the immigration component –within its population dynamics– for a traditional immigrant’s recipient country, such as Canada. The figures analysis provided by the census carried out in that country in the year 2011 evidenced that the Canadian population´s growth, as well as the necessary levels uphold of the economically active population as to the economic reproduction, largely depends on the steady arrival of new immigrants. That is why the Canadian policy regulating the entrance of new permanent residents poses very interesting features in terms of the management of immigration flows, depending on the needs of the country´s development. The Cuban immigration case study makes possible to illustrate, through a specific country, the way the Canadian migratory regulations largely influences the socio demographic features of a determined group of immigrants, as well as the consequences, not only from a population´s viewpoint, but also in terms of the loss of the human potential such movements may bring about to the traditional sender countries, as the Cuban case.

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