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Location Edmonton, Alberta Community organizations NA Open-access – No Integration timeline At what point during the integration process the study was conducted? NA Gaps identified Lack of culturally congruent care for immigrant populations seeking mental health care, and lack of culturally competent inter...
Gaps identified Most studies on immigrant experiences focus on challenges and immigrants’ sense of exclusion rather than their resilience Key recommendations NA Key findings The youth pointed to African ethnic community associations and religious groups as sites and means of inclusion because they provide 1) spaces...
Key populations NA Gaps identified NA Key findings Immigration is an important source of labour force growth. Two programs, the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) and the Canadian Experience Class (CEC), have seen an increase in both the number and proportion of immigrants admitted in recent years, and the evidence t...
Integration timeline At what point during the integration process the study was conducted? Females: The length of stay in Canada ranged from eleven months to one year. Children: The length of stay in Canada ranged from five months to one year. Open-access – Yes https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/jcie/index.p...
Key findings African immigrants engage in a variety of parenting practices that include those informed by their cultural background as well as ‘new’ approaches, adopted in Canada. The authors describe three approaches to parenting/child discipline: corporal (i.e. spanking and pinching, and more severe pract...
Key recommendations NA Gaps identified Immigrant women experience challenges when seeking employment in Canada Key findings Immigrant women rely on family, ethnic, and religious networks as a “survival” resource at the initial stage of their settlement and seeking employment. But it doesn’t always help them to achi...
Location Alberta Key recommendations Governments and industry need to develop more holistic approaches to recruiting underrepresented groups to overcome labour market segmentation Key populations Temporary foreign worker Key findings Employers in the construction industry in Alberta use TFWs as a fluid, secondary...
Location Calgary, Alberta Key recommendations More research is needed to understand how physicians make decisions about lab testing and who/how they refer for tests. Key populations General population Key findings There is a correlation between demographic characteristics and disease burden – this is in ac...
Key populations Immigrant social workers (female and male) Gaps identified Lack of research that addresses gender-based experiences of immigrant social workers Key recommendations Remove barriers to social workers’ professional and personal adaptation in the following areas: “language, employment, housing, daycare,...
Open-access – Yes https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12134-015-0454-9.pdf Location Calgary, Alberta Key recommendations Supporting the needs of immigrant men through cultural and age-sensitive programs, as they experience a crisis of masculinity after migration; develop pre-migration courses that...
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