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Key recommendations There is a need for culturally and religiously sensitive approaches to teaching; Curricula should be more inclusive and bias removed Key findings Teachers lack awareness about the needs of Muslim and immigrant children; There is a lack of cultural sensitivity in schools; there are ‘good’ and ‘bad’...
Future research / gaps identified: not stated Key recommendations: 1) Expand education and professional development for teachers at the postsecondary and workplace level to include diversity, basic ESL literacy, and trauma-informed practices. 2) Improve coordination of community services and the school system to bett...
Location Edmonton, Alberta Integration timeline At what point during the integration process the study was conducted? The average length of residency was 22.5 years. Key Recommendations Culturally competent service provision by mainstream services (including removing cost barriers, improving translation and accessib...
Key populations Syrian refigees Location Edmonton, Alberta; Calgary, Alberta; Lethbridge, Alberta; Medicine Hat, Alberta; Red Deer, Alberta Key recommendations Strengthen social connections among refugees to find employment; access resources and express identity; address systemic issues around racism and discrimina...
Key recommendations Healthcare education for recent immigrants Gaps identified There is a need for healthcare education programs and a strong supportive system to facilitate better health choices and encourage health care service use for recent immigrants Key findings Healthcare choices are influenced by pre and post m...
Gaps identified NA Key findings Broad capitalist ideologies affect the conditions of labour that TFWs experience The demands of ‘work’ can contradict the requirements of ‘home’, and threaten workers’ abilities to maintain important social relationships and articulate aspects of their cultural identities Alberta...
Location Calgary, Alberta Key recommendations NA Key populations Migrant women Key findings Conditions for violence against and by racialized women in Canada are facilitated by white settler colonial and neoliberal discourses and practices that justify the criminalization of indigenous and racialized Others; the...
Integration timeline Newcomers (not defined) Location Calgary Alberta Open access: Yes Community organizations Centre for Newcomers Future research/gaps identified: This is a relatively new area of work that needs more program development, evaluation and research to increase supports for LGBTQ+...
Location Lethbridge, Alberta Community organizations NA Key populations Filipino immigrants and migrants Key findings Filipina immigrant and migrant women find spaces of belonging in Lethbridge through affordable housing and community connections as well as employment; they consider leaving Lethbridge for other op...
Location Edmonton, Alberta Community organizations NA Integration timeline At what point during the integration process the study was conducted? NA Key recommendations Provision of permanent residency to foreign workers Gaps identified The author points to the gap in multiculturalism policy of Canada, arguing that...