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“I feel like I’m just nowhere”: Causes and Challenges of Status Loss in Canada

Community organizations NA Location Alberta Key recommendations Need for systemic changes to immigration policy to address the transition from TFW status to living without status in Canada Need to address the issue of human trafficking for the purposes of labour in Canada Creating better avenues for recourse...

“You Can’t Solve Precarity With Precarity.” The New Alberta Workers Program: An Interview With Jared Matsunaga-Turnbull, Executive Director of the Alberta Workers’ Health Centre

Location Edmonton, Alberta; Calgary, Alberta Community organizations NA Integration timeline At what point during the integration process the study was conducted? NA Key populations Temporary foreign workers Gaps identified OHS is a complaint-driven system that is often not accessible/available to precarious worke...

Transnationalism, parenting, and child disciplinary practices of African immigrants in Alberta, Canada

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 practices as kick...

Living with Compromised Legal Status: Irregular Temporary Foreign Workers in Alberta and the Importance of Imagining, Strategizing, and Inter-Provincial Legal Consciousness

Location Edmonton, Alberta Key recommendations NA Key populations Three Filipino migrants with either no status or with compromised paperwork to support their status (see p. 1) Key findings The migrants with no or irregular migration status engaged in various strategies to survive while they were going through un...

‘And when a certain health issue happen, they try to cover it’: Stakeholder perspectives on the health of temporary foreign workers and their families

Community organizations NA Location Alberta Integration timeline At what point during the integration process the study was conducted? NA Key populations Temporary foreign workers; Service providers Key findings Temporary Foreign Workers experience barriers in accessing mental health services; mental health challe...

Uninsured Maternity Patients in Calgary: Local Trends and Survey of Health Care Workers

Location Calgary, Alberta Key recommendations Greater education for healthcare providers regarding providing care to migrants without insurance Key populations Migrants without medical insurance (undocumented, international students etc.) Key findings There has been an increase in the number of insured maternity...

Migrant Social Workers’ Experiences of Professional Adaptation in Alberta Canada: A Comparative Gender Analysis

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,...