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Community organizations NA Gaps identified NA Key recommendations NA Key findings Refugees maintained ties both in their home-country and Canada. Although the trauma associated with Sudan’s Civil War continued to haunt the participants, they insisted on creating ties in their sending country. We found that engagi...
Community organizations: Literacy, English and Academic Development (LEAD) Program at the Calgary Board of Education (CBE) Future research / gaps identified: Interviews and discussions were conducted in English only. Results cannot be generalized to refugee youth in Alberta as a whole. Integration timeli...
Location Alberta Community organizations NA Key populations Chinese immigrant youth in schools Key recommendations Teaching practice needs to be decolonised to emphasizing valuing indigenous forms of knowledge, including the knowledge of immigrant students Key findings Chinese immigrant youth face discrimination b...
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’...
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...
Community organizations: n/a Integration timeline: Key populations: second generation Western African youth living in Edmonton or Calgary Key recommendations: Socialize second generation children/youth into the cultural communities of their parents, alongside their Canadian socialization. Create culturally re...
Key findings This paper explores the sense of belonging of first-generation Francophone sub-Saharan African immigrants in Alberta towards their co-ethnic communities, Canadian Francophone community, as well as the broader Canadian population. The findings show that while the Francophone sub-Saharan African immigrants w...
Open-access – No Location Edmonton, Alberta Community organizations NA Integration timeline At what point during the integration process the study was conducted? Participants: 19 males and 17 females with an average age of 19 years old (aged between 15 and 25). Of these, 21 participants migrated with their parent...
Open-access – No Location Alberta Key recommendations NA Key populations Union officials, TFWs, employers, government officials and TFW advocates Key findings This paper explores the relationship between unions and temporary foreign worker (TFWs) — specifically how union members react to TFWs and how their reac...
Key recommendations NA Key findings Ethno-racial organizations were more effective than mainstream organizations because they were more closely connected with and responsive to the ethnic community’s needs. Chinese community organizations bridged the gap in social services for Chinese immigrants. As transitional inst...