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Open-access – Yes https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330801706_Sense_of_community_belonging_among_immigrants_perspective_of_immigrant_service_providers Key recommendations A multiprong approach is needed to foster different avenues of community belonging for immigrants; mainstream organizations should tak...
Key recommendations Same-sex professional interpreters are required for medical appointments; Kurmanji-speaking interpreters are needed because they’re either functionally illiterate in Arabic or they’re not comfortable speaking in Arabic due to their traumatic interactions with their Arabic-speaking captor...
Location Fort McMurray, Alberta Integration timeline At what point during the integration process the study was conducted? NA Key populations Live-in caregivers Open-access – Yes https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/41bae783-88f6-4844-857c-dc0026f0f889/view/7e03de55-9c7b-4b08-bbdb-dbb5aa1ac4e9/Jackson_Emma_N...
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...
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...
Community organizations: n/a Integration timeline: not defined Future research / gaps identified: Include a more diverse sample of participants (e.g. only 2/14 participants were female). Expand research so it can be applied to policy and procedural changes. Key findings: Barriers to re-credentialing and ent...
Location Calgary, Alberta Key recommendations Better advertising of existing programs and services is essential. Different kinds of services and supports are needed for professional and non-skilled migrants. Key findings Calgarians who are born outside Canada sometimes do not access migration services during...
Gaps identified Employment: • Earnings of newcomers involved in various sectors of the economy, and the influence of Edmonton’s boom and bust cycle on this. • Experiences of economically successful immigrant groups and the strategies that worked for them to transition out of low-income socioeconomic lev...
Community organizations: n/a Integration timeline: not defined Key findings: 1) Neoliberalism greatly influences available services and funding, although many respondents reported the need to go past funding mandates and engage in more advocacy and anti-racism work. 2) Immigrant professionals grappled with arriving...
Community organizations: CommunityWise Resource Centre Future research / gaps identified: n/a Integration timeline: n/a Key recommendations: Organizations should complete this initial self assessment, and then complete the more comprehensive assessments of organizational racism linked in this document. Open acc...
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