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Community organizations: n/a Future research / gaps identified: 1) Conduct future research on specific groups within IMO women, e.g. newly arrived older immigrants, those with lower socioeconomic status, those experiencing language and cultural barriers, etc. 2) Understanding the perspectives of the family and socia...
Community organizations: n/a Key recommendations: Expand the gardening space and create new community gardens for more newcomers. Alter policies that allocate most of the produce to the food bank, such that the newcomer gardeners themselves can take home more of their harvest. Provide formal recognition for vol...
Location: Calgary, AB Community organizations: n/a Future research / gaps identified: n/a Integration timeline: Not defined Key findings: 1) Feelings of belonging and exclusion post-migration are described as “being located in the country and yet also being an outsider is always posing a tension between b...
Community organizations: n/a Future research / gaps identified: Explore the experiences of Muslim youth from different age groups, socioeconomic backgrounds, and geographic locations in Canada Conduct quantitative studies to provide statistical data to support the findings of this study Identify the impact of a...
Community organizations: WinSport Key populations: newcomers to Canada participating in an introduction to winter sport program at WinSport in Calgary Key recommendations: Alter the WNP and other newcomer introductory sport programs to intentionally focus on building social connections Avoid the pitfall of thes...
Future research / gaps identified: 1) Popular approaches to studying international students are rarely attuned to intra-group variation based on race and ethnicity. 2) This study is among the first to foreground such analyses in Canadian research on international students. More research of this kind is needed. Key fi...
Key recommendations: The results also indicate that programs such as IPLAY can have important and positive impacts on youth participants, and how future programming may be able to adapt to further support the growing demographic of newcomer youth. Location: Calgary, AB Community organizations: 1) WinSport 2) CCIS...
Community organizations: n/a Integration timeline: Less than 10 years since arrival Key recommendations: To facilitate health social connections for newcomers, policies, organizations, private companies and individual neighbourhoods should work together to forge a sense of familiarity and reduce feelings of margina...
Community organizations: Edmonton Community Foundation Integration timeline: not defined Key populations: African creatives in Alberta, particularly those whose art is through Afrobeats music and/or dance Key recommendations: n/a Future research / gaps identified: The director and his production company, Media...
Key populations: Syrian refugees who now live in Edmonton, AB Integration timeline: arrival in Canada in 2015 up to the first half of 2017 Open access: Yes Location: Edmonton, AB Key recommendations: Use the findings from this thesis to improve social bridging supports for refugees. Future research / gaps ide...
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