Understanding Immigrant Women’s Health in Canada
Abstract
This learning note adopts an intersectional social determinants of health framework to examine immigrant women’s health in Canada. Intersectionality highlights how overlapping systems of inequality, such as gender, race, socio-economic position, and immigration status, interact to produce distinct health outcomes. Immigrant women experience migration differently than men and Canadian-born women due to gendered expectations, caregiving responsibilities, labour market inequities, and policy structures that
shape access to resources and services. As a result, immigrant women’s health cannot be adequately
understood without attention to both structural conditions and lived experience. Research over the past several decades consistently demonstrates that immigrant women face unique and persistent health
disparities linked to these intersecting factors.
Notes
This learning note adopts an intersectional social determinants of health framework to examine immigrant women’s health in Canada. Intersectionality highlights how overlapping systems of inequality, such as gender, race, socio-economic position, and immigration status, interact to produce distinct health outcomes. Immigrant women experience migration differently than men and Canadian-born women due to gendered expectations, caregiving […]