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 captors
Gaps id...
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...
Key recommendations
Call to recognition of foreign education and skills
Key findings
Visible minority immigrants are significantly more likely to experience difficulty finding work because of a lack of Canadian experience.
Over 50 percent of immigrants experience job status decline after their arrival in Canada.
Newc...
Location
Edmonton, Alberta; Winnipeg, Manitoba
Key recommendations
Provision of more funding and programs to make adjustments among Canadian-born employers and workplaces.
Key populations
Front-line employment counsellors, program managers, and executive directors of immigrant-serving oranizations
Key findings
Th...
Gaps identified
NA
Location
Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba
Key recommendations
Improvements are needed with respect to provision of information related to postpartum depression and informed choice around the need for C-sections.
Key populations
Newcomer women
Key findings
Newcomers were more likely to be un...