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Community organizations: Future research / gaps identified Integration timeline: Key populations: Location: Calgary Edmonton Open access: No Key findings Ethnic settlements in Edmonton and Calgary are becoming increasing suburban, with continued expansion fueled by new immigrants and recently const...
Location Calgary, Alberta Integration timeline At what point during the integration process the study was conducted? Length of time in Canada among immigrants (recent = 10 years or less, mid-term = 11 to 25 years, and long-term = more than 25 years) Key findings There are significant differences between immigrants...
Future research / gaps identified: This is only preliminary research on this topic. Integration timeline Newcomers in general Key recommendations Within the next 1-3 years, conduct environmental scans, rationalize programs, enhance inter-SPO (service provider organization) assistance, establish one-stop centr...
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 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...
Key findings African immigrants engage in a variety of parenting practices that include those informed by their cultural background as well as ‘new’ approaches, adopted in Canada. The authors describe three approaches to parenting/child discipline: corporal (i.e. spanking and pinching, and more severe practices as kick...
Future research / gaps identified: This study is exploratory and preliminary. Integration timeline: The article says ‘recent immigrants’ participated, but doesn’t specify further. Key populations: Recent Filipino immigrants who now live in rural Alberta and have children in secondary school. Open access: No Co...
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’...
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...
Key findings Refugees tend to live in the far north part of Calgary, some small portions in the Southwest, and a large concentration in the Forest Lawn/Northeast part of Calgary because housing is more affordable there Single refugees are likely to face housing affordability issues far more than their counterparts...