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Future research / gaps identified: Investigate how communities are individually managing applicants to the Rural Renewal and Rural Entrepreneur streams, and identifying promising practices that communities and government could review. Integration timeline: not defined Locations: Rural Alberta Brooks Hanna...
Community organizations: AAISA Future research / gaps identified: Future research should focus on: The impact of settlement system development on the economic and social outcomes of newcomers in small communities. The role of municipal leadership and political will in the development of effective settlement syste...
Open-access – Yes Location Hanna Alberta Key recommendations Start conversations about diversity and inclusion Conduct education campaigns about newcomers, in order to spread awareness Create a community ambassador program for newcomers Key populations Newcomers Key findings There is a “welco...
Community organizations NA Gaps identified NA Key recommendations NA Key findings Upon arrival, all newcomers meet their immediate physical or core needs, which are similar between both groups of newcomers (foreign nationals and new-to-town individuals): language, housing, and employment. New-to-town individuals...
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...
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...
Gaps identified NA Key findings Women’s perceptions of health, and examples of how they tried to achieve such, showed they wanted to do best for their and baby’s health but faced numerous difficult life circumstances during pregnancy and postpartum. Despite existing challenges, programs, such as HMHB, can play a crit...
Key populations Immigrant social workers (female and male) Gaps identified Lack of research that addresses gender-based experiences of immigrant social workers Key recommendations Remove barriers to social workers’ professional and personal adaptation in the following areas: “language, employment, housing, daycare,...
Integration timeline: not defined Key findings: Services for newcomers in Lloydminster continue to increase. The Lloydminster municipal government needs a stronger presence on immigration issues. Much of the current immigrant-serving organizations aren’t efficiently collaborating with the other members of their...