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Location Alberta Key recommendations Governments and industry need to develop more holistic approaches to recruiting underrepresented groups to overcome labour market segmentation Key populations Temporary foreign worker Key findings Employers in the construction industry in Alberta use TFWs as a fluid, secondary...
Location Calgary, Alberta; Edmonton, Alberta Key recommendations Training opportunities for immigrant professionals (including fast-track and short-term programs); Increased opportunities for field training and professional mentorship; soft-skill training (workplace communication and relationships, teamwork, leadersh...
Location Calgary, Alberta Key recommendations More research is needed to understand how physicians make decisions about lab testing and who/how they refer for tests. Key populations General population Key findings There is a correlation between demographic characteristics and disease burden – this is in ac...
Key recommendations NA Gaps identified Compared to Brookes , Edmonton, Lethbridge, and Red Deer, the refugees in Calgary have the loWest attendance rate. Moreover, Calgary has the highest percentage of employed services used by the refugees for the purpose of finding work. Key findings This study assesses the serv...
Location Edmonton, Alberta; Calgary, Alberta; Red Deer, Alberta; Brooks, Alberta Key recommendations NA Key populations Service providers at major SPOs in Alberta Key findings Since the 1970s, religiously affiliated settlement agencies have undergone significant transformations; agencies have emerged with a negot...
Key findings Physicians are sympathetic to immigrant women’s requests for female obstetricians, but prioritize gender equity in the healthcare system and wider society. So they resisted accommodating gender-of-health-care provider requests Location Edmonton, Alberta Community organizations NA Key populations...
Location Calgary, Alberta Key recommendations Practitioners who work with refugees must interrogate their own pre-conceptions of resilience and how those pre-conceptions influence their expecations for refugees; Individual members of refugee communities are capable of defining their own needs; Important for refugees...
Location Alberta and BC Community organizations NA Integration timeline At what point during the integration process the study was conducted? NA Open-access – Yes https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/e3007f1d-1072-4cd3-b2d6-0a75173642b3/view/2675b055-5638-4073-8e93-76900fb5deb4/Asadi_Neda_201612_PhD.pdf K...
Community organizations: n/a Future research / gaps identified: 1) Continue research for Sudanese newcomers in different communities, of different ages, etc. 2) Conduct interviews in the participant’s first language Integration timeline: newcomers not defined Key findings Sudanese participants had limited...
Community organizations AAISA Location Alberta Integration timeline At what point during the integration process the study was conducted? NA Key recommenations Increasing intergovernmental communication and lateral dialogue on policy changes; long-term labour market assessments are recommended to support the provi...
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