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Community organizations: Calgary Ability Network Alberta Ability Network Immigrant Services Calgary Key populations: newcomers with disabilities and their settlement workers Open access: Yes Future research / gaps identified: Expand training program to increase reach Advocate for policy reform that up...
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 ‘good̵...
Key populations Syrian refigees Location Edmonton, Alberta; Calgary, Alberta; Lethbridge, Alberta; Medicine Hat, Alberta; Red Deer, Alberta Key recommendations Strengthen social connections among refugees to find employment; access resources and express identity; address systemic issues around racism and discrimina...
Gaps identified NA Key findings Broad capitalist ideologies affect the conditions of labour that TFWs experience The demands of ‘work’ can contradict the requirements of ‘home’, and threaten workers’ abilities to maintain important social relationships and articulate aspects of their cultural identities Alberta...
Location Calgary, Alberta Key recommendations NA Key populations Migrant women Key findings Conditions for violence against and by racialized women in Canada are facilitated by white settler colonial and neoliberal discourses and practices that justify the criminalization of indigenous and racialized Others; the...
Gaps identified Employment: • Earnings of newcomers involved in various sectors of the economy, and the influence of Edmonton’s boom and bust cycle on this. • Experiences of economically successful immigrant groups and the strategies that worked for them to transition out of low-income socioeconomic lev...
Community organizations: CommunityWise Resource Centre Future research / gaps identified: n/a Integration timeline: n/a Key recommendations: Organizations should complete this initial self assessment, and then complete the more comprehensive assessments of organizational racism linked in this document. Open acc...
Integration timeline Newcomers (not defined) Location Calgary Alberta Open access: Yes Community organizations Centre for Newcomers Future research/gaps identified: This is a relatively new area of work that needs more program development, evaluation and research to increase supports for LGBTQ+...
Location Edmonton, Alberta Community organizations NA Integration timeline At what point during the integration process the study was conducted? NA Key recommendations Provision of permanent residency to foreign workers Gaps identified The author points to the gap in multiculturalism policy of Canada, arguing that...
Location Lethbridge, Alberta Community organizations NA Key populations Filipino immigrants and migrants Key findings Filipina immigrant and migrant women find spaces of belonging in Lethbridge through affordable housing and community connections as well as employment; they consider leaving Lethbridge for other op...
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