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Navigating a Sea of Disasters: A Discourse Analysis of Women’s Experiences with Child Protection Services.
(MDPI, 2021-11-15)
Abstract: Background: The postpartum period is often portrayed as a blissful, calm and loving time
when mothers, partners and family members bond with their newborn babies. However, this time
may be experienced quite ...
Second Opinions: Negotiating Agency in Online Mothering Forums
(SAGE, 2020-08-06)
Study background: Online forums and other virtual communities are an increasing source of postpartum support and information for first-time mothers. However, there is little evidence about how new mothers in Canada access ...
Mother-Child Programs for Incarcerated Mothers and Children and Associated Health Outcomes: A Scoping Review
(Longwoods, 2020-03)
Background: Increasing incarceration of women disrupts fertility, family formation, parenting and mother-child relationships. It is common in many jurisdictions, including Canada, to mitigate the harm of separation from ...
Using a Learning Health System Framework to Examine COVID-19 Pandemic Planning and Response [Preprint]
(PLOS ONE, 2021)
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a unique opportunity to explore how health systems adapt under rapid and constant change and develop a better understanding of health system transformation. Learning health ...
The role of word reading and oral language skills in reading comprehension in Syrian refugee children (Postprint)
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-07-24)
Canada has resettled more than 57,000 Syrian refugees since 2015 (Government of Canada, 2017). However, little is known about refugee children’s language and literacy development. The present study evaluated Syrian refugee ...
Focusing on people and adapting to change: A report on the Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia during the first year of the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia, 2021)
The Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia (ISANS) is the largest immigrant-service provider organization in Atlantic Canada. Due to emerging developments with the COVID-19 pandemic, ISANS chose to transition its ...
Acculturation through the lens of language: Syrian refugees in Canada and Germany (Postprint)
(Cambridge University Press, 2020)
In this study, we examined the acculturation experiences of Syrian refugee families in two
contexts: Toronto, Canada and Munich, Germany. Using qualitative methodologies, we examined acculturation orientation through the ...
Mapping Public Responses to the “Refugee Crisis”: Who Claims what in Heidelberg and Ottawa/Gatineau?
(GESIS-Schriftenreihe, 2020)
Despite their very different histories, ideologies of nationhood, and experiences with immigrant and refugee integration in 2015-2016, Germany and Canada both struggled with the sudden arrival of newcomers. This chapter ...
Morphosyntactic Development in First Generation Arabic—English Children: The Effect of Cognitive, Age, and Input Factors over Time and across Languages
(MDPI, 2021)
This longitudinal study examined morphosyntactic development in the heritage Arabic-L1
and English-L2 of first-generation Syrian refugee children (mean age = 9.5; range = 6–13) within their first three years in Canada. ...