Faculty of Health: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Mobilizing Innovative Models in Early Childhood Education and Care for Newcomer Families and Children
(Mount Saint Vincent University, Early Childhood Collaborative Research Centre, 2023)The objective of this research was to identify innovative approaches to early learning and child care (ELCC) programs to meet the unique needs of newcomer families and support the social and emotional development of their ... -
COVID-19 and Refugee Families in Montreal: Strategies for Reaching Hard-to-reach Populations in Health Emergencies
(McGill University, Centre for Research on Children and Families, 2022)Communication between government and immigrant newcomer communities is challenging. Research shows that accessing accurate information and resources among newcomer groups is often difficult due to limited access to media; ... -
Reimagining mental health care for newcomer children and families: a qualitative framework analysis of service provider perspectives
(Springer Nature, 2023-06-27)Background Persistent disparities in access to mental health care for refugee and immigrant children and their families pose unique challenges to policy and practice. This study examined service provider perspectives on ... -
International Black Health Conference Report
(2023-06-01)The International Black Health Conference, held in Halifax, Nova Scotia from October 6th-8th, 2022 gathered a diverse local, interprovincial, and international audience (approximately 450 attendees) including academics, ... -
Narrative microstructure and macrostructure skills in Arabic diglossia: The case of Arab immigrant children in Canada (Postprint)
(Sage Journals, 2023)The current study investigated the composition of the lexicon deployed by Arabic-speaking Canadian immigrant children in narrative production with specific focus on diglossia (N=75; Age-range 7-12 years). The study also ... -
Supporting Prosociality and Resilience in Newcomer Transitions: An Evaluation of the SPRINT Pilot Training
(University of Toronto, 2022-07)As a result of pre- and post-migratory traumas and adversities, Middle Eastern refugee families experience disproportionately high social-emotional and mental health challenges, and these traumas and challenges have been ... -
Resettlement, mental health, and coping: a mixed methods survey with recently resettled refugee parents in Canada
(Springer Nature, 2023-02-23)Background: Resettlement experiences of refugee parents are under-researched despite evidence indicating higher risk of poor mental health. The current study integrates family systems and social determinants of refugee ... -
Unfree Labour: COVID-19 and Migrant Workers in the Seafood Industry in New Brunswick
(TFW Maritimes, 2023-03-01)This report is the second in a series of community-based research projects undertaken by the Migrant Workers in the Canadian Maritimes partnership. It draws on desk research and qualitative interview data conducted with ... -
Promoting Healthy, Resilient, and Sustainable Development at the Individual, Family, and Community levels: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Human-Animal Interactions
(2023)This SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant project employs the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) approach to comprehensively recognize state-of-the-art HAI-specific social and health ... -
Orientation to Compassion: Exploring How Space Constructs Meanings of Compassion for 2SLGBTQ Individuals
(Common Ground, 2022)Cis-heteronormative discourses within society create experiences of homophobia, transphobia, violence, and harm for many Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and other sexual and gender diverse (2SLGBTQ+) people. ... -
After the Cold War: Why COVID-19 infection and death rates were so high in Eastern Europe
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Why social workers should support the CUPE 3912 labour strike
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University and school strikes across Canada are about workers’ rights — and protecting education as a public good
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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 ... -
Whiteness in Question: the Anatomy of a Taxonomy Across Transnational Contexts
(Springer, 2022-08-16)The idea of whiteness has been used in the Anglo-American, middle-class, liberal settings to denote an essential group appurtenance on phenotypical and cultural terms and to code such appurtenance as a universal marker of ... -
COVID-19 amongst western democracies: A welfare state analysis
(Springer, 2022-04-26)The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in more than 282 million cases and almost 5.5 million deaths (WHO Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Dashboard, 2022). Its impact, however, has not been uniform. This analysis examines ... -
‘NGOs are sort of a dirty word here’: Refugee service provision in Greece
(Oxford University, 2022-06-04)
