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Refugees in Canada and Germany: From Research to Policies and Practice
(GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, 2020)This edited collection offers an in-depth look at the reactions of Germany and Canada - two countries that have responded to the 21st century ‘age of displacement’ in very different ways - and the creative solutions and ... -
Refugee Youth in Western Canadian Cities: Perceptions of, Identification with, and Attachment to Canada
(CYRRC, 2019-11)The central purpose of this research project is to shed light on the perceptions of, identification with, and affinity to Canada among refugee youth based on an online survey involving a non-randomized sample of self-selected ... -
The Impacts of Literacy and Numeracy on Earnings: Do Admission Categories Matter?
(CYRRC, 2019-10)We explore differences in literacy and numeracy skills, and the economic returns to these skills for immigrants to Canada in different admission classes, and their Canadian-born counterparts. Respondents are categorized ... -
School and community resources in the social-emotional and academic adjustment of refugee children, report
(CYRRC, 2019-11)Refugee children are thought to face multiple, intersecting challenges, associated with pre-migration trauma and post-migration adaptation struggles. Perhaps due to this, much of the research pertaining to refugee well-being ... -
Exploring belonging: Experiences of refugee children and families in Camp Cosmos
(2019)Camp Cosmos was founded in 1971 in Montreal to provide children from diverse social, economic and cultural backgrounds with a safe and fun environment to play, learn and grow. The summer camp is grounded on an anti-oppression ... -
Immigrant and Refugee Settlement in Canada: Trends in Federal Funding
(2019-08)This report is the product of a collaboration between the University of Alberta, the Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers (EMCN) and the Alberta Association of Immigrant Serving Agencies (AAISA). It is a comparative ... -
Youth Newcomers’ Educational Resistance
(2019)Refugees who come to Canada have a relatively lower level of education when compared to the independent immigrants. Among all newcomers to Canada, refugee youth have the lowest educational attainment. Often, educational ... -
Youth Engagement in Ethnocultural Organizations in Winnipeg
(2019-02)This report supplements a previous report, "Ethnocultural Community Organizations in Winnipeg: A Legacy Document", that was written in 2018. Collectively, the two documents explore the role of ethnocultural community groups ... -
Delphi Process of Research and Policy Intervention for Refugee Children and Youth
(2018-08)This report outlines that process and the results from it. The project was developed and carried out by Dr. Howard Ramos, Serperi Sevgur and Dr. Patrick McGrath of Dalhousie University. The report first offers an overview ... -
Immigration and Refugee Settlement in Canada: Trends in Public Funding
(2018-09)This report is the product of a collaboration between the University of Alberta and the Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies of BC (AMSSA). It is a comparative study of provincial funding programs ... -
Ethnocultural Community Organizations in Winnipeg: A Legacy Document
(2018-05)Since research has found that only about one-third of newly arrived immigrants and refugees access settlement services from a government-funded immigrant-serving agency (Lo, et al., 2010; Wilkinson & Bucklaschuk, 2014), ... -
When caring is not enough: Emotional labor and youth shelter workers
(1999-09)Organizations often dictate how their employees should behave through explicit rules and structures. In addition, sociologists and organizational theorists suggest that organizations invest energy, time, and money into ... -
A Deeper, More Social Ecological Social Work Practice
(University of Chicago Press, 2002-09)Although an ecological model of social work practice has been important to the profession since the 1970s, advances in ecological theory based on developments in deep ecology (Naess 1989) and social ecology (Bookchin 1980, ... -
A Reply to Geoffrey Greif
(2003-06)Replies to Geoffrey L. Greif's (2003) critique of the author's (2002) deeper ecological approach toward conducting social work. Greif's perception of Carol Meyer's & Edgar Auerswald's work as important for associating ... -
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