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Tough Conversations: "Things I Wish They Knew About Youth with Refugee Experience"
(2024)
In this video, youth with refugee experience discuss several concerns that they wished people knew about refugee youth. The youth share stories from when they first arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, including experiences ...
The Refuge – Policy Matters: Why Collaboration Matters
(The Child and Youth Refugee Research Coalition, Dalhousie University, 2022-11-29)
Welcome to Policy Matters, a special mini-series of The Refuge podcast that focuses on policy issues and connects policy makers with academics, community partners, and people with lived experience.
This episode features ...
The Refuge – Policy Matters: School Supports for Youth
(The Child and Youth Refugee Research Coalition, Dalhousie University, 2022-11-29)
Welcome to Policy Matters, a special mini-series of The Refuge podcast that focuses on policy issues and connects policy makers with academics, community partners, and people with lived experience.
Our guests in this ...
The Refuge – Policy Matters: The Question of Belonging
(The Child and Youth Refugee Research Coalition, Dalhousie University, 2022-11-29)
Welcome to Policy Matters, a special mini-series of The Refuge podcast that focuses on policy issues and connects policy makers with academics, community partners, and people with lived experience.
This episode features ...
The Refuge Episode 4: Here and There: Language Learning and Wellbeing in Canada and Germany
(The Child and Youth Refugee Research Coalition, Dalhousie University, 2021-09-23)
Welcome to the fourth episode of The Refuge!
Coinciding with the start of the new academic year, we continue our discussion of refugee children’s wellbeing and language learning; focusing on supports available in schools ...
The Refuge Episode 2: Transitions: Settlement, School, and Work
(The Child and Youth Refugee Research Coalition, Dalhousie University, 2021-08-12)
Welcome to the second episode of The Refuge in which we are joined by Praise Mugisho, a former refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo now living in Nova Scotia, Dr. Ifeyinwa Mbakogu, a social worker and Professor ...
The Refuge Episode 3: Learning the Language: Supporting Refugee Youth Learning English
(The Child and Youth Refugee Research Coalition, Dalhousie University, 2021-09-07)
Welcome to the third episode of The Refuge in which we discuss learning English as a new refugee in Canada, and how language affects and is in turn affected by integration.
Our guests are Fida Alfandi, a youth who ...
The Refuge Episode 1: Welcome To The Refuge
(The Child and Youth Refugee Research Coalition, Dalhousie University, 2021-08-12)
In this introductory episode, we are joined by Michael Ungar, CYRRC’s Scientific Director, Simone Chia-Kangata, CYRRC’s Project Manager, and Nabiha Atallah, Advisor of Strategic Initiatives at Immigrant Services Association ...
The Refuge Episode 7: Supporting the Mental Health of Refugee Youth
(The Child and Youth Refugee Research Coalition, Dalhousie University, 2022-05-05)
For Mental Health Week, we’re bringing greater awareness to the mental health challenges often faced by refugee youth. Pre-migration experiences—including separation from or loss of family—often result in PTSD, depression ...
The Refuge Episode 6: Five Years of Settlement: Syrians in Canada
(The Child and Youth Refugee Research Coalition, Dalhousie University, 2022-01-25)
The arrival of a large number of Syrian refugees between 2015-2017 was transformative for Canada. In this episode of the Refuge, we reflect on what we have collectively learned from the experience of Syrian refugees settling ...