Browsing Child and Youth Refugee Research Coalition (CYRRC) by Title
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Home to home: A Purposeful Journey: Toolkit for working with refugee youth
(Access Alliance, 2020)Developed as one of the products of the community-based research project on separated refugee youth, this toolkit comprises a comprehensive set of research and navigation tools to provide diverse stakeholders (e.g. refugee ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Interdependence between L1 and L2: The case of Syrian children with refugee backgrounds in Canada and the Netherlands
(Cambridge University Press, 2021)Children who are refugees become bilingual in circumstances that are often challenging and that can vary across national contexts. We investigated the second language (L2) syntactic skills of Syrian children aged 6-12 ... -
The interplay between syntactic and morphological comprehension in heritage contexts: The case of relative clauses in heritage Syrian Arabic
(Cambridge University Press, 2023)Previous studies show that even though monolingual children find subject relatives easier than object relatives, their comprehension of object relatives can be facilitated by morphological cues. Given that in heritage ... -
De l’oralité à l’usage des nouvelles technologies de l’information et de la communication (NTIC): Défis des familles immigrantes et réfugiées à s’adapter aux nouveaux moyens de communication entre les enseignants et les parents.
(Université Sinte Anne, 2019-09)L’école considère les parents d’élèves comme des partenaires qui jouent un rôle indispensable dans le processus d’apprentissage des enfants. Or, les parents ne forment pas une entité homogène et n’ont pas tous les mêmes ... -
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 ... -
Mental Health Issues Affecting Refugee Youth in Canada who Experienced Family Loss and Separation in their Country of Origin
(ECRONICON, 2021-06-26)The objective of this article is to understand the key mental health problems affecting unaccompanied refugee youth in Canada who experienced family loss and separation in their country of origin. This article is based on ... -
Mental Health of Newcomer Refugee and Immigrant Youth During COVID-19
(Canadian Ethnic Studies Association, 2022)In this paper, we examine how the degree of newcomer youth assimilation and acculturation, food insecurity, resilience, and social connections affect the mental health of recent refugee and immigrant youth in a mid-sized ... -
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 ... -
Morphology and Reading Skills in Arabic-Speaking Syrian Refugee Children
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2023)Limited research has been conducted on the literacy skills of Arabic-speaking refugee children. This study investigated the concurrent and longitudinal role(s) of morphological awareness in Arabic word reading and reading ... -
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. ...