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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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Public and Private Sector Earnings of Immigrants and the Canadian-Born: Evidence from the Labour Force Survey (Postprint)
(Springer, 2021-03-20)
Using Statistics Canada’s monthly Labour Force Survey master files from January 2006 to December 2018, this paper evaluates the wage differences between immigrants and comparable Canadian-born workers both within the ...
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 ...