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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 ... -
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 ... -
Migrant Workers’ Safety Concerns Should be a Pandemic Priority
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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. ... -
The Muslim is the new Jew and we're not even 'moved' by it
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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 ... -
New Brunswick debate on migrant workers leaves a lot to be desired
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‘NGOs are sort of a dirty word here’: Refugee service provision in Greece
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Older Refugee Youth with Interrupted Schooling in Smaller Communities in Manitoba
(University of Winnipeg, 2023-09)This study explored interrupted schooling among youth with refugee experience in smaller Manitoba communities. Using a community-engaged participatory research methodology, this study gathered data from four cohorts that ... -
On Jordan Peterson's political correctness and the 'radical left'
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On whiteness, Rachel Dolezal and identity politics
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Parents’ Perceptions of Barriers and Facilitators to Their Children’s Multilingual Language Development Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Canadian Ethnic Studies Association, 2022)Multilingual students, according to the deficit framework of “English language learners,” are at a disadvantage compared to their monolingual peers. This framework fails to recognize the assets that accompany home language ... -
Permanent Jobs, Temporary People: Temporary Foreign Workers’ Struggle for Permanent Residency in Prince Edward Island
(TFW Maritimes, 2024-06-05)This report is the fourth 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 interviews conducted with 29 ... -
Playing (with) identity in Canadian classrooms
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'Poetry from the Future' won't solve Europe's crises
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Policy without Practice: Barriers to Enrollment for Non-Status Immigrant Students in Toronto’s Catholic Schools
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A Post-Master’s Advanced Diploma and a MSW Specialization in Social Service Administration: Design, Delivery, and Assessment of Outcomes
(2017)Many social workers with primarily direct practice experience have been increasingly moving into upper-level administrative roles within their organizations. Unfortunately, many of these new leaders do not have an adequate ...