Browsing Social Work Faculty Research, Publications and Presentations by Title
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A step further: How to improve a mentoring program to fully advance the labour market integration of internationally trained professionals
“A Step Further” is an evaluation of the Profession to Profession (PTP): Mentoring Immigrants program. Initiated in 2004, the PTP program matches City of Toronto employees (i.e. mentors) with skilled internationally trained ... -
A Tale of Two Contexts: The Ukrainian and Afghan Refugee Crises in Canada and the UK
A Tale of Two Contexts is a comparative study that contrasts the approaches of Canada and the UK in accommodating Ukrainian and Afghan refugees. This study scrutinizes the criteria that classify refugees as deserving or ... -
They Did Not Listen to Our Whole Story Women’s Experiences in the Domestic Violence Courts of Nova Scotia
The research highlighted in this report was initiated following a conversation with the Director of the Elizabeth Fry Society of Cape Breton who indicated they would like to explore further the experiences of women who had ... -
Ukraine: How citizenship and race play out in refugees’ movements in Europe
As millions of refugees flee Ukraine as a result of the Russian invasion, one question that has been raised is: Why have Ukrainians been welcomed into eastern Europe, unlike Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans and Eritreans? Is it ... -
Unfree Labour: COVID-19 and Migrant Workers in the Seafood Industry in New Brunswick
This report is the second 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 interview data conducted with ... -
When caring is not enough: Emotional labor and youth shelter workers
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 ... -
Whiteness in Question: the Anatomy of a Taxonomy Across Transnational Contexts
The idea of whiteness has been used in the Anglo-American, middle-class, liberal settings to denote an essential group appurtenance on phenotypical and cultural terms and to code such appurtenance as a universal marker of ...