Full Description
As Canada takes stock of its immigration programs, the factors that promote successful settlement have taken centre stage - for researchers, service providers, policymakers, and for the migrants themselves.
Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience explores the conditions and supports that help international migrants thrive, not just survive. Focusing on resilience, chapters examine how immigration status and family dynamics shape migrants' agency and their responses to the inevitable challenges of building new lives. They draw attention to the issues created by societal constructs, while highlighting the resources from social institutions of all types: governmental, professional, educational, and faith-based. Emphasizing the experiences of structurally oppressed migrant groups, contributors note the varied ways that capitalism, as well as class, gender, and race, can contribute to inequality in settlement practices.
Directed at a wide audience of community and government practitioners, policy experts, academics, and civil society activists, Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience illuminates both the impediments to newcomer integration and the ability of newcomers to engage successfully in adaption and resistance.
Contents
Figures and Tables vii
Acknowledgments xi
1 International Migrants, Resistance, and Social Resilience: An Introduction 3
Tara Bedard, John Shields, and Valerie Preston
Part One Precarious Status 21
2 Municipal "Sanctuary" Policies in Canada: A View from Immigrant-Serving Organizations 27
Mireille Paquet, John Shields, Idil Atak, Meghan Joy, and Graham Hudson
3 The Importance of Language Skills and Francization to Asylum Seekers in Quebec: A Holistic Integration Understanding 42
Nicole Ives, Jill Hanley, Janet Cleveland, and Manuel Salamanca Cardona
4 Information Access and Resilience for Newcomer Groups: Yazidi and Turkish-Speaking Newcomers in York Region 63
Michaela Hynie, Gulay Kilicaslan, Cansu Ekmekcioglu, Rubiyat Karim, Palmer Taylor, and Trisha Scantlebury
Part Two Temporary Status 81
5 Supporting International Student Resilience Throughout the Migrant Journey 86
Christina Gabriel, Sutama Ghosh, Francine Schlosser, Luisa Veronis, and Margaret Walton-Roberts
6 "Hearing the Untold": Insights from Research about International Students 111
Raymond Garrison, Sutama Ghosh, Sohail Shahidnia, and Saad El Hakmi
Part Three Permanent Status 129
7 Families and Resilience: Immigrant Integration in Metropolitan Toronto 133
Nancy Mandell, Janice Phonepraseuth, Jana Borras, Larry Lam, Amber Gazso, and Guida Man
8 Immigrant Families' Capacity to Weather a Financial Storm: Racial Disparities in Economic Resilience 148
Nahid Sultana, Jill Hanley, and Francine Schlosser
9 Family Reunification: A Social Resilience Approach to Integration 167
Stéfanie Morris and Patti Tamara Lenard
Part Four: Integration and Gender 181
10 Gender, Immigration, Essential Work, and Resilience 185
Valerie Preston and Marshia Akbar
11 Immigrant Women's Civic Engagement as a Response to Exclusion from Wage Labour 203
Alexandra Charette
12 Transformative Resilience Through Migrant-Led Collective Action 216
Rupaleem Bhuyan, Tenzin Chime, Alisha Alam, Andrea Bobadilla, Rinchen Dolma, Sultana Jahangir, and Youdon Tenzin Khangsar
Part Five: Conclusion 237
13 Building Resilience Through Policy: The Example of Gender-Responsive "Inclusive" Integration 240
Allison J. Petrozziello and Jenna L. Hennebry
References 259
Contributors 315
Index 323
