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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.
As the number of immigrants increase globally, nations grapple with how to accommodate new arrivals and how best to integrate them into their society. This forward-looking book explores the diverse methods by which cultures worldwide accommodate growing immigrant populations. It investigates the settlement and adjustment of new arrivals by analyzing various challenges they encounter, including employment, housing and social integration.
The book examines the diverse lived experiences of immigrants, encompassing economic migrants alongside vulnerable populations such as refugees and women. Chapters cover key topics including immigrant health, refugee shelters, racial and ethnic discrimination and employment outcomes for skilled workers. Contributing authors engage with new research methods and theoretical perspectives, identifying key questions to guide future research within the field.
A Research Agenda for Immigration Settlement and Adjustment is a valuable resource for scholars and students of sociology and geography, particularly those interested in population studies. Policy analysts, international and development organizations, think tanks and demographers will also benefit from this book's fascinating insights.
Contents
Contents
1 Introduction: A Research Agenda for Immigration Settlement and
Adjustment 1
K. Bruce Newbold and Mary Crea-Arsenio
2 Rethinking immigrant integration theories for the 21st century 9
Daniel Rauhut
3 Systems thinking in immigration settlement and integration:
how mapping complex systems can inform future research
directions 31
Mary Crea-Arsenio and Agnes Meershoek
4 Employment outcomes for permanent skilled immigrant workers
in Australia: recent evidence and future policy directions 51
Andrew Clarke and Rennie Lee
5 Areas of vulnerability among immigrants to Canada: recent
literature and future research directions 77
Alexander W. D. McArthur, Victoria M. Esses and Yoko Yoshida
6 Towards a common research agenda? Addressing political and
epistemological tensions around scholarship on racial/
ethnic discrimination 101
Zenia Hellgren
7 Immigrant health: charting the way forward 123
K. Bruce Newbold
8 Refugee resettlement: challenges, solutions, and pathways
forward 139
Deniz S. Sert and Ayşe Buket Mert
9 Immigrant women workers in Canada: standing in the
shadows 157
Andrea Baumann, Valentina Antonipillai, Victoria Smith, and
Mary Crea-Arsenio
10 Refugee women living in the shelter system 173
Fatima Homid, Dina Idriss-Wheeler, Valentina Antonipillai,
Mary Crea-Arsenio and Andrea Baumann
Index 185
