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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.
"This volume provides a crucial, multi-faceted, and timely contribution to Canadian im/migration studies, encompassing an emphasis on resilience in ways that are sophisticated and nuanced." Alexandra Dobrowolsky, co-editor of Women, Migration and Citizenship: Making Local, National and Transnational Connections
Valerie Preston is professor emerita and senior scholar in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University.
John Shields (Editor)
John Shields is professor emeritus in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Tara Bedard (Editor)
Tara Bedard is executive director at the Waterloo Region Immigration Partnership.