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This report is about a partnership research project between a research team, led by Professor Nicole Gallant, from the UCS Center at INRS and a team of MTESS professionals. The mandate of the research team was to better understand and document the informational practices of recent immigrants and young…
The research investigates refugee youth’s aspirations for and access to post-secondary education in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The theoretical framework that underpins this study consists of segmented assimilation theory and the bioecological model of human development. A basic…
This dissertation examines how wage theorem applies to the question, does immigration based labour negatively impact domestic based labour in the area of wages? Existing research is mostly US based and marco level which make the findings less applicable in the Canadian context. In the US the predominant…
Beyond the immigration status and the associated expectations, immigration is prone to heavily influence one’s life trajectory and to transform the relationships with family and friends, especially when transitioning to adulthood. Based on a processual approach – which allows to speak of social…
This dissertation examines how gender relations of power change in the context of labour migration through the lived experiences of the migrants. Following the social constructionist epistemology, gender is framed through the lens of post-structural, intersectional, and transnational feminist theories.…
Canadian federal policies currently prioritize Francophone immigration to support the vitality of Francophone minority communities outside Quebec. This research explores French-speaking immigrants’ experiences of participation in Francophone community sites in Metro Vancouver. Partnerships were established…
This dissertation focuses on ‘edugration’ (an amalgamation of ‘education’ and ‘migration’), arguing that the growing recruitment of international students as ‘skilled’ migrants is a distinct form of economic immigration and shifts the role of higher education in society. Using Canadian…
This dissertation will be a comparative, multi-sited ethnography about the Vietnamese recent migrants in Vancouver and Paris. I will critically examine migrants’ engagement in local and transnational occupations (i.e., daily activities) and how these are impacted by the differential approaches to immigration…
This thesis examines discontinuities in the life course through the case of young temporary migrant working in the hospitality sector in Québec. Based on a qualitative longitudinal study, it explores how two events, the COVID19 pandemic and the Quebec Experience Program’s (PEQ) reform, affect their…
Au-delà des statuts d’entrée au pays et des attentes qui s’y associent, l’immigration est susceptible de marquer le parcours de vie et transformer les relations avec l’entourage, tout particulièrement lors du passage à la vie adulte. À partir d’une approche processuel – qui permet…