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My dissertation investigates how official language minorities define their identities, envision cultural boundaries, and experience bilingualism in postsecondary institutions. More specifically, this bilingual research project is a qualitative inquiry of Franco-Ontarians and Anglo-Quebecers who attend…
Drawing on 31 three-hour sessions of participant-observation and 41 semi-structured interviews with the participants and organizers of an employment and leadership skills program for immigrant women at two Neighbourhood Houses in Vancouver, this enthnographic study examines the influence of Canadian…
Thousands of people over the world leave their homeland every year to journey to Canada, a country that offers them better opportunities than their countries of origin. The Lebanese are one of the groups that leave their home place every year looking for new places to prove themselves and thus find a…
This study situates the global trend of South to North migration for international education within historical and contemporary governmental approaches that have come to define the status quo in this field. A review of policies and programs that shaped international education during the colonial period…
This thesis explores the migration pathways and transnational class projects of 72 international students studying in Atlantic Canada. Bourdieu’s concepts of class and capital guide my analysis of the complex relationship between education internationalization and class capital accumulation strategies.…
My thesis examines the media consumption and production practices of Ottawa’s Chinese, Spanish speaking Latin American, and Somali communities in order to explore the communicational dimensions of newcomer and immigrant inclusion, integration, and civic participation. Specifically, I identify and compare…
Master’s Thesis The migration of human capital impacts several aspects of the demographic composition of the Canadian Provinces. Moreover, provinces such as New Brunswick are particularly impacted by the interprovincial migration of recent post-secondary graduates, because due to a high dependency…
With the increasing numbers of South Asian immigrant communities in Metro Vancouver (almost 10% of the total population), their Ethnic media are also growing at fast pace. Ethnic media hold opportunities for creating awareness about settlement, integration, racialization and civic engagement by representing…
My thesis explores the barriers that new immigrants face when they access emergency health care services in the city of Kelowna, a mid-sized Canadian city. The primary objective of this research is to find what hinder new immigrants from accessing appropriate health care during emergency situations and…
My dissertation examines job search and workplace experiences of immigrants from Turkey to Toronto and London, Canada, who comprise an understudied immigrant group. I am interested in how immigrants access and develop social networks, how they convert these networks into social capital in the labour…