Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

As part of The Remote and Online Services for Professional Immigrants (ROSPI), the study maps settlement and job integration barriers for immigrant professionals in Canada including recredentialing and licensing hurdles, foreign qualification recognition issues, discriminatory hiring and skill discounting, plus cultural and language adjustments. Using a mixed methods design with a survey and interviews, the team built and tested a digital tool called The Seeker that uses a wiki style format with general content and country and profession specific guidance. A pilot focused on Filipino nurses, Indian IT professionals, and Ukrainian teachers, and the results open new lines of research and practice on digital supports for intersectional needs in settlement and employment.

Part of The Remote and Online Services for Professional Immigrants (ROSPI). This is an integrative review of digital platforms for immigrant professionals in Canada finds the digital space focuses mostly on jobs and networking while settlement supports lag, argues for more holistic support that treats people as whole newcomers not just workers, notes mixed evidence on benefits versus reliability and scope limits, and compiles practical directions to improve these tools

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Part of The Voices in the Art (VIA) project. A scoping review maps social work scholarship on LGBTQIA+ migrants, finding heavy focus on health and mental health, qualitative methods, and Global North contexts. It shows more attention to economic migrants than asylum seekers or undocumented people, and emphasis on men who have sex with men over broader identities, with youth understudied despite growth in identities examined. It calls for stronger intersectional perspectives and more balanced coverage.

Part of The Remote and Online Services for Professional Immigrants (ROSPI).  An environmental scan of digital employment services for immigrant professionals in Canada mapped offerings across major cities and some rural areas, reviewed platforms by region, modality, audience, and needs, found uneven access to tailored programs with e-learning and self-paced courses most common, noted a focus on high-demand fields like IT and health care and a tendency to treat immigrants as one group, and saw job search resources dominate while financial supports lag and could expand.

A literature review of francophone newcomer students in English provinces maps two themes, school integration and out of school integration, with in school subthemes on educational and cultural gaps, language diversity and identity, and multiple marginalization; it flags factors like pre and post immigration school differences, English proficiency, and misrecognition of francophone diversity, then outlines gaps, future research paths, and implications for school psychology

A case study examines a community based, cross sector collaboration created during COVID 19 to reach racialized immigrant communities, and proposes a framework that links short term crisis supports with broad reach and general goals to long term settlement supports built on trust and targeted aims such as language help and culturally appropriate outreach

A qualitative pilot in Calgary interviewed eleven front line workers at an immigrant serving language learning agency to map how systems view newcomer integration, highlighting links between client identity and language, emotional burden and belonging, daily life pressures, and the cultural brokerage role of staff in supporting wellness.

Protocol for a scoping review that will map settlement agency services supporting the emotional wellness of refugees, immigrants, and other newcomers, using the JBI approach and broad database searches through July 2020 to describe the evidence base, identify gaps, and guide future reviews and practice.

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This study looked at an online employment program for newcomer youth run by an immigrant-serving organization. The program combined digital marketing training with an internship to help participants build skills and improve their chances of finding work. Using surveys and staff interviews, the study found that the program increased participants’ skills, confidence, and employability. Staff also said the online format made the program more accessible, but some challenges remained, such as digital literacy and technology issues. Overall, the program had a positive impact, while showing that strong digital access and better participant engagement are important for success.

This study shows that ideas about sustainability are often shaped by Western views, while the knowledge of historically marginalized people is overlooked. Based on interviews with Syrian and Sudanese farming families in Calgary, it highlights how their lived knowledge and relationship with the environment can support broader and more diverse visions of sustainability.

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The integration of immigrants into Canadian society is critical for addressing labor shortages and fostering economic growth, particularly in cities like Calgary where immigrant populations are rapidly increasing. This study conducted an environmental scan of Calgary's immigrant-serving sector, revealing a core-periphery model where a small number of organizations dominate service provision, highlighting both strengths and untapped potential for collaboration and resource access within the sector.

This study aims to investigate the barriers faced by newcomers in Canada in accessing mental health and crisis intervention services, focusing on immigrant and racialized communities. It explores service models that integrate newcomer support organizations with mental health services to address these challenges.

This study examines the challenges literacy instructors face in supporting adult English learners with low education, limited English, and low digital literacy. Using a participatory approach, the researchers worked with educators to co-design and test a teacher toolkit that helps instructors use technology and hybrid teaching more effectively.