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Anglo-American hegemony or else…!
(Central European University Press Review of Books, 2024-02)Hans Kundnani’s book Eurowhiteness (Hurst, 2023) propositions that white ethnic nationalism is at the basis of European identity. In her Long Read, however, Raluca Bejan unwraps several issues that she argues make Kundnani’s ... -
Tough Conversations: "Things I Wish They Knew About Youth with Refugee Experience"
(2024)In this video, youth with refugee experience discuss several concerns that they wished people knew about refugee youth. The youth share stories from when they first arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, including experiences ... -
Discussion Guide for Video Tough Conversations: "Things I wish they knew about youth with refugee experience"
(2024)This discussion guide accompanies a video in which a panel of youth with refugee experience discuss several concerns that they wished people knew about refugee youth. The youth share stories from when they first arrived ... -
Public and Private Sector Earnings of Immigrants and the Canadian-Born: Evidence from the Labour Force Survey (Postprint)
(Springer, 2021-03-20)Using Statistics Canada’s monthly Labour Force Survey master files from January 2006 to December 2018, this paper evaluates the wage differences between immigrants and comparable Canadian-born workers both within the ... -
Interdependence between L1 and L2: The case of Syrian children with refugee backgrounds in Canada and the Netherlands
(Cambridge University Press, 2021)Children who are refugees become bilingual in circumstances that are often challenging and that can vary across national contexts. We investigated the second language (L2) syntactic skills of Syrian children aged 6-12 ... -
Morphosyntactic Development in First Generation Arabic—English Children: The Effect of Cognitive, Age, and Input Factors over Time and across Languages
(MDPI, 2021)This longitudinal study examined morphosyntactic development in the heritage Arabic-L1 and English-L2 of first-generation Syrian refugee children (mean age = 9.5; range = 6–13) within their first three years in Canada. ... -
Sources of variation at the onset of bilingualism: The differential effect of input factors, AOA, and cognitive skills on HL Arabic and L2 English syntax
(Cambridge University Press, 2022)Despite growing research on individual differences in child bilinguals, few studies have focused on the development of syntax, included both languages, and studied newly arrived school-age migrant children. Accordingly, ... -
The interplay between syntactic and morphological comprehension in heritage contexts: The case of relative clauses in heritage Syrian Arabic
(Cambridge University Press, 2023)Previous studies show that even though monolingual children find subject relatives easier than object relatives, their comprehension of object relatives can be facilitated by morphological cues. Given that in heritage ... -
Age, Experience and Language and Literacy Skills in English- Arabic Speaking Syrian Refugees
(MDPI, 2023)Although age of acquisition (AoA) is frequently used when examining the endpoint of second language (L2) learning, it is rarely used to examine the initial phases of L2 acquisition. The present study provided a unique look ... -
Asset-Challenge Shifts of Rural and Remote Communities in the Global Context of Climate Change: A Systematic Review through the Natural-Built-Social-Environment Triangulation
(2024)This SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant project used the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) approach to comprehensively synthesize the current knowledge of climate change and climate-induced ... -
Older Refugee Youth with Interrupted Schooling in Smaller Communities in Manitoba
(University of Winnipeg, 2023-09)This study explored interrupted schooling among youth with refugee experience in smaller Manitoba communities. Using a community-engaged participatory research methodology, this study gathered data from four cohorts that ... -
They Did Not Listen to Our Whole Story Women’s Experiences in the Domestic Violence Courts of Nova Scotia
(Project Title: Improving Lives of Families or Punishing Women? (2020-2023) Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research, 2023-11-01)The research highlighted in this report was initiated following a conversation with the Director of the Elizabeth Fry Society of Cape Breton who indicated they would like to explore further the experiences of women who had ... -
Case Analysis of the Language for Young Adults Program: An Investigation into the Language, Social and Emotional Learning Needs of Refugee Youth
(2023)The goal of this study was to understand how social and emotional factors shape and inform language learning experiences from the student perspective while highlighting the resilience and resilience of newcomer youth in ... -
A Tale of Two Contexts: The Ukrainian and Afghan Refugee Crises in Canada and the UK
(The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford., 2023-12-12)A Tale of Two Contexts is a comparative study that contrasts the approaches of Canada and the UK in accommodating Ukrainian and Afghan refugees. This study scrutinizes the criteria that classify refugees as deserving or ... -
Mapping Public Responses to the “Refugee Crisis”: Who Claims what in Heidelberg and Ottawa/Gatineau?
(GESIS-Schriftenreihe, 2020)Despite their very different histories, ideologies of nationhood, and experiences with immigrant and refugee integration in 2015-2016, Germany and Canada both struggled with the sudden arrival of newcomers. This chapter ... -
Acculturation through the lens of language: Syrian refugees in Canada and Germany (Postprint)
(Cambridge University Press, 2020)In this study, we examined the acculturation experiences of Syrian refugee families in two contexts: Toronto, Canada and Munich, Germany. Using qualitative methodologies, we examined acculturation orientation through the ... -
Morphology and Reading Skills in Arabic-Speaking Syrian Refugee Children
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2023)Limited research has been conducted on the literacy skills of Arabic-speaking refugee children. This study investigated the concurrent and longitudinal role(s) of morphological awareness in Arabic word reading and reading ... -
Parents’ Perceptions of Barriers and Facilitators to Their Children’s Multilingual Language Development Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Canadian Ethnic Studies Association, 2022)Multilingual students, according to the deficit framework of “English language learners,” are at a disadvantage compared to their monolingual peers. This framework fails to recognize the assets that accompany home language ... -
De l’oralité à l’usage des nouvelles technologies de l’information et de la communication (NTIC): Défis des familles immigrantes et réfugiées à s’adapter aux nouveaux moyens de communication entre les enseignants et les parents.
(Université Sinte Anne, 2019-09)L’école considère les parents d’élèves comme des partenaires qui jouent un rôle indispensable dans le processus d’apprentissage des enfants. Or, les parents ne forment pas une entité homogène et n’ont pas tous les mêmes ... -
Focusing on people and adapting to change: A report on the Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia during the first year of the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia, 2021)The Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia (ISANS) is the largest immigrant-service provider organization in Atlantic Canada. Due to emerging developments with the COVID-19 pandemic, ISANS chose to transition its ...