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Economic Insecurity and Isolation: Post-Migration Traumas among Black African Refugee Women in the Greater Vancouver Area

Author(s): Adrienne Wasik
Date: October, 2006
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What are the experiences of Black African refugee women in the Greater Vancouver Area (GVA)? What are the effects of local and everyday trauma? How might policy and program changes improve this situation?

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Immigrant Rites of Passage: Urban Settlement, Physical Environmental Quality and Health in Vancouver

Author(s): Michael Buzzelli and K. Bruce Newbold
Date: August, 2006
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

Do immigrants to Canada experience a higher exposure to environmental health hazards? What does a survey of immigrant environmental health in Vancouver reveal?

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Parental Sponsorship—Whose Problematic? A Consideration of South Asian Women’s Immigration Experiences in Vancouver

Author(s): Arlene Tigar McLaren
Date: June, 2006
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

Is parental sponsorship a problem? What are some of the experiences of parental sponsors? How does the sponsorship program contribute to immigrant inequalities?

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“Witnessing” Social Suffering: Migratory Tales of Women from Afghanistan

Author(s): Parin Dossa
Date: February, 2006
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

How do older Afghan women in Vancouver ‘witness’ and describe their own life stories?

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Health Care Utilization of Later-Stage Immigrants in British Columbia

Author(s): Zheng Wu and Christoph M. Schimmele
Date: June, 2005
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

Do later-stage immigrants (aged 45 years and older at immigration) use health care in different ways than non-immigrants? What might account for these differences?

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Immigrant Status and Unmet Health Care Needs in British Columbia

Author(s): Zheng Wu and Christoph M. Schimmele
Date: August, 2004
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What is the relationship between immigrant status and unmet health care needs in British Columbia? Do immigrants have more (or fewer) unmet needs than non-immigrants?

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Immigration, Place and Health: South Asian Women’s Accounts of Health, Illness and Everyday Life

Author(s): Isabel Dyck
Date: February, 2004
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What are the health needs and experiences of immigrant women in British Columbia? How does the management of health and illness feature in women’s everyday lives?

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Narrative Mediation of Conventional and New Paradigms of ‘Mental Health’: Reading the Stories of Immigrant Iranian Women

Author(s): Parin Dossa
Date: August, 2001
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

How can storytelling help us understand issues of immigrant mental health and emotional well-being? What kinds of medicalization processes are Iranian women in Canada subject to?

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The Narrative Representation of Mental Health: Iranian Women in Canada

Author(s): Parin Dossa
Date: July, 1999
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

How do immigrant women in Vancouver experience and make sense of their own mental health?

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Health Systems Renewal: ‘Writing In’ Cultural Plurality

Author(s): J. Anderson, S. Tang and C. Blue
Date: May, 1999
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

How is ‘culture’ understood in health care, and how is this taken up in the restructuring of Canada’s health care system?

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Social Determinants of Health in Canada’s Immigrant Population: Results from the National Population Health Survey

Author(s): James Dunn and Isabel Dyck
Date: October, 1998
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What are the social determinants of health in Canada’s immigrant population? What are the differences in health status and health care utilization between and amongst immigrant and non-immigrant groups?

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Immigration and Health Care Utilization Patterns in Canada

Author(s): Steven Globerman
Date: March, 1998
Source: Metropolis BC

Research Question:

What is the relationship between immigration and health care in Canada? How do immigrants use health care services compared to the Canadian-born?

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