2020 Annual Report CYRRC

Integration Research

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Integration Research

Integration projects explore the interlocking factors that influence the social integration of refugee children and youth, including background, family dynamics, and institutional, social, and organizational experiences. This research cluster considers refugee youths’ perspectives on their integration by including their opinions and involving them as researchers, and examines community resources that support refugee integration. This research helps us understand the diversity of integration experiences, challenges and barriers, and resources and supports that help. In 2020, CYRRC funded two projects: One explores the needs of long-term newcomer clients at a service provider organization in Edmonton and how to facilitate their independence; the other looks at reception, retainment, and integration capacity for French-speaking immigrants in the Atlantic provinces.

Supports and barriers to language, literacy, and school attainment of refugee children and youth

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1D Nakhaie “Low self-control leads to higher school resistance” (2019)
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1E Silvius “Experiences, challenges and concerns of ethnocultural community organizations” (2019)
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3B Ives “How recreational summer camps can help refugee children integrate” (2019)
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3D Garcea “Refugee youth reflect on ‘becoming Canadian’” (2019)
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Summer Camps Help Refugee Children Integrate

Language Learning & Syrian Refugee Preschoolers

Mathematics & Syrian Refugee Children

Syrian Refugee Integration

Thomas Soehl and colleagues began a five-year exploration of the integration trajectories of Syrian refugees, starting in 2019. This study aims to understand the challenges Syrian refugees face and the resources they mobilize in their integration journeys, while paying particular attention to the interplay between institutional, social, and organizational experiences; family dynamics; social networks; pre-migration experiences; home country and diaspora connections; and private and public sponsorships.

Literacy: Syrian Children in Canada & Germany

Documentary: Syrian Refugee Children’s Memories

Mehrunnisa Ali and colleagues engaged 13 Syrian refugee children to create their autobiographies based on memories of their lives in Syria, Lebanon/Jordan, and Canada. This short video documentary showcases how the children remembered fear, violence, and uncertainty, but also joy, friendship, excitement, and wonder.

Language, Literacy & Wellbeing in Syrian Children

Documentary: Syrian Refugee Children’s Memories

Mehrunnisa Ali and colleagues engaged 13 Syrian refugee children to create their autobiographies based on memories of their lives in Syria, Lebanon/Jordan, and Canada. This short video documentary showcases how the children remembered fear, violence, and uncertainty, but also joy, friendship, excitement, and wonder.

Syrians in Canadian & German Media