Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience

Figures and Tables vii
Acknowledgments xi

1 International Migrants, Resistance, and Social Resilience: An Introduction 3
Tara Bedard, John Shields, and Valerie Preston

Part One Precarious Status 21

2 Municipal “Sanctuary” Policies in Canada: A View from Immigrant-Serving Organizations 27
Mireille Paquet, John Shields, Idil Atak, Meghan Joy, and Graham Hudson

3 The Importance of Language Skills and Francization to Asylum Seekers in Quebec: A Holistic Integration Understanding 42
Nicole Ives, Jill Hanley, Janet Cleveland, and Manuel Salamanca Cardona

4 Information Access and Resilience for Newcomer Groups: Yazidi and Turkish-Speaking Newcomers in York Region 63
Michaela Hynie, Gulay Kilicaslan, Cansu Ekmekcioglu, Rubiyat Karim, Palmer Taylor, and Trisha Scantlebury

Part Two Temporary Status 81

5 Supporting International Student Resilience Throughout the Migrant Journey 86
Christina Gabriel, Sutama Ghosh, Francine Schlosser, Luisa Veronis, and Margaret Walton-Roberts

6 “Hearing the Untold”: Insights from Research about International Students 111
Raymond Garrison, Sutama Ghosh, Sohail Shahidnia, and Saad El Hakmi

Part Three Permanent Status 129

7 Families and Resilience: Immigrant Integration in Metropolitan Toronto 133
Nancy Mandell, Janice Phonepraseuth, Jana Borras, Larry Lam, Amber Gazso, and Guida Man

8 Immigrant Families’ Capacity to Weather a Financial Storm: Racial Disparities in Economic Resilience 148
Nahid Sultana, Jill Hanley, and Francine Schlosser

9 Family Reunification: A Social Resilience Approach to Integration 167
Stéfanie Morris and Patti Tamara Lenard

Part Four: Integration and Gender 181

10 Gender, Immigration, Essential Work, and Resilience 185
Valerie Preston and Marshia Akbar

11 Immigrant Women’s Civic Engagement as a Response to Exclusion from Wage Labour 203
Alexandra Charette

12 Transformative Resilience Through Migrant-Led Collective Action 216
Rupaleem Bhuyan, Tenzin Chime, Alisha Alam, Andrea Bobadilla, Rinchen Dolma, Sultana Jahangir, and Youdon Tenzin Khangsar

Part Five: Conclusion 237

13 Building Resilience Through Policy: The Example of Gender-Responsive “Inclusive” Integration 240
Allison J. Petrozziello and Jenna L. Hennebry

References 259
Contributors 315
Index 323