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Putting Family First

Putting Family First

Migration and Integration in Canada

Edited by Harald Bauder

Published by: University of British Columbia Press

Imprint: UBC Press

352 Pages, 152.00 × 229.00 mm, 1 graph, 4 illus.

Paperback
9780774861274
Published: November 2019

£26.99

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Hardcover
9780774861267
Published: May 2019

£72.00

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When migrants reach their new home, we often interpret their settlement and integration as an individual process driven largely by the labour market. But family plays a crucial role.

Putting Family First is the fruit of a four-year academic–community partnership to investigate the experience of immigrant families settling in Greater Toronto. Contributors explore the integration trajectory of immigrant families, from newcomers' initial reception to their deep involvement in and attachment to their receiving society. Chapters examine the interrelated themes of the policy environment, children and youth, gender, labour markets and work, and community supports, making insightful connections between concepts such as neoliberalism, resilience, and social capital.

Putting Family First applies rigorous academic research to solve practical problems, illustrating how the family context can be mobilized to facilitate the successful integration of newcomers and offering important guidance to practitioners and policy makers in Canada and beyond.

Foreword / Olivia Chow

Preface

Introduction / Harald Bauder, Mehrunnisa Ahmad Ali, and John Shields

Part 1: The Myth of the Self-Sufficient Immigrant

1 Immigrants Are Family Members, Too / Beth Martin

2 Neoliberalism and the Framing of Contemporary Canadian Immigration Policy / Jesse Root, John Shields, and Erika Gates-Gasse

3 Community Support for Immigrants and Their Families / Shuguang Wang and Skylar Maharaj

4 A Systems Approach to Immigrant Families and the Labour Market / Diane Dyson, Ezekiel Roos-Walker, and Charity-Ann Hannan

5 Looking beyond Class, Culture, Race, and Ability in Family Safety / Karline Wilson-Mitchell and Andrea Robertson

Part 2: The Family Advantage

6 The Five W's of Migration and Settlement Decision Making / Sepali Guruge, Mia Hershkowitz, and Corinne Hart

7 How Families Shape Settlement Trajectories / Mehrunnisa Ahmad Ali, Marc Yvan Valade, and Tania Dargy

8 Immigrant Women's Roles in Family Settlement / Mehrunnisa Ahmad Ali and Assel Baitubayeva

9 Children, Youths, and Resilience / Henry Parada, Ana Leticia Ibarra, Erin Mulvale, and Fabiola Limón Bravo

10 Social Capital, Newcomer Youth, and Family Resilience / Marc Yvan Valade and Vappu Tyyskä

11 The Economic and Labour Market Dynamics of Family Settlement / John Shields and Omar Lujan

12 Settling on Services / John Shields, Maria Gintova, Sepali Guruge, Reena Tandon, and Mia Hershkowitz

13 The Family Advantage / Marc Yvan Valade and Karline Wilson-Mitchell

Conclusion and Policy Recommendations / Harald Bauder

Appendix: Methods / Marc Yvan Valade and Maria Gintova

Index

Harald Bauder is a professor of geography and the director of the Graduate Program in Immigration and Settlement Studies at Ryerson University. He is also the founder of the Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement. His books include Migration Borders Freedom and Immigration Dialectic: Imagining Community, Economy, and Nation. Bauder is also a recipient of the Konrad Adenauer Research Award and a senior research fellowship from the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.

Contributors: Mehrunnisa Ahmad Ali, Assel Baitubayeva, Fabiola Limón Bravo, Tania Dargy, Diane Dyson, Erika Gates-Gasse, Maria Gintova, Sepali Guruge, Charity-Ann Hannan, Corinne Hart, Mia Hershkowitz, Ana Leticia Ibarra, Omar Lujan, Skylar Maharaj, Beth Martin, Erin Mulvale, Henry Parada, Andrea Robertson, Ezekiel Roos-Walker, Jesse Root, John Shields, Reena Tandon, Vappu Tyyskä, Marc Yvan Valade, Shuguang Wang, Karline Wilson-Mitchell