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    Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience by Preston, Valerie; Shields, John; Bedard, Tara;

    Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher McGill-Queen's University Press
    • Date of Publication 31 December 2025

    • ISBN 9780228026075
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages366 pages
    • Size 229x152 mm
    • Weight 666 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 26 tables, 6 diagrams, 2 photos
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    As Canada takes stock of its immigration programs, the factors that promote successful settlement have taken centre stage – for researchers, service providers, policymakers, and for the migrants themselves.

    Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience explores the conditions and supports that help international migrants thrive, not just survive. Focusing on resilience, chapters examine how immigration status and family dynamics shape migrants’ agency and their responses to the inevitable challenges of building new lives. They draw attention to the issues created by societal constructs, while highlighting the resources from social institutions of all types: governmental, professional, educational, and faith-based. Emphasizing the experiences of structurally oppressed migrant groups, contributors note the varied ways that capitalism, as well as class, gender, and race, can contribute to inequality in settlement practices.

    Directed at a wide audience of community and government practitioners, policy experts, academics, and civil society activists, Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience illuminates both the impediments to newcomer integration and the ability of newcomers to engage successfully in adaption and resistance.

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    Table of Contents:

    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

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