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Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience

Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience

Preston, Valerie
Shields, John
Bedard, Tara

Paperback

Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance, Book 21

General Political ScienceImmigration & RefugeesUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0228026075
ISBN13: 9780228026075
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Dec 16 2025
Pages: 366
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

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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