Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience

Valerie Preston, John Shields, Tara Bedard

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9780228026099
• Subtopic: City Planning & Urban Development
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Figures and Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Half-Title Page 1
• 1 International Migrants, Resistance, and Social Resilience: An Introduction
• Part One | Precarious Status
• Part Two | Temporary Status
• Part Three | Permanent Status
• Part Four: Integration and Gender
• Part Five: Conclusion
• References
• Contributors
• Index