“Can Someone Help Me?” Refugee Women’s Experiences of Using Settlement Agencies to Find Work in Canada

No abstract is available for this paper.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Journal of International Migration and Integration

• Publication date

  2020-03-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Political Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1007/s12134-019-00729-1
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Safe Employment Integration of Recent Immigrants and Refugees

  2020cited by this paper
• The occupational health and safety vulnerability of recent immigrants accessing settlement services

  2018cited by this paper
• 937 Safe employment integration of newcomers to canada

  2018cited by this paper
• Resettling Syrian Refugees in Canada: Challenges Faced by Nongovernmental Service Providers

  2018cited by this paper
• Triple Disadvantage?

  2018cited by this paper
• Occupational Health and Safety Vulnerability of Recent Immigrants and Refugees

  2018cited by this paper
• Water Quality and Brain Function

  2017cited by this paper
• Employment in a “Land of Opportunity?” Immigrants’ Experiences of Racism and Discrimination in the Australian Workplace

  2017cited by this paper
• Pathways between under/unemployment and health among racialized immigrant women in Toronto

  2017cited by this paper
• Precarious Employment and Difficult Daily Commutes

  2017cited by this paper
• Examining the Experiences of Government Assisted Refugee Women with Settlement Services in Kitchener-Waterloo

  2016cited by this paper
• Understanding Job Status Decline among Newcomers to Canada

  2016cited by this paper
• Cross-Sector Partnerships in the Provision of Services to New Immigrants in Canada: Characteristics, Relevance and Constraints

  2016cited by this paper
• Refugee community organizations in Canada: From the margins to the mainstream? A challenge and opportunity for social workers

  2015cited by this paper
• Settlement Experiences of Professional Immigrant Women in Canada, USA, UK and Australia

  2015cited by this paper
• “Teaching Somebody to Fish”: Implications for Immigrant-Serving Organizations and Employment in Edmonton and Winnipeg

  2015cited by this paper
• The Psychological Experience of Refugees: A Gender and Cultural Analysis

  2015cited by this paper
• Neither Temporary, Nor Permanent: The Precarious Employment Experiences of Refugee Claimants in Canada

  2014cited by this paper
• Refugees, Social Capital, and Labour Market Integration in the UK

  2014cited by this paper
• ‘Yes, we can; but together’: social capital and refugee resettlement

  2014cited by this paper
• Immigrant workers in the immigrant service sector: segmentation and career mobility in Canada and Germany

  2014cited by this paper
• Nonprofit engagement with provincial policy officials: The case of NGO policy voice in Canadian immigrant settlement services

  2014cited by this paper
• Decomposing Immigrants’ Economic Integration in Earnings Disparity: Racial Variations in Unexpected Returns

  2013cited by this paper
• The Interlocking Oppressions of Employment-related Discrimination for Internationally Trained Engineers in Canada

  2013cited by this paper
• Immigrant Employment Success in Canada: Examining the Rate of Obtaining a Job Match

  2013cited by this paper
• The Burden of Being “Employable”

  2013cited by this paper
• Delicate dances: immigrant workers' experiences of injury reporting and claim filing

  2012cited by this paper
• Struggle for Recognition: Bosnian Refugees’ Employment Experiences in Sweden

  2012cited by this paper
• The Social Reconstruction of “Home” among African Immigrants in Canada

  2012cited by this paper
• Predicting Immigrant Employment Sequences in the First Years of Settlement 1

  2012cited by this paper
• Social Capital and Economic Integration of Visible Minority Immigrants in Canada

  2012cited by this paper
• In Search of a Better Life: The Experiences of Working Poor Immigrants in Vancouver, Canada

  2012cited by this paper
• ‘Survival Employment’: Gender and Deskilling among African Immigrants in Canada

  2012cited by this paper
• Volunteering with Newcomers: The Perspectives of Canadian- and Foreign-born Volunteers

  2012cited by this paper
• Immigrant Youth and Employment: Lessons Learned from the Analysis of LSIC and 82 Lived Stories

  2011cited by this paper
• Queue the Rhetoric: Refugees, Resettlement and Reform

  2011cited by this paper
• “Looking for Work But Nothing Seems to Work”: The Job Search Strategies of Internationally Trained Engineers in Canada

  2011cited by this paper
• Canadian Immigrants’ Access to a First Job in Their Intended Occupation

  2010cited by this paper
• Gender and the Division of Labor

  2010cited by this paper
• Difference, deficiency, and devaulation: Tracing the roots of non-recognition of foreign credentials for immigrant professionals in Canada

  2009cited by this paper
• Divisions of Labor in Mexican Origin and Anglo Families: Structure and Culture

  2009cited by this paper
• Fatherhood in the Canadian Context: Perceptions and Experiences of Sudanese Refugee Men

  2009cited by this paper
• Irish Pro-Migrant Nongovernmental Organizations and the Politics of Immigration

  2009cited by this paper
• The trials and tribulations of partnerships in refugee settlement services in Australia

  2009cited by this paper
• Marking Difference and Negotiating Belonging: Refugee Women, Volunteering and Employment

  2008cited by this paper
• Voting With Their Feet

  2008cited by this paper
• Multicultural Meanings of Social Support among Immigrants and Refugees

  2008cited by this paper
• Refugee Integration in Canada: A Survey of Empirical Evidence and Existing Services

  2007cited by this paper
• Employment Niches for Recent Refugees: Segmented Labour Market in Twenty-first Century Australia

  2006cited by this paper
• Travelling tales and migratory meanings: South Asian migrant women talk of place, health and healing

  2006cited by this paper
• “When is my Dutch good enough?” Experiences of refugee women with Dutch labour organizations

  2006cited by this paper
• Building Capacity for Social Justice - Unsettled - Legal and Policy Barriers for Newcomers to Canada

  2006cited by this paper
• Immigrant and Refugee Serving Organizations in a Canadian City: An Exploratory Study

  2006cited by this paper
• Assessment of issues facing immigrant and refugee families.

  2005cited by this paper
• Intersection of Canadian Policy Parameters Affecting Women with Precarious Immigration Status: A Baseline for Understanding Barriers to Health

  2005cited by this paper
• Gender, work and migration: Deskilling chinese immigrant women in Canada

  2004cited by this paper
• Newcomer Services in the Greater Toronto Area: an Exploration of the Range and Funding Sources of Settlement Services

  2004cited by this paper
• Bosnian refugee women in (re)settlement: gender relations and social mobility

  2003cited by this paper
• A needs-based model for settlement service delivery for newcomers to Canada

  2002cited by this paper
• The Division of Household Labor.

  1996cited by this paper
• Feminist Grounded Theory: An Exploration of the Congruency and Tensions between Two Traditions in Knowledge Discovery

  1995cited by this paper
• Ethical and Epistemological Tensions in Applying A Postmodern Perspective to Feminist Research

  1992cited by this paper
• Objectivity and truth: Problems in doing feminist research☆

  1983cited by this paper
• Precarious Work Experiences of Racialized Immigrant Woman in Toronto: A Community- Based Study

  1969cited by this paper
• The Discovery of Grounded Theory

  1967cited by this paper

• Weathering the storm: Career development stories of Syrian refugee women in Türkiye

  2026cites this paper
• A salutogenic approach to aspects facilitating female immigrants' establishment in working life: an integrative literature review

  2025cites this paper
• Mentoring immigrant job seekers: a socialization perspective

  2025cites this paper
• The Short-Term Labour Market Outcome of Resettled Refugees in Canada: A Comparison of Admission Category, Destination Size, and Settlement Services Usage

  2025cites this paper
• The role of time for refugees’ work: insights from a systematic literature review

  2025cites this paper
• Provision of employment-related settlement services and relationship with paid employment for immigrants in Canada

  2025influential citation
• Employment Integration of Recent Immigrants in a Canadian Mid‐Sized City: An Emerging Model

  2025cites this paper
• Towards Activation or Inactivation? Migrants’ Experiences of Encounters with the Swedish Public Employment Service

  2025cites this paper
• Examining Structural and Social Supports Offered to Resettled Refugees in 10 Host Countries – A Scoping Review Acknowledging Health in All Policies

  2025cites this paper
• Barriers to accessing social support at refugee-serving humanitarian organizations: a descriptive phenomenological study of Yemeni refugee women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  2024cites this paper
• Longitudinal photovoice examination of workplace experiences for Congolese refugee women in the United States

  2024cites this paper
• A multilevel review of the psychological and emotional challenges faced by skilled migrants: Extending the psychological toll model

  2024cites this paper
• Negotiating fit into host country work settings: Understanding the interplay between the past and the present in the accounts of skilled refugees

  2024cites this paper
• “It Sounds Like You Don’t Want to Help Me”: How Everyday Bordering in Settlement Services Impacts Immigrant Women in Canada

  2024cites this paper
• Online Employment Services for Immigrant Professionals: An Environmental Scan

  2024cites this paper
• Pre-Employment Mentoring Programs and Immigrant Labor Market Integration

  2024cites this paper
• Beyond job placement: careers for refugees

  2023cites this paper
• Labor market integration of refugees: An institutional country-comparative perspective

  2023cites this paper
• Action, Reaction and Resignation: How Refugee Women and Support Organisations Respond to Labour Market Integration Challenges during the Covid-19 Pandemic

  2023cites this paper
• Activism and immigrant women’s mental health and wellbeing: Building Canadian service provider capacity in the settlement and mental health sectors

  2023cites this paper
• Managing mentoring for the labor market integration of humanitarian migrants

  2023cites this paper
• Neo-liberalizing social service provision: Reactions and responses to the limits and constraints of housing and settlement services for refugees in Toronto, Canada

  2023cites this paper
• The role and challenges of public service organisations in the labour market integration of refugees: A relational perspective analysing integration measures in Austria, Finland, Germany and Sweden

  2022cites this paper
• Linguistic Challenges of Fieldwork for First-Generation Ethnic Researchers

  2022cites this paper
• Disentangling assumptions: refugee women’s access to and use of social assistance in Canada

  2022cites this paper
• Should Canada Pay for Refugee Healthcare? A Social Justice Analysis of the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP)

  2022cites this paper
• Evaluating the Effect of the Matching Grant Program for Refugees: An Observational Study Using Matching, Weighting, and the Mantel-Haenszel Test

  2022cites this paper
• Refugee Solutions in the Age of Global Crisis

  2022cites this paper
• Navigating Uncertainties: Evaluating the Shift in Canadian Immigration Policies during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  2022cites this paper
• A systematic literature review of service-related research on refugees

  2022cites this paper
• Barriers to education and employment among Arabic speaking refugee and immigrant women

  2022cites this paper
• Structures and Strategies for Social Integration: Privately Sponsored and Government Assisted Refugees

  2021cites this paper
• Employment integration experiences of Syrian refugee women arriving through Canada’s varied refugee protection programmes

  2021cites this paper
• Immigrant status, gender and work disability duration: findings from a linked, retrospective cohort of workers’ compensation and immigration data from British Columbia, Canada

  2021cites this paper
• Differences in Work Disability Duration for Immigrants and Canadian-Born Workers in British Columbia, Canada

  2021cites this paper
• Exploring the impacts of the COVID‐19 crisis for the employment prospects of refugees and people seeking asylum in Australia

  2021cites this paper
• Mirrored Social Representations of Canadian Caseworkers with Migratory Paths Intervening with Refugees in the Host Country

  2021cites this paper
• From Independence to dependence: Experiences of Syrian refugees

  2020cites this paper
• Literature Review on Best Practices in Government-Funded Services Supporting the Resettlement and Integration of Government-Assisted Refugees

  2020cites this paper
• Employment for women with refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds in Australia: An overview of workforce participation and available support programmes

  2020cites this paper