Asian Families in Canada and the United States

Asian Families in Canada and the United States
Author: Susan S. Chuang
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2021-04-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030564525

This book presents a comprehensive overview of Asian families residing in Canada and the United States by portraying and analyzing Asian Canadian and Asian American immigrant families in an integrated yet nuanced way. Chapters use an interdisciplinary approach to provide more comprehensive coverage of the vast diversity as well as common trends and shared characteristics of Asian families. Specifically, the volume examines the experiences of families whose ancestry can be traced to East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and West Asia. Key areas of coverage include: Integrated overview of Asian American and Asian Canadian families, including an exploration of the historical and current immigration policies. Experiences of families of East Asian, Southeast Asian, South Asian, and West Asian ancestry across Canada and the United States. Asian religious traditions and worldviews, traditional practices, and religio-cultural views on gender, sexuality, and family. Specific Asian immigrant groups on immigration demographics, family dynamics and relationships, gendered roles, parenting practices and beliefs, and implications for mental health. Challenges and issues that families face as Asians and immigrants, the strength and resilience of families, with extensive reviews on various intervention and prevention programs. Methodological strategies in investigating Asian families and their impact on the field. Asian Families in Canada and the United States is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, graduate students as well as clinicians, professionals, and policymakers in the fields of developmental, social, and cross-cultural psychology, parenting and family studies, social work, and all interrelated disciplines.

Identifying as Arab in Canada

Identifying as Arab in Canada
Author: Houda Asal
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2020-10-11T00:00:00Z
Genre: History
ISBN: 1773634356

While “Arabs” now attract considerable attention – from media, the state, and sociological studies – their history in Canada remains little known. Identifying as Arab in Canada begins to rectify this invisibilization by exploring the migration from Machrek (the Middle East) to Canada from the late 19th century through the 1970s. Houda Asal breathes life into this migratory history and the people who made the journey, and examines the public, collective existence they created in Canada in order to understand both the identity Arabs have constructed for themselves here, and the identity that has been constructed for them by the Canadian state. Using archival research, media analysis, laws and statistics, and a series of interviews, Asal offers a thorough examination of the institutions these migrants and their descendants built, and the various ways they expressed their identity and organized their religious, social and political lives. Identifying as Arab in Canada offers an impressively researched, but accessibly written, much-needed glimpse into the long history of the Arab population in Canada.

Arabs in Canada

Arabs in Canada
Author: Raja G. Khouri
Publisher: Virago Press
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN:

This groundbreaking work identifies the challenges facing the Canadian-Arab community vis-a-vis racism, integration, government policy and community building. The first Part provides a comprehensive snapshot of the position of Arabs in Canada in a post September 11 world. The second Part outlines the internal and external barriers to community development from a conflict management framework. Together, these primary narratives provide insight into an often-misunderstood community.

Results from the 2016 Census

Results from the 2016 Census
Author: Thomas Anderson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 11
Release: 2019
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN:

"Today, Insights on Canadian Society is releasing a study based on 2016 Census data. This study uses census information on geography, housing and income to provide a profile of Indigenous people living in Canadian cities. Information from previous censuses is also used to provide comparisons over time"--Page 1.