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I Am because We Are - Amplifying Sub-Saharan African Immigrants' Resilience and Ability to Thrive
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SSHRC PG awarded 2021: Despite Sub-Saharan Africans' (SSAIs) significant size and growth over the past half century, they are poorly understood and underserved by mainstream immigrant settlement and integration services, Canadian institutions, and academia, at large. The Partnership for Research on African Newcomers (PRAN) will challenge, expand and make more inclusive current approaches to immigration research and service provision. Based on both longstanding and emerging collaborations with an interdisciplinary, diverse array of scholarly expertise, including feminism, resilience, Western-based worldviews, and African-centered approaches, we bring together academics, community-based entities and government agencies across Canada and beyond, to co-conduct innovative research, co-create viable strategies and options, and co-build capacity to amplify SSAI resilience and ability to thrive in Canada. PRAN will 1) investigate the meanings, values, forms and strategies of SSAI resilience; 2) examine systemic barriers (e.g. gender relations and processes of racialization) to resilience, and 3) to collaboratively explore and develop new services and policies to optimize SSAI outcomes. Anchored in a participatory action research approach, PRAN will pursue its research, training and knowledge mobilization (KM) objectives through a five-year strategy whose highlights include a national survey, a four-year, four-city, mixed methods longitudinal study and community-based research, an innovative Gender Institute for Capacity Building, and multi-pronged, multi-media KM strategy to co-construct evidence-based strategies for optimizing settlement and integration outcomes for SSAIs.
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- 2021-02-08
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- Partnership Grant
- PG
- SSHRC
- African Migrants
- Resilience
- Communalism
- Gendered Intersections
- Transnationals
- Participatory Action Research
- Constructivist Grounded Theory
- Mixed Methods
- Mobility
- Women's Studies
- Community Development
- Cultural Geography
- Social Geography
- Immigration
- Gender
- Multiculturalism
- Ethnic Studies
- 1900AD-2000AD
- 2000AD-2028AD
- North America
- Africa
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- Research Material
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- ©️Okeke-Ihejirika, Philomina. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2028.