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Latino Immigrant Parents in Canada: Experiences and Adjustment to raising Children in the Absence of the Extended Family
DownloadFall 2013
The Latino population in Canada has been increasing during the past decade accounting for 11% of newcomers in 2011. One of the core values in Latino culture is familism, the family is the main source of support and has an important role in childrearing. This qualitative study focuses on the...
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Spring 2024
Yoho National Park protects the Burgess Shale: a chain of fossil beds in British Columbia bearing what paleontologist and science writer Stephen Jay Gould once called “the world’s most important animal fossils.” They are an extraordinary record of underwater soft-bodied organisms from just after...
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More than Meets the Eye: Immigrant and Refugee Adjustment, Education, and Acculturation in Canada
DownloadSpring 2014
How well immigrants and refugees adjust to Canadian society is critical for their well-being and integration. Using an acculturation development framework and emphasizing a process-oriented and strength-based approach, this dissertation reports on three papers related to immigrant and refugee...
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Fall 2010
In this thesis I consider the role of music in the construction of identity among West African Canadians, focusing on musical taste and performance. Drawing on themes from participant narratives, I look at how music can maintain connections with or reference identities from “home” cultures. ...
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Spring 2012
Immigrant-receiving countries like Canada must meet the challenge of tuberculosis (TB) in their foreign-born populations. One puzzling question is why, despite fluctuating levels of immigration from high incidence source countries, only modest variations in foreign-born TB incidence have been...
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Spring 2022
Canada’s anti-discrimination legal regime is among the oldest and most established in the world. In this thesis, I examine those human rights institutions in Canada that were created to enforce anti-discrimination statutes to determine which system is more accessible to people from marginalized...
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Opioid Prescribing Patterns for Treatment of Acute and Chronic Pain in Rural and Urban British Columbia
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Throughout Canada there has been an increase in both fatal and non-fatal opioid related overdoses, with British Columbia having some of the highest rates. In response to this increase, the Provincial Health Officer of British Columbia declared a public health emergency to mobilize resources to...
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Park Program for New Canadians: A Case Study Process and Outcomes Evaluation of Nature as a Second Language
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The majority of Canadian and American park visitors are Caucasian. Studies in Canada and the US suggest that the under-representation of ethnic minorities in parks may be due to these issues: a lack of friends who can teach them how to go to parks; a lack of multi-lingual information about parks;...
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Fall 2012
Skilled worker immigrants, who are professionals that migrate to Canada for employment purposes, account for a significant proportion of newcomers to Canada each year. Upon arriving in Canada, they quickly learn that the education and experiences obtained in their countries of origin are of...
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Storm surge flooding: risk perception and coping strategies of residents in Tsawwassen, British Columbia
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This thesis examines how residents perceived and coped with storm surge flooding in Tsawwassen, British Columbia. On February 4, 2006 the community experienced a storm surge flood that affected residents within the neighbourhoods of Beach Grove and Boundary Bay Village. This study identifies...