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A Focused Ethnography Exploring the Experiences of Immigrant Parents' Collaboration with School Personnel to Support Their Child’s Reading Difficulty
DownloadSpring 2021
A strong partnership with immigrant parents can help educators better support students who experience reading difficulties related to complications arising from differing cultural, social, linguistic, and orthographic systems of their native language. Unfortunately, parental involvement is...
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Health Impacts of Climate Change and Air Pollution Exposures on Immigrant, Non- Immigrant, Adolescent and Older Adult Populations in Alberta
DownloadFall 2024
Climate change and air pollution are two critical threats to human health. Various factors can impact a person's vulnerability to these exposures, including low income and a lack of access to high-quality health care. Immigrants have a higher likelihood of experiencing these factors when compared...
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Parents’ Ethnotheories of their Bicultural Children and of Parenting: Interpretive Case Studies with Three Intercultural Couples in Canada
DownloadFall 2021
I conducted three case studies spanning three different Canadian provinces to explore parental perceptions of childhood and childrearing held by parent couples in intercultural marriages in which one spouse was Canadian born and raised and the other was foreign born and raised and immigrated to...
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Transcultural Singing Between Continents: A Multimodal Reflection of Hybridity in the Ukrainian-Canadian Vernacular Song Repertoire
DownloadSpring 2024
This study investigates the degree of multimodal hybridity observed in the collection of Ukrainian-Canadian vernacular songs. It is grounded in the compilation of songs assembled by Robert Klymasz during his field research in the 1960s, conducted among Ukrainian immigrants residing on the...