Inclusive Resettlement: Integration pathways of resettled families with disabilities in Germany and Canada

My internship will take part of a comparative study aiming at exploring structural conditions and individual integration pathways of resettled refugees with inter-sectional risks of exclusion in Canada and Germany. The study consists of 1) a scoping literature review on resettlement pathways of families with disabilities and 2) mix-method data collection from resettled refugees with disabilities in Germany and Canada. While this project sheds light on the case of resettled families with disabilities, I will also examine the case of resettled single-parent families as my small project relates to the bigger project. In this comparative study, the different contexts will be verified and how the difference affects the experience of refugees with inter-sectional vulnerabilities. This comparative study provides an important fundamental contribution to international forced migration research. In particular, the contrasting of two contexts with different migration histories and social systems offers opportunities for a significant expansion of the level of knowledge on these issues.

Faculty Supervisor:

Masahiro Minami

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Partner:

Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education; Public Service, Policy, and Governance; Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Simon Fraser University

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