Notes
Community organizations
Windsor YMCA
Location
Windsor, Ontario
Key findings
Discrimination negatively impacts students’ ability to adapt to and deal with the educational stressors of a new environment. When students experience discrimination, their options are to fight, fawn, or flee—that is, skip school.
Newcomer youths skip school because of both experiences of discrimination and a feeling of loneliness in an environment that seems foreign to them in terms of culture and curriculum.
The length of residency, paid employment, and participation in voluntary activities has effects on increasing truancy (skipping school) -> emphasizes the importance of acculturation, socio-economic status, and time availability.
Refugees’ traumatic experiences of war and conflict do not necessarily result in their inability to function in the new environment <- emotional and social support by the family and community, resiliency, and adaptive skills can buffer such experiences
Key populations
Refugee and newcomer students
Integration timeline
At what point during the integration process the study was conducted?
The majority of students had been in Canada for less than 3 years
