Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Transnational Habitus and Patriarchy in Indian Immigrant Fiction: an Analysis of the Immigrant By Manju Kapur, Desirée Lydia Gomes
The Newcomer Women of Aliddesa: Exploring Practices of Resettlement, Citizenship, and Community Development in Toronto, Shelley Marie Hasho
Multicultural Sexuality: Immigrant Seniors’ Attitudes Towards Sexuality Post Settlement, Zoe Alyssa Hawkins
An Excessive Demand: Immigrants with Disabilities and Medical Admissability in Canada’s Immigration System, Anna Penner
Social Entrepreneurship: an Alternative Means of Funding in the Settlement Sector?, Jaskiran Sahota
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Persian bloggers : exile, nostalgia and diasporic nationalism, Maryam Aghvami
"I want to find a better place" : Assyrian immigrant women and English-language acquisition, Sonya Aslan
Intersections of violence : the role of immigration status in women's experiences of and responses to domestic violence in Canada, Ariane Campbell
Welcoming communities and immigrant integration in Newfoundland and Labrador, Natasha Clark
The "school of life" : differences in U.S. and Canadian settlement policies and their effect on individual immigrants' experience, Annie Laurie Duguay
Immigrant settlement outside of the greater Toronto area : determinants of desirability, Ruby Dumais
Voices of conflict, reconciliation, and transnational belonging : interrogating the events at the II roundtable discussions for Salvadorans in Canada, Denise I-fen Chung Guerrero
Constructed identities and appropriated spaces : an exploratory study of South Asian identity and space in Toronto, Anne Katherine Herteis
"We are chameleons" : exploring identity capital in a multicultural workplace environment, Mabel Ho
Immigrant inclusion in schools : can teacher training make a difference?, Lindsay Kane
Demystifying immigrant youth representations : a look at mainstream and immigrant perspectives within literature and media, Carrie Natsu Kawahatsu
Fair terms of integration in a liberal framework, Anna Kim
What to expect? : examining the role of pre-departure cultural orientations, Ashley Korn
Resettling minority groups : the case of the Somali Bantu, Khwaka Daria Kukubo
Gendered ESL : accommodating immigrant women's cultural diversity in ESL classes, Jennifer Kathleen Landsborough
The extraordinary renditions of Maher Arar and Abdullah Almalki : Orientalism, Islamophobia, and the erosion of citizenship and human rights, Ian Geriant Lane
The role of internet-based social support network in immigrant settlement, Julie Xiaoping Lin
Settling and 'selling' Canada's West : the role of immigration, Johnny Malciw
Racism, the environment, and persecution : environmental refugees in Tuvalu, Natasha Mann
Nourishing place? : immigrant children's "ethnic food" experiences, Kerith Paul
"I don't want to go back" : the complicated case of Polish displaced children to Canada in 1949, Monika Katarzyna Payseur
Interrogating the efficiency paradigm : a study of language analysis as evidence in refugee status determination, Erin Colleen Pease
"Has anyone seen my ancestral language?" Italian linguistic suicide and the transmission of the Italian language in Canada, 1935-1947, Ryan Shadford
The CBC's "Seven wonders of Canada" : exclusionary aspects of a project of national identity, Debbie Starzynski
The self-perceived health status and access to health care services among Korean immigrants in Ottawa, Ontario, Sang-Mi Suh
The Albanian diaspora : immigration and settlement experiences, Valbona Sulemani
The interactive model of ethnic entrepreneurship : a case study of Pacific Mall in Markham, Ontario, Teresa Qianyan WU
Identity retention and sense of belonging : an examination of second generation Eritrean youth in Toronto, Semhar Zerat
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
A Voice: The Role of Child Interpreters in their Parents’ Immigration and Settlement Experience in Canada, Liliana Araujo
Muslims, Soccer, and the Politics of National Identity, Arwa Aulaqi
Multicultural Education from the Private Sphere: Growing Up Filipino-Canadian in a Third-Tier City School, Jennilee Austria
“Bahala Na Ang Dios”: The Church’s Role in the Socialization of Filipinos in the Greater Toronto Area, Mary Grace T. Betsayda
Defeating the Purpose of Multiculturalism: a Case of Hate on Campus, Laura Bettencourt
Opportunities for Employers in Immigrant Labour Market integration: a Case Study of the Canadian Financial Sector, Laura Caroline Burke
Multicultural Nations: Issues of Race and National Identity in Britain and Canada, Nicola Bush
Whose Nature?: Exploring the Link Between Wilderness, Belonging and Residential Summer Camp Use among Canadian Immigrants, Kristen Bustamante
Immigration and Anti-Terrorist Policies: An Analysis of Canada and the United Kingdom, Monica Carreon-Diez
Refugee Health: A Gender Comparison in Health Care Access, Kate Dadey
The Wealth of Immigrants: Expanding our Understanding of Immigrant Economic Integration in Canada, Kimberley J. Dalgleish
Afrocentric Schools Within a Multicultural Context: Exploring Different Attitudes Towards the TDSB Proposal Within The Black Community, Isabelle Ekwa-Ekoko
Intermarriage, Assimilation, and Transnationalism: New Directions, Rebecca Leah Fitt-Ajewole
Parenting Circles Program: The Key Elements for the Meaningful Engagement of Spanish-Speaking Parents to Support their Children’s School Success, Catalina Beatriz Garcia
Selective Expressions of Portugueseness: Notions of Portugueseness among Second Generation Portuguese-Canadian Youth in Toronto, Frederica Gomes
New Orientalism: Depictions of Muslims in the Canadian Media, Hanan Harb
Resilient Teens: Social Exclusion Of Parents And Impact On The Second Generation Eritrean Youth, Fatma Hassan
Francophone Immigrants Leaving Montreal to Settle in Toronto: What Happened and What is Happening?, Julie Dominique Hautin
Racialized Immigrants In Canada’s Changing Labour Market: An Investigation Of The Effects Of Precarious Work On Black Caribbean Women, Maqueita Hibbert
Defining the Field of Immigration Studies: A Preliminary Study of Research Contributions, Olena Ingerova
Immigrant Women Living with Hiv/Aids: Their Barriers as Experienced by Service Providers, Jane Wangari Karago-Odongo
The strategies of Polish immigrant women in their search for entry into the professional labour market in Canada, Magdalena Maria Kazmierczak
LGBTQ Immigrant Exclusion: An Introduction, Johanna Laing
Do Not Disturb/Please Clean Room: The Invisible Work and Real Pain of Hotel Housekeepers in the GTA, Sirena Liladrie
Nova Scotia’s Provincial Immigration Policy: The Failure of the Business Mentorship Program, Patricia Lynn McDonough
Welcoming the Stranger: The Canadian Church and the Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program, Christine McKinlay
Latino Youth and Machismo: Working Towards a More Complex Understanding of Marginalized Masculinities, Ramon Meza Opazo
Community Arts Programming as a Factor in Newcomer Youth Inclusion: The Toronto Situation, Adriann Moss
New Migration Motives and New Settlement Challenges: Integration Experience of Korean Immigrants in the Toronto CMA, Byung Chun Oh
Provincial Immigration Policies: The Case of Ontario’s Pilot PNP, Radostina Pavlova
Canada’s Response to the “War on Terror”: A New Era of National Security, Erosion of Rights and Racial Injustice, Waheeda Rahman
The Tourism-Migration Nexus: Towards a Theory of Global Human Mobility, Nicolas Clemens Wilhelm Rode
Race, Space and Place: Exploring Toronto’s Regent Park from a Marxist Perspective, Jaihun Sahak
Whiteness, Orientalism and Immigration: A Critique of Two Iranian Exilic Memoirs, Sara Saljoughi
“Orgulhosamente Sós:” Recent Immigration to the Portuguese Republic, Joao Carlos GDS Simões
"You Have to Have Tough Skin": The Impact of Social Exclusion on Immigrant Mothers of Children with Disabilities, M. Majella Skrinda
Humanitarian Dilemmas for the Palestinian Refugees & the Question of Return, Lina Smoum
Moving around the world : Russian Jews from Israel in Toronto, Lea Soibelman
Negotiating success or settling for less? : deconstructing the underachievement of Afro-Caribbean youth in Toronto high schools, Pasha Stennett
Attraction and Retention of Immigrants in Small Centres: The Case of Kingston, Ontario, Sarah Thurston
Immigration and Refugee Board acceptance of Russian Jews from Israel, Inna Tsinman
A History of Marginalization - Africville: a Canadian Example of Forced Migration, Mary Pamela Vincer
“Hey Cabbie! Where are you From?” An Examination of Everyday Racism in Toronto’s Taxi Industry, Jessica Walters
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Re/claiming our identities : thinking through Islamophobia, the veil, and "the Muslim woman" in Canadian cultural productions, Ameera Basmadji
Interpreting the other other : assessing refugee claims based on sexual orientation in an anti-refugee climate, Shawn J. Dicks
Access to professions : the experience of Japanese immigrants in Canada, Yukari Hayakawa
The barriers faced by recent immigrant women in Hamilton and Toronto's rental housing markets, Ashley Gail Lawrence
Government-assisted Refugees in Toronto's LINC Classes: An Exploration of Perceived Needs an Barriers, Dunja Metikos Debeljacki
Long walk to safety : experiences of refugee claimants with Canada's refugee policies and practices, Kamau Ngugi
Deportation in perspective : constructions of a nation and ideal citizens, Neha Patel
Lost in translation? : coverage of the federal election campaign in selected ethnic press in the greater Toronto area, Aldith Dahlia Phillips
Interrogating "Indianness" : identity and diasporic consciousness among South Asian twice migrants in Canada, Omme-Salma Rahemtullah
Stripping Them of Legal Status: The Making and Unmaking of the Exotic Dancer Visa Program, Alise Rimniceanu
Dual citizenship in the context of globalization, identity and belonging debate, Igor Rosic
Transnational resistance or cultural exotica? : interrogating the multicultural accommodation of the Kufiya, Nashwa Salem
The challenge of refugee determination in a self-interested world, Parminder Singh