Migration and Resilience in Urban Canada: Why Social Resilience, Why Now?

Drawing on an extensive review of recent literature about resilience and integration, this paper evaluates a social resilience approach to the integration of international migrants in Canadian cities. We advocate a social resilience approach that acknowledges how institutions of all types play criti...

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Published inJournal of international migration and integration Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 1421 - 1441
Main Authors Preston, Valerie, Shields, John, Akbar, Marshia
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.09.2022
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Comparative studies
COVID-19
Demography
Friendship
Institutions
Integration
Literature reviews
Migrants
Migration
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Neoliberalism
Newcomers
Pandemics
Population Economics
Resilience
Roles
Social Sciences
Sociology
Canada
COVID-19
Social resilience
Institutional support
Integration and migration
Urban Canada
Immigrant-serving organizations
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Summary:Drawing on an extensive review of recent literature about resilience and integration, this paper evaluates a social resilience approach to the integration of international migrants in Canadian cities. We advocate a social resilience approach that acknowledges how institutions of all types play critical roles in newcomers’ efforts to establish their lives in new places, especially when faced with unanticipated events such as a global pandemic. Centering research around the concept of social resilience goes beyond the neoliberal idea that integration is primarily an individual affair achieved with support from friends, family, and a nebulous community and draws attention to the social diversity of migrants and the complexity of their migration and settlement histories. Inherently relational, a social resilience approach encourages comparative studies of integration across cities that can reveal how different institutions and their programs affect migrants’ trajectories. Detailed examinations of local institutions and their responses to shifting selection and integration policies, especially during a pandemic, also hold the potential to provide crucial information for supporting newcomers effectively.
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ISSN:1488-3473
1874-6365
DOI:10.1007/s12134-021-00893-3