Immigrant Lives

Edward Shizha is Professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. His research interests are in migration and transnationalism, racism and racialization, education and indigenous knowledge systems, decolonial theory, and support for immigrants and refugees. He has participated in several studies on support needs of immigrants and refugees and is the author of 13 books, including Living Beyond Borders: Essays on Global Immigrants and Refugee. He has also published several book chapters and journal articles which have been cited widely.Edward Makwarimba is a social scientist with 15+ years' experience working with immigrants and refugees on their settlement and integration needs, and well-being. As Co-Director of the Social Support Research Program, University of Alberta for eleven years, he worked on assessment and intervention support programs promoting the health of varied vulnerable populations including immigrants and refugees. Makwarimba alsoworked for Alberta Health Services as a senior research and evaluation consultant, as well as lead scientist, and has taught at both primary and university levels for several years. He has written numerous reports and academic papers on inclusion and health disparities.

• Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction to transnationalism, intersectionality and migration ecological trajectoriesEdward Shizha and Edward Makwarimba SECTION I: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKSChapter 2: (Re)materializing intersectionality in transnational contextDenise L. SpitzerChapter 3: Rethinking race in research on migration: Transnational literacies as a tool Patriann Smith, S. Joel Warrican, Alex Kumi-Yeboah and Tala Karkar EsperatChapter 4: Decolonizing diaspora studies: Accounting for the transnational and intersectional interventions of 'striking' diasporasIpek DemirChapter 5: 'Do we really belong here?' Transnationalism and the temporality of naturalized citizenshipEdward ShizhaSECTION II: POLICIES GOVERNING TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION AND SETTLEMENT ASIAChapter 6: The Rohingya refugee situation: Seeking accountability, relief, and solutionsBrian Gorlick AUSTRALIA/SOUTH PACIFICChapter 7: 'Irregular' migration, intersectionality and race: The demonization policy of refugees in Australia Dawn BolgerChapter 8: African diasporic migration trends, relocation and resettlement: An Australian perspective Kathomi Gatwiri, Leticia Anderson and Kiros Hiruy UNITED KINGDOMChapter 9: Intersectionality and UK's multiscalar governance approach to race, gender and asylum seeking in Scotland and EnglandEmma HillChapter 10: The Windrush Generation and the British citizenship policyShelene Gomes and Arthur Torrington EUROPEAN UNIONChapter 11: The European Union's Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex): Between impunity and accountabilityOmer KarasapanChapter 12: Data evidence-informed migration policies in Africa and Europe? A transnational perspectiveMarzia Rango and Irene SchöfbergerChapter 13: The (in)coherence of European migration policy: Between securitization and protectionPaloma González del Miño and Concepción Anguita OlmedoChapter 14: Regulating without redistributing? A review of the main EU responses to the 'migrant crisis'Stefano M. Torelli and Anna Longhini NORTH AMERICAChapter 15: How Canada deals with asylum seekers and refugees in theory and practiceHerbert GrubelChapter 16: Intersectionality and the US Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program Karla Rodriguez Beltran and Erin R. Hamilton SECTION III: INTRA-REGIONAL/CONTINENTAL MIGRATION AND IMMIGRANTS' EXPERIENCESChapter 17: Of ranks and peripheries: Weaponizing difference against immigrants in Southern AfricaChristopher Changwe NshimbiChapter 18: Overcoming barriers to informal enterprising: Congolese self-settled refugee women in urban EswatiniGabriel TatiChapter 19: Food self-sufficiency: Evidence from a land security framework to a protracted refugee situation in Uganda Elsemarie Jorissen & Maliamungu Habib Uthuman Chapter 20: The Rohingya exodus to Bangladesh: Livelihood pursuits, hope for assimilation and the associated risksHossain Ahmed Taufiq and Mahmood MuttaqeeChapter 21: Immigration, policies and socio-racial hierarchies: The Latin American experienceLuisa Feline Freier and Leon Lucar Oba SECTION IV: SETTLEMENT, IDENTITIES AND BELONGING IN A HOST COUNTRYChapter 22: Why do ethnic citizens identify more with their cultural groups than with the state in CanadaKon K. MadutChapter 23: Immigrants as potential development resource to countries of origin: A contextual report card on sub-Saharan African newcomers to CanadaPhilomina Okeke-IhejirikaChapter 24: Gender norm attitudes among Nigerian and Angolan migrants in the NetherlandsBilisuma B. Dito and Victor CebotariChapter 25: Transnational lives and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on immigrants, and refugeesEdward ShizhaChapter 26: Access to labour market justice for migrant workers in AustraliaAnna Boucher SECTION V: EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION: FOUNDATIONS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR IMMIGRANT SETTLEMENT AND INTEGRATION Chapter 27: Wastage of human capital? Underutilization of foreign trained immigrant professionals and highly skilled workers in CanadaEdward ShizhaChapter 28: Introducing migrants into urban politics or into urban migrant politics in Spain? Juan Carlos Triviño-SalazarChapter 29: Language training and humanitarian migrants' host language skills: Recent evidence from AustraliaZhiming Cheng, Massimiliano Tani Bertuol, and Ben Zhe WangChapter 30: 'Thou art welcome': The mental well-being of immigrants and refugees in CanadaMagnus Mfoafo-M'CarthyChapter 31: Conclusion: Directions for further migration research, policy making, theorization, and immigrants' settlement and integration programmingEdward Makwarimba and Edward Shizha