Research
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Latest funding
- $28,435
Making Friends at the Neighbourhood House: A Qualitative, Longitudinal Examination of Friendship Formation
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $52,306
Making Friends at the Neighbourhood House: A Qualitative, Longitudinal Examination of Friendship Formation
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $29,892
Making friends and connections through community organizations
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
No publications available.
Making Friends at the Neighbourhood House: A Qualitative, Longitudinal Examination of Friendship Formation
Principal investigators: Lauer, Sean R.
Keywords: friendship; community organizations; social infrastructure; neighbourhood houses; settlement houses; social ties and connections; social cohesion and integration;
Making Friends at the Neighbourhood House: A Qualitative, Longitudinal Examination of Friendship Formation
Principal investigators: Lauer, Sean R.
Keywords: friendship; community organizations; social infrastructure; neighbourhood houses; settlement houses; social ties and connections; social cohesion and integration;
Making friends and connections through community organizations
Principal investigators: Lauer, Sean R.
Keywords: asocial society; community organizations; friendship; social connections
Immigrant inclusion in planning practice
Principal investigators: Senbel, Maged W.
Keywords: multi-cultural planning; neigbourhood planning; plural society
Intra-group dynamics and social exclusion: experience of mainland Chinese immigrants to Canada
Principal investigators: Yan, Miu Chung
Keywords: immigrants; Chinese; race relation; settlement; intra-group; diversity; conflict
The possibilities and challenges of a place-based approach to strengthening urban communities: a case study of neighbourhood houses in Vancouver
Principal investigators: Yan, Miu Chung
Keywords: place-based policy; community development; neighbourhood house; settlement house; third sector organization; immigrant integration
Social work with Chinese communities: integration of research and professional practice in a global context
Principal investigators: Lai, Daniel W.L.
Keywords: social work; practice; program development; policy; Chinese; Canada; Canadian; immigrants; communities
The self-other issue in the healing practices of racialized minority youth
Principal investigators: Kumsa, Martha Kuwee B.
Keywords: racialized youth; refugee youth; immigrant youth; youth violence; healing practices; reflexivity; relationality; youth identity; belonging; nationalism; transnationalism; intergroup relations; social exclusion; oppression; discrimination; injustice
Immigration and the structure of cross-ethnic personal ties
Principal investigators: Lauer, Sean R.
Keywords: immigration; social capital; community; marriage
The labour market transitions of newly arrived immigrant youth: a tri-provincial study
Principal investigators: Wilkinson, Lori A.
Keywords: immigrant youth; school-to-work transitions; integration
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