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 also worked 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 trajectories
Edward Shizha and Edward Makwarimba

SECTION I: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS
Chapter 2: (Re)materializing intersectionality in transnational context
Denise L. Spitzer
Chapter 3: Rethinking race in research on migration: Transnational literacies as a tool
Patriann Smith, S. Joel Warrican, Alex Kumi-Yeboah and Tala Karkar Esperat
Chapter 4: Decolonizing diaspora studies: Accounting for the transnational and intersectional interventions of 'striking' diasporas
Ipek Demir
Chapter 5: 'Do we really belong here?' Transnationalism and the temporality of naturalized citizenship
Edward Shizha
SECTION II: POLICIES GOVERNING TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION AND SETTLEMENT
ASIA
Chapter 6: The Rohingya refugee situation: Seeking accountability, relief, and solutions
Brian Gorlick

AUSTRALIA/SOUTH PACIFIC
Chapter 7: 'Irregular' migration, intersectionality and race: The demonization policy of refugees in Australia
Dawn Bolger
Chapter 8: African diasporic migration trends, relocation and resettlement: An Australian perspective
Kathomi Gatwiri, Leticia Anderson and Kiros Hiruy

UNITED KINGDOM
Chapter 9: Intersectionality and UK's multiscalar governance approach to race, gender and asylum seeking in Scotland and England
Emma Hill
Chapter 10: The Windrush Generation and the British citizenship policy
Shelene Gomes and Arthur Torrington

EUROPEAN UNION
Chapter 11: The European Union's Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex): Between impunity and accountability
Omer Karasapan
Chapter 12: Data evidence-informed migration policies in Africa and Europe? A transnational perspective
Marzia Rango and Irene Schöfberger
Chapter 13: The (in)coherence of European migration policy: Between securitization and protection
Paloma González del Miño and Concepción Anguita Olmedo
Chapter 14: Regulating without redistributing? A review of the main EU responses to the 'migrant crisis'
Stefano M. Torelli and Anna Longhini

NORTH AMERICA
Chapter 15: How Canada deals with asylum seekers and refugees in theory and practice
Herbert Grubel
Chapter 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' EXPERIENCES
Chapter 17: Of ranks and peripheries: Weaponizing difference against immigrants in Southern Africa
Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Chapter 18: Overcoming barriers to informal enterprising: Congolese self-settled refugee women in urban Eswatini
Gabriel Tati
Chapter 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 risks
Hossain Ahmed Taufiq and Mahmood Muttaqee
Chapter 21: Immigration, policies and socio-racial hierarchies: The Latin American experience
Luisa Feline Freier and Leon Lucar Oba

SECTION IV: SETTLEMENT, IDENTITIES AND BELONGING IN A HOST COUNTRY
Chapter 22: Why do ethnic citizens identify more with their cultural groups than with the state in
Canada
Kon K. Madut
Chapter 23: Immigrants as potential development resource to countries of origin: A contextual report card on sub-Saharan African newcomers to Canada
Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika
Chapter 24: Gender norm attitudes among Nigerian and Angolan migrants in the Netherlands
Bilisuma B. Dito and Victor Cebotari
Chapter 25: Transnational lives and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on immigrants, and
refugees
Edward Shizha
Chapter 26: Access to labour market justice for migrant workers in Australia
Anna 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 Canada
Edward Shizha
Chapter 28: Introducing migrants into urban politics or into urban migrant politics in Spain?
Juan Carlos Triviño-Salazar
Chapter 29: Language training and humanitarian migrants' host language skills: Recent evidence from Australia
Zhiming Cheng, Massimiliano Tani Bertuol, and Ben Zhe Wang
Chapter 30: 'Thou art welcome': The mental well-being of immigrants and refugees in Canada
Magnus Mfoafo-M'Carthy
Chapter 31: Conclusion: Directions for further migration research, policy making, theorization, and immigrants' settlement and integration programming
Edward Makwarimba and Edward Shizha