Living with Precarious Legal Status in Canada

Implications for the Well-Being of Children and Families

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11404591
AutoresJudith K Bernhard (Toronto Metropolitan University, autor de correspondencia), L Goldring (0000-0001-9211-6745, York University), Julie Young (0000-0003-4032-8089), Julie E E Young (0000-0001-7761-7285, York University), Carolina Berinstein (Digital Research Alliance of Canada), Beth Wilson
Año2007
Páginas101-114
Fecha de publicación2007-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaRefuge Canada s Journal on Refuge (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0229-5113 • E-ISSN: 1920-7336
EditorialYork University Libraries (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.25071/1920-7336.21388
OpenAlexW1564337675
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas42
Referencias citadas12

This study focused on the effects of precarious status on the well-being of fifteen participants with particular attention to their attempts to claim services, their feelings of belonging and sense of social support, and the effects of parents’ status on children. It investigates ways in which the status of one family member can affect the well-being of the entire family. Those who had children reported that the family’s status disadvantaged their children, whether they were Canadian or foreign-born, as parents’ status was used to justify denying children rights to which they are entitled by international, national, and provincial laws. The paper challenges approaches to citizenship and immigration status that fail to consider the implications of legal status for a person’s primary social units and networks

Affect (linguistics · Citizenship · Disadvantaged · Feeling · Immigration · Legal status · Political science · Politics · Social status · Well-being · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology