A Al-Hamad
Biographic Data
| ID | 53193 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Al-Hamad |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Al-Hamad |
| SIGNATURE | AL-HAMAD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Toronto Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6400-0750 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Why Do Host-Country Residents and Local Hosting Actors Host Refugees? A JBI Scoping Review Protocol on Motivations, Hospitality Practices, Challenges, and Impacts in Private and Community Hosting
Background: Private and community hosting have emerged as important community-based responses to forced displacement, through which host-country citizens provide accommodation, practical support, and relational care to refugees in domestic and community settings. These hosting arrangements extend hospitality beyond commercial and tourism contexts into everyday spaces of welcome, co-living, and social support. Existing literature has examined a ra…
Circuits of Care in Displacement: Hybrid Transnational Health Care Pathways among Older Syrian Refugees in the Greater Toronto Area
Background Older refugees often navigate complex health care needs while aging in resettlement contexts. For Syrian refugees in the Greater Toronto Area and surrounding regions, barriers within the Canadian health care system may shape how care is accessed, coordinated, and supplemented through transnational practices. Objective This study examines how older Syrian refugees aging in the Greater Toronto Area and surrounding regions navigate health…
Preying on Vulnerability: A Document Analysis of Online Sex Work Recruitment of Ukrainian Displaced Women in Canada
War-displaced persons experience significant challenges regarding securing safe employment upon arriving in Canada. The purpose of this study is to deepen the understanding of what is known, or is yet to be discovered, about Ukrainian displaced women and their recruitment into sex work in Canada through online job advertisements. Using predetermined keywords and indicators, social media platforms were searched for employment advertisements based …
Navigating Transnational Healthcare: A Grounded Theory Approach to Understanding Ukrainian Older Adult Refugees in Toronto
Everyday Peace and Displacement: Homestay Hosting as Informal Peacemaking for Displaced Ukrainian Women in Toronto
This study examines how homestay hosting arrangements function as everyday spaces of informal peacebuilding for displaced Ukrainian women resettled in Toronto, Canada. Amid growing global displacement, informal models of refugee reception such as homestays offer unique opportunities for safety, healing, and integration, yet remain underexplored in research and policy. This study draws on a secondary analysis of qualitative data from 18 interviews…
Ukrainian Displaced Women and Sex Work in Canada: A Qualitative Exploration of Experiences
Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Canada has welcomed displaced Ukrainians through federal resettlement initiatives. Faced with challenges in securing employment and housing, some Ukrainian displaced women have engaged in sex work, either voluntarily or as a means of survival. This qualitative study utilizes a critical interpretive phenomenological approach to explore the lived experiences of five Ukrainian displaced women who engaged in se…
Picturing the ambiguity of homestay: A photovoice exploration of Ukrainian refugee women’s experiences with their Canadian hosts in Toronto
This study explores the experiences of Ukrainian refugee women hosted by Canadian families in the Greater Toronto Area, focusing on the dynamics of this unique living arrangement amidst Toronto’s challenging housing situation. Using Feminist Standpoint Theory and a research-creation approach through Photovoice, eighteen Ukrainian refugee women shared and reflected on their experiences via photo elicitation interviews. The analysis, combining visu…
The Lived Experiences of Ukrainian Female Migrants and Sex Work to Make Ends Meet: A Study Protocol
Ukrainian women migrants who moved to Canada to escape the 2022 escalation of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict face challenges to their integration into Canadian society due to their socio-economic vulnerability. As a result, some Ukrainian women find themselves in precarious situations, turning to sex work to make ends meet. Current literature primarily explores how sex work impacts a woman's physical well-being but is lacking in providing a compr…
Home Away From Home”: A Critical Metaphor Analysis of Displaced Ukrainian Women’s Experiences With Their Canadian Hosts
Displaced by the Russian invasion, Ukrainian women face complex challenges in adapting to new environments. This study explores their experiences living in homestay arrangements in Canada, drawing on Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Critical Metaphor Analysis to examine how they express displacement, adaptation, and integration. Eighteen women participated through photo-elicitation interviews, metaphor-building activities using AI-generated images,…
Equitable Aging Among Migrants: A Concept Analysis and Model Development for Transcultural Nursing Care
Introduction: Older migrants often face systemic barriers such as limited access to health care, social support, and culturally appropriate services, which hinder dignified aging. This concept analysis aims to define equitable aging among migrants and develop a model to guide transcultural nursing care. Methodology: Using Walker and Avant’s concept analysis method, a systematic search following PRISMA-ScR guidelines yielded 351 records. After ded…
The impact of Covid-19 on nurses’ job satisfaction: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Unpacking Food and Housing Insecurity: A Study of Ukrainian and Syrian Refugee Women in Canada
Dramatizing Care: An Ethnodrama Into Syrian Refugee Women's Healthcare Challenges and Coping in Ontario, Canada
The complex healthcare struggles faced by Syrian refugee women in Ontario, Canada necessitate innovative methodologies that transcend traditional research dissemination to accurately reflect their diverse lived experiences. Ethnodrama emerges as a potent tool in this context, addressing the noticeable gap in engaging wider audiences-including the refugee women themselves-in the research process through dynamic and impactful knowledge mobilization…
Blossoming Through Creativity: Unveiling Sense of Belonging Among Ukrainian and Syrian Refugee Women in Ontario
Listening to the Voices of Syrian Refugee Women in Canada: An Ethnographic Insight into the Journey from Trauma to Adaptation
Child maltreatment in the family: A European perspective
Child maltreatment is generally referred to under the global categories of physical, sexual, emotional/psychological abuse and neglect. The Concerted Action on the Prevention of Child Abuse in Europe (CAPCAE) reports on the specific forms of harm and injury, actions and persons believed responsible in eight European countries. The most common actions across all participating countries responsible for harm were those of violent parenting or absent…
Residential Movement into Elderly Person Households: Evidence from the 1991 Household Sample of Anonymised Records
In this paper we use data from the 1% British Household Sample of Anonymised Records (SAR) to examine coresident households which have been formed by the movement of people under the age of sixty five into the homes of elderly people. The SAR does not give information on why such moves have taken place. However, an examination of the characteristics of the movers and their elderly receivers, and the relationships between the two, sheds some light…
Migration of Elderly People to Join Existing Households: Some Evidence from the 1991 Household Sample of Anonymised Records
In this paper the extent to which migration of the elderly is linked to changing family living situations is explored. The work described is part of a larger project concerned with the relationship between migration, kinship, and household change. Discussions of the living arrangements of older people have often referred to moves made to join adult children or other relatives. In this paper we use the Household Sample of Anonymised Records to inv…
Child maltreatment in the family: A European perspective
Child maltreatment is generally referred to under the global categories of physical, sexual, emotional/psychological abuse and neglect. The Concerted Action on the Prevention of Child Abuse in Europe (CAPCAE) reports on the specific forms of harm and injury, actions and persons believed responsible in eight European countries. The most common actions across all participating countries responsible for harm were those of violent parenting or absent…
Migration of Elderly People to Join Existing Households: Some Evidence from the 1991 Household Sample of Anonymised Records
In this paper the extent to which migration of the elderly is linked to changing family living situations is explored. The work described is part of a larger project concerned with the relationship between migration, kinship, and household change. Discussions of the living arrangements of older people have often referred to moves made to join adult children or other relatives. In this paper we use the Household Sample of Anonymised Records to inv…
Blossoming Through Creativity: Unveiling Sense of Belonging Among Ukrainian and Syrian Refugee Women in Ontario
Dramatizing Care: An Ethnodrama Into Syrian Refugee Women's Healthcare Challenges and Coping in Ontario, Canada
The complex healthcare struggles faced by Syrian refugee women in Ontario, Canada necessitate innovative methodologies that transcend traditional research dissemination to accurately reflect their diverse lived experiences. Ethnodrama emerges as a potent tool in this context, addressing the noticeable gap in engaging wider audiences-including the refugee women themselves-in the research process through dynamic and impactful knowledge mobilization…
Residential Movement into Elderly Person Households: Evidence from the 1991 Household Sample of Anonymised Records
In this paper we use data from the 1% British Household Sample of Anonymised Records (SAR) to examine coresident households which have been formed by the movement of people under the age of sixty five into the homes of elderly people. The SAR does not give information on why such moves have taken place. However, an examination of the characteristics of the movers and their elderly receivers, and the relationships between the two, sheds some light…
Migration of Elderly People to Join Existing Households: Some Evidence from the 1991 Household Sample of Anonymised Records
In this paper the extent to which migration of the elderly is linked to changing family living situations is explored. The work described is part of a larger project concerned with the relationship between migration, kinship, and household change. Discussions of the living arrangements of older people have often referred to moves made to join adult children or other relatives. In this paper we use the Household Sample of Anonymised Records to inv…
Child maltreatment in the family: A European perspective
Child maltreatment is generally referred to under the global categories of physical, sexual, emotional/psychological abuse and neglect. The Concerted Action on the Prevention of Child Abuse in Europe (CAPCAE) reports on the specific forms of harm and injury, actions and persons believed responsible in eight European countries. The most common actions across all participating countries responsible for harm were those of violent parenting or absent…
Listening to the Voices of Syrian Refugee Women in Canada: An Ethnographic Insight into the Journey from Trauma to Adaptation
The impact of Covid-19 on nurses’ job satisfaction: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Unpacking Food and Housing Insecurity: A Study of Ukrainian and Syrian Refugee Women in Canada
Dramatizing Care: An Ethnodrama Into Syrian Refugee Women's Healthcare Challenges and Coping in Ontario, Canada
The complex healthcare struggles faced by Syrian refugee women in Ontario, Canada necessitate innovative methodologies that transcend traditional research dissemination to accurately reflect their diverse lived experiences. Ethnodrama emerges as a potent tool in this context, addressing the noticeable gap in engaging wider audiences-including the refugee women themselves-in the research process through dynamic and impactful knowledge mobilization…
Blossoming Through Creativity: Unveiling Sense of Belonging Among Ukrainian and Syrian Refugee Women in Ontario
Picturing the ambiguity of homestay: A photovoice exploration of Ukrainian refugee women’s experiences with their Canadian hosts in Toronto
This study explores the experiences of Ukrainian refugee women hosted by Canadian families in the Greater Toronto Area, focusing on the dynamics of this unique living arrangement amidst Toronto’s challenging housing situation. Using Feminist Standpoint Theory and a research-creation approach through Photovoice, eighteen Ukrainian refugee women shared and reflected on their experiences via photo elicitation interviews. The analysis, combining visu…
The Lived Experiences of Ukrainian Female Migrants and Sex Work to Make Ends Meet: A Study Protocol
Ukrainian women migrants who moved to Canada to escape the 2022 escalation of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict face challenges to their integration into Canadian society due to their socio-economic vulnerability. As a result, some Ukrainian women find themselves in precarious situations, turning to sex work to make ends meet. Current literature primarily explores how sex work impacts a woman's physical well-being but is lacking in providing a compr…
Home Away From Home”: A Critical Metaphor Analysis of Displaced Ukrainian Women’s Experiences With Their Canadian Hosts
Displaced by the Russian invasion, Ukrainian women face complex challenges in adapting to new environments. This study explores their experiences living in homestay arrangements in Canada, drawing on Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Critical Metaphor Analysis to examine how they express displacement, adaptation, and integration. Eighteen women participated through photo-elicitation interviews, metaphor-building activities using AI-generated images,…
Equitable Aging Among Migrants: A Concept Analysis and Model Development for Transcultural Nursing Care
Introduction: Older migrants often face systemic barriers such as limited access to health care, social support, and culturally appropriate services, which hinder dignified aging. This concept analysis aims to define equitable aging among migrants and develop a model to guide transcultural nursing care. Methodology: Using Walker and Avant’s concept analysis method, a systematic search following PRISMA-ScR guidelines yielded 351 records. After ded…
Why Do Host-Country Residents and Local Hosting Actors Host Refugees? A JBI Scoping Review Protocol on Motivations, Hospitality Practices, Challenges, and Impacts in Private and Community Hosting
Background: Private and community hosting have emerged as important community-based responses to forced displacement, through which host-country citizens provide accommodation, practical support, and relational care to refugees in domestic and community settings. These hosting arrangements extend hospitality beyond commercial and tourism contexts into everyday spaces of welcome, co-living, and social support. Existing literature has examined a ra…
Circuits of Care in Displacement: Hybrid Transnational Health Care Pathways among Older Syrian Refugees in the Greater Toronto Area
Background Older refugees often navigate complex health care needs while aging in resettlement contexts. For Syrian refugees in the Greater Toronto Area and surrounding regions, barriers within the Canadian health care system may shape how care is accessed, coordinated, and supplemented through transnational practices. Objective This study examines how older Syrian refugees aging in the Greater Toronto Area and surrounding regions navigate health…
Preying on Vulnerability: A Document Analysis of Online Sex Work Recruitment of Ukrainian Displaced Women in Canada
War-displaced persons experience significant challenges regarding securing safe employment upon arriving in Canada. The purpose of this study is to deepen the understanding of what is known, or is yet to be discovered, about Ukrainian displaced women and their recruitment into sex work in Canada through online job advertisements. Using predetermined keywords and indicators, social media platforms were searched for employment advertisements based …
Navigating Transnational Healthcare: A Grounded Theory Approach to Understanding Ukrainian Older Adult Refugees in Toronto
Everyday Peace and Displacement: Homestay Hosting as Informal Peacemaking for Displaced Ukrainian Women in Toronto
This study examines how homestay hosting arrangements function as everyday spaces of informal peacebuilding for displaced Ukrainian women resettled in Toronto, Canada. Amid growing global displacement, informal models of refugee reception such as homestays offer unique opportunities for safety, healing, and integration, yet remain underexplored in research and policy. This study draws on a secondary analysis of qualitative data from 18 interviews…
Ukrainian Displaced Women and Sex Work in Canada: A Qualitative Exploration of Experiences
Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Canada has welcomed displaced Ukrainians through federal resettlement initiatives. Faced with challenges in securing employment and housing, some Ukrainian displaced women have engaged in sex work, either voluntarily or as a means of survival. This qualitative study utilizes a critical interpretive phenomenological approach to explore the lived experiences of five Ukrainian displaced women who engaged in se…
Refugee (9 works) · Ukrainian (9 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works) · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees (4 works)