Nimo Bokore
Biographic Data
| ID | 5814990 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nimo Bokore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nimo |
| FAMILY NAME | Bokore |
| SIGNATURE | BOKORE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4251-0490 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Trauma and Activism
The global Black Lives Matter movement and COVID-19 pandemic drew attention to the urgency of addressing entrenched structural dynamics such as racialization, gender, and colonization shaping health inequities for diverse racialized people. Canadian community-based research with racialized immigrant women recognized the need to enhance service provider capacity using a strengths-based activism approach to support client health and wellbeing. In t…
Activism and immigrant women’s mental health and wellbeing
In this qualitative community-based research, we explore service providers' use of activism-based resources and the supports they need to use activism as a tool to promote the mental health and wellbeing of racialized immigrant women. 19 service providers working in settlement and mental health services in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada, participated in one of three focus groups. We analyzed the data using a postcolonial feminist lens. Service …
Assessing Virtual Mental Health Access for Refugees during the Covid-19 Pandemic Using the Levesque Client-Centered Framework
During the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health services rapidly transitioned to virtual care. Although such services can improve access for underserved populations, they may also present unique challenges, especially for refugee newcomers. This study examined the multidimensional nature of access to virtual mental health (VMH) care for refugee newcomers during the COVID-19 pandemic, using Levesque et al.'s Client-Centered Framework for Assessing Acc…
Community Service Provider's Stories
In 2020 a global health pandemic began causing significant life challenges for most populations around the world. For vulnerable groups in Canada, like newcomers and refugees, the COVID19 global health crisis amplified pre-existing inequalities and barriers. Given the previous understandings of racial inequality in Canada, we began an online discussion with a group of social service providers to explore how newcomers and refugees are impacted by …
Finding a Space for Me Outside the Stereotypes”
Historical Trauma, Resettlement, and Intervention Strategies
Activism as a feature of mental health and wellbeing for racialized immigrant women in a Canadian context
Although immigrant women bear a disproportionate burden of chronic disease and mental health issues, limited research addresses how to promote their mental wellbeing. The authors first describe grounded theory findings from community-based focus group research with 57 racialized immigrant women in Toronto, Canada that used a critical gender and intersectional lens to explore the links among settlement, wellbeing, and activism. Secondly, a communi…
Female Survivors of African Wars Dealing With the Past and Present
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Female Survivors of African Wars Dealing With the Past and Present
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Activism as a feature of mental health and wellbeing for racialized immigrant women in a Canadian context
Although immigrant women bear a disproportionate burden of chronic disease and mental health issues, limited research addresses how to promote their mental wellbeing. The authors first describe grounded theory findings from community-based focus group research with 57 racialized immigrant women in Toronto, Canada that used a critical gender and intersectional lens to explore the links among settlement, wellbeing, and activism. Secondly, a communi…
Finding a Space for Me Outside the Stereotypes”
Historical Trauma, Resettlement, and Intervention Strategies
Community Service Provider's Stories
In 2020 a global health pandemic began causing significant life challenges for most populations around the world. For vulnerable groups in Canada, like newcomers and refugees, the COVID19 global health crisis amplified pre-existing inequalities and barriers. Given the previous understandings of racial inequality in Canada, we began an online discussion with a group of social service providers to explore how newcomers and refugees are impacted by …
Assessing Virtual Mental Health Access for Refugees during the Covid-19 Pandemic Using the Levesque Client-Centered Framework
During the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health services rapidly transitioned to virtual care. Although such services can improve access for underserved populations, they may also present unique challenges, especially for refugee newcomers. This study examined the multidimensional nature of access to virtual mental health (VMH) care for refugee newcomers during the COVID-19 pandemic, using Levesque et al.'s Client-Centered Framework for Assessing Acc…
Activism and immigrant women’s mental health and wellbeing
In this qualitative community-based research, we explore service providers' use of activism-based resources and the supports they need to use activism as a tool to promote the mental health and wellbeing of racialized immigrant women. 19 service providers working in settlement and mental health services in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada, participated in one of three focus groups. We analyzed the data using a postcolonial feminist lens. Service …
Trauma and Activism
The global Black Lives Matter movement and COVID-19 pandemic drew attention to the urgency of addressing entrenched structural dynamics such as racialization, gender, and colonization shaping health inequities for diverse racialized people. Canadian community-based research with racialized immigrant women recognized the need to enhance service provider capacity using a strengths-based activism approach to support client health and wellbeing. In t…
Migration, Health and Trauma (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Mental health (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Global Health Workforce Issues (4 works) · Medicine (4 works)