Sulaimon Giwa
Biographic Data
| ID | 643275 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sulaimon Giwa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sulaimon |
| FAMILY NAME | Giwa |
| SIGNATURE | GIWA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8076-0277 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Applying Trauma-Informed Research Guidelines to Qualitative Health Research
This article builds on our experience conducting qualitative health research to provide specific trauma-informed interview skills for researchers. Our discussion, contextualized through the Trauma-Informed Qualitative Research Guidelines (TIRGs) developed in an earlier article, uses composite examples to illustrate specific interview approaches. We focus on three TIRGs: preparing for the qualitative interview, extending safety and trust during th…
Student perceptions on learning from participating in low-cost service-learning course assignments
There exist many descriptions of how service-learning benefits higher learning. However, these usually involve large-scale and well-funded projects that are not easily exported. We conducted a secondary analysis of student reflection papers to better understand what was learned from participating in low-cost service-learning projects. Through collaborations with community-based organizations, student learning goals were to enhance aptitudes for r…
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health of African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) People in Canada
Making live and letting die
Making live and letting die
The paper analyses how the Nepali state imposed its sovereign power on the Nepali returning migrant workers from India during the COVID-19 pandemic.Through the deployment of border security forces, the state resorted to arbitrary detentions of these workers, leaving them stranded at Nepal-India borders.They were no longer wanted in India while being rejected and excluded by the state.To demonstrate the state's exclusionary bordering practices, we…
MSW Students’ Perception of the Professional Identity of the Social Work Practitioner and the Social Work Researcher
Social work professional ethics require research-informed practice and practice-informed research. Anecdotal evidence, however, suggests that social work practitioners do not identify themselves with research even though research training is a requirement in social work education. Using Structured Interview Matrix methodology, the study explored MSW students’ (n=188) perceptions of the professional identity of the social worker and the social wor…
The sky is the limit. So I just hope, one day, I will reach my destiny
This qualitative study utilized arts-based methods to explore how LGBTQ + migrants in South Africa reconcile their expectations with their post-migration realities. Twenty-six pictures, created by LGBTQ + migrants (ages 19-39), were analyzed with their accompanying narratives to document participants’ experiences. Thematic and narrative analyses starting with the sensitizing concepts of hope, uncertainty, and disillusionment yielded three themes:…
Racism and Gay Men of Color
Sulaimon Giwa’s aptly named Racism and Gay Men of Color arrives at a time when many of the sociocultural issues it raises have come to national attention. Yet gay men of color in Canadian GLBT communities are still subject to racism and excluded, both online and offline. If a gay man of color is not the “right” color, he is often the recipient of stereotypical racial epithets and denied sexual approbation within an erotic world where sexual desir…
Workplace Experiences of Lesbian and Bisexual Female Police Officers in the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary
Research into Canadian workplace experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) public safety personnel is scant. This exploratory ethnographic study examined reasons for lesbian and bisexual female officers joining the police, their shared workplace experiences, perceived career barriers based on sexual orientation, and perceptions of police leadership in advancing the inclusion of LGBTQ officers in the profession. Informe…
Self-Reported Coping Strategies for Managing Work-Related Stress among Public Safety Personnel
Public safety personnel (PSP) experience a disproportionately high number of on-the-job stressors compared to the general population. PSP develop self-initiated actions, or coping strategies, that either confront the situation (approach strategies) or avoid the situation (avoidance strategies) to reduce the impact of stressors on their well-being. Understanding how PSP cope with stress is critical to ensuring their safety and that of the public. …
Analysis of “Yes” Responses to Uniformed Police Marching in Pride
Recently, a number of Canadian police forces have been banned from Pride parades. A ban on uniformed police in these parades has proven to be contentious; the general public and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and plus (LGBTQ+) communities have been split on the issue. Limited research has examined the perspectives of the general population or, until now, LGBTQ+ people on this matter. Using an online survey designed to gather ideas or…
Family, friendship, and strength among LGBTQ+ migrants in Cape Town, South Africa
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how migrants in South Africa identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or with other diverse sexual orientations or gender identities (LGBTQ+) describe and understand their pre-migration family experiences and how family and other social relationships facilitated strength during post-migration. We conducted six focus groups, consisting of both morning and afternoon sessions, wh…
Religiousness, Support, Distal Stressors, and Psychological Distress among Black Sexual Minority College Students
Guided by intersectionality theory, we examined the prevalence and influence of various types of stressors and support on the mental health of Black sexual minorities, paying special attention to the role of families. We used a United States national sample of 1,123 Black sexual minority college students drawn from the Collegiate Center for Mental Health 2013-2014 data set. Participants reported a range of sexual identities, with the minority of …
The Settlement and Integration Experience of Temporary Foreign Workers Living in an Isolated Area of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Are the needs of racialized lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer newcomers in Newfoundland and Labrador being met? Preliminary findings from a focus group discussion with Canadian stakeholde…
This qualitative case study explored whether the settlement and integration needs of racialized lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) newcomers were being met. A total of eight stakeholders, representing either a settlement organization or an LGBTQ‐serving organization in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, participated in an invitation‐only focus group discussion. Informed by intersectionality theory and using thematic analysis o…
Those tablets, they are finding an empty stomach’
Objectives: HIV prevalence among sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals in South Africa is among the highest in the world; however, SGM migrants, an especially vulnerable subgroup of both the SGM and migrant populations, have frequently been overlooked in the country's robust public health response. This qualitative study, guided by syndemics theory, explored the processes by which SGM migrants in South Africa are exposed to HIV risk and th…
Racial Erasure
We are children like others
Despite the well-documented prevalence of rape as a strategy of war, little is known about the specific psychological consequences to children born of conflict-related sexual violence. The results of data analysis of 7 focus groups and 60 in-depth interviews with children born of genocidal rape in Rwanda indicated that they are carrying the trauma of their own stigmatization and marginalization, are burdened with their mothers' trauma, and, we co…
I Asked Myself If I Would Ever Love My Baby”
The 1994 Rwandan genocide was characterized by brutal acts of widespread sexual violence against women that, for some, led to unwanted pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood. This study explores the perspectives and experiences of 44 Rwandan women with children born of genocidal rape through in-depth qualitative interviews. Emerging from the data are the themes of identity and belonging, ambivalence, and truth-telling in the mother-child relations…
Positive enough? A content analysis of settlement service organizations' inclusivity of LGBTQ immigrants
Little is known about how effective Canadian settlement organizations are in meeting the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) immigrants. The authors conducted a two-stage content analysis of the inclusion of LGBTQ immigrants in 34 settlement organizations in Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador, and on the delivery of services by nine settlement organizations that self-described as LGBTQ-positive spaces. S…
Community policing in racialized communities
Despite lack of strong empirical evidence about its effectiveness, community policing remains the approach of choice for police organizations in managing the complexity of crime and neighborhood disorder. It is also the preferred strategy for improving relations between police and racialized communities. Anchored in ongoing public conversations and protests about the tense relationships between police and racialized communities, this article offe…
Coming Out Under the Gun
Over the past decade, human rights activists have documented the increase in refugee claims related to sexual orientation and gender identity. Refugee claims processes have been found to result in negative psychological consequences for claimants in general; however, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals have the added burden of ‘proving’ that they are members of a sexual or gender minority group. Despite this unique requireme…
You see, one day they cut
It is estimated that more than 200 million women alive today have undergone female genital cutting (FGC). While emerging evidence shows that attitudes toward FGC may evolve for immigrants as they acculturate to the host country, scant empirical research explores how women come to oppose the practice. This qualitative study used grounded theory methods to explore the trajectory of resistance to FGC for seven women circumcised in childhood who soug…
Community Policing—A Shared Responsibility
Racial discrimination in policing and its effect on police/minority youth relations were explored in a federally funded Canadian race relations initiative, using semistructured dialogue and voice-centered relational data analysis. Participants were frontline police officers and male youth of color. For enhancing communication between the groups, findings emphasized ongoing, face-to-face interaction. Substantial related concerns were the need for …
Challenging Settler Colonialism in Contemporary Queer Politics
By centralizing the experiences of seven, urban, self-identified Two-Spirit Indigenous people in Toronto, this paper addresses the settler-colonial complexities that arise within contemporary queer politics: how settler colonialism has seeped into Pride Toronto's contemporary Queer politics to normalize White queer settler subjectivities and disavow Indigenous Two-Spirit subjectivities. Utilizing Morgensen's settler homonationalism, the authors u…
Race Relations and Racism in the LGBTQ Community of Toronto
This article explores race relations and racism within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community of Toronto, Ontario, from the perspective of seven gay/queer social service providers of color. Social constructions of race, race relations, and racism were placed at the centre of analysis. Employing interpretive phenomenological analysis, findings indicated that intergroup and broader systemic racism infiltrates the LGBTQ…
Coming Out Under the Gun
Over the past decade, human rights activists have documented the increase in refugee claims related to sexual orientation and gender identity. Refugee claims processes have been found to result in negative psychological consequences for claimants in general; however, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals have the added burden of ‘proving’ that they are members of a sexual or gender minority group. Despite this unique requireme…
Racial Erasure
I Asked Myself If I Would Ever Love My Baby”
The 1994 Rwandan genocide was characterized by brutal acts of widespread sexual violence against women that, for some, led to unwanted pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood. This study explores the perspectives and experiences of 44 Rwandan women with children born of genocidal rape through in-depth qualitative interviews. Emerging from the data are the themes of identity and belonging, ambivalence, and truth-telling in the mother-child relations…
Positive enough? A content analysis of settlement service organizations' inclusivity of LGBTQ immigrants
Little is known about how effective Canadian settlement organizations are in meeting the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) immigrants. The authors conducted a two-stage content analysis of the inclusion of LGBTQ immigrants in 34 settlement organizations in Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador, and on the delivery of services by nine settlement organizations that self-described as LGBTQ-positive spaces. S…
Community policing in racialized communities
Despite lack of strong empirical evidence about its effectiveness, community policing remains the approach of choice for police organizations in managing the complexity of crime and neighborhood disorder. It is also the preferred strategy for improving relations between police and racialized communities. Anchored in ongoing public conversations and protests about the tense relationships between police and racialized communities, this article offe…
We are children like others
Despite the well-documented prevalence of rape as a strategy of war, little is known about the specific psychological consequences to children born of conflict-related sexual violence. The results of data analysis of 7 focus groups and 60 in-depth interviews with children born of genocidal rape in Rwanda indicated that they are carrying the trauma of their own stigmatization and marginalization, are burdened with their mothers' trauma, and, we co…
Those tablets, they are finding an empty stomach’
Objectives: HIV prevalence among sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals in South Africa is among the highest in the world; however, SGM migrants, an especially vulnerable subgroup of both the SGM and migrant populations, have frequently been overlooked in the country's robust public health response. This qualitative study, guided by syndemics theory, explored the processes by which SGM migrants in South Africa are exposed to HIV risk and th…
Family, friendship, and strength among LGBTQ+ migrants in Cape Town, South Africa
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how migrants in South Africa identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or with other diverse sexual orientations or gender identities (LGBTQ+) describe and understand their pre-migration family experiences and how family and other social relationships facilitated strength during post-migration. We conducted six focus groups, consisting of both morning and afternoon sessions, wh…
You see, one day they cut
It is estimated that more than 200 million women alive today have undergone female genital cutting (FGC). While emerging evidence shows that attitudes toward FGC may evolve for immigrants as they acculturate to the host country, scant empirical research explores how women come to oppose the practice. This qualitative study used grounded theory methods to explore the trajectory of resistance to FGC for seven women circumcised in childhood who soug…
Applying Trauma-Informed Research Guidelines to Qualitative Health Research
This article builds on our experience conducting qualitative health research to provide specific trauma-informed interview skills for researchers. Our discussion, contextualized through the Trauma-Informed Qualitative Research Guidelines (TIRGs) developed in an earlier article, uses composite examples to illustrate specific interview approaches. We focus on three TIRGs: preparing for the qualitative interview, extending safety and trust during th…
Are the needs of racialized lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer newcomers in Newfoundland and Labrador being met? Preliminary findings from a focus group discussion with Canadian stakeholde…
This qualitative case study explored whether the settlement and integration needs of racialized lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) newcomers were being met. A total of eight stakeholders, representing either a settlement organization or an LGBTQ‐serving organization in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, participated in an invitation‐only focus group discussion. Informed by intersectionality theory and using thematic analysis o…
Race Relations and Racism in the LGBTQ Community of Toronto
This article explores race relations and racism within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community of Toronto, Ontario, from the perspective of seven gay/queer social service providers of color. Social constructions of race, race relations, and racism were placed at the centre of analysis. Employing interpretive phenomenological analysis, findings indicated that intergroup and broader systemic racism infiltrates the LGBTQ…
Challenging Settler Colonialism in Contemporary Queer Politics
By centralizing the experiences of seven, urban, self-identified Two-Spirit Indigenous people in Toronto, this paper addresses the settler-colonial complexities that arise within contemporary queer politics: how settler colonialism has seeped into Pride Toronto's contemporary Queer politics to normalize White queer settler subjectivities and disavow Indigenous Two-Spirit subjectivities. Utilizing Morgensen's settler homonationalism, the authors u…
Community Policing—A Shared Responsibility
Racial discrimination in policing and its effect on police/minority youth relations were explored in a federally funded Canadian race relations initiative, using semistructured dialogue and voice-centered relational data analysis. Participants were frontline police officers and male youth of color. For enhancing communication between the groups, findings emphasized ongoing, face-to-face interaction. Substantial related concerns were the need for …
You see, one day they cut
It is estimated that more than 200 million women alive today have undergone female genital cutting (FGC). While emerging evidence shows that attitudes toward FGC may evolve for immigrants as they acculturate to the host country, scant empirical research explores how women come to oppose the practice. This qualitative study used grounded theory methods to explore the trajectory of resistance to FGC for seven women circumcised in childhood who soug…
Coming Out Under the Gun
Over the past decade, human rights activists have documented the increase in refugee claims related to sexual orientation and gender identity. Refugee claims processes have been found to result in negative psychological consequences for claimants in general; however, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals have the added burden of ‘proving’ that they are members of a sexual or gender minority group. Despite this unique requireme…
I Asked Myself If I Would Ever Love My Baby”
The 1994 Rwandan genocide was characterized by brutal acts of widespread sexual violence against women that, for some, led to unwanted pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood. This study explores the perspectives and experiences of 44 Rwandan women with children born of genocidal rape through in-depth qualitative interviews. Emerging from the data are the themes of identity and belonging, ambivalence, and truth-telling in the mother-child relations…
Positive enough? A content analysis of settlement service organizations' inclusivity of LGBTQ immigrants
Little is known about how effective Canadian settlement organizations are in meeting the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) immigrants. The authors conducted a two-stage content analysis of the inclusion of LGBTQ immigrants in 34 settlement organizations in Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador, and on the delivery of services by nine settlement organizations that self-described as LGBTQ-positive spaces. S…
Community policing in racialized communities
Despite lack of strong empirical evidence about its effectiveness, community policing remains the approach of choice for police organizations in managing the complexity of crime and neighborhood disorder. It is also the preferred strategy for improving relations between police and racialized communities. Anchored in ongoing public conversations and protests about the tense relationships between police and racialized communities, this article offe…
We are children like others
Despite the well-documented prevalence of rape as a strategy of war, little is known about the specific psychological consequences to children born of conflict-related sexual violence. The results of data analysis of 7 focus groups and 60 in-depth interviews with children born of genocidal rape in Rwanda indicated that they are carrying the trauma of their own stigmatization and marginalization, are burdened with their mothers' trauma, and, we co…
Religiousness, Support, Distal Stressors, and Psychological Distress among Black Sexual Minority College Students
Guided by intersectionality theory, we examined the prevalence and influence of various types of stressors and support on the mental health of Black sexual minorities, paying special attention to the role of families. We used a United States national sample of 1,123 Black sexual minority college students drawn from the Collegiate Center for Mental Health 2013-2014 data set. Participants reported a range of sexual identities, with the minority of …
The Settlement and Integration Experience of Temporary Foreign Workers Living in an Isolated Area of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Are the needs of racialized lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer newcomers in Newfoundland and Labrador being met? Preliminary findings from a focus group discussion with Canadian stakeholde…
This qualitative case study explored whether the settlement and integration needs of racialized lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) newcomers were being met. A total of eight stakeholders, representing either a settlement organization or an LGBTQ‐serving organization in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, participated in an invitation‐only focus group discussion. Informed by intersectionality theory and using thematic analysis o…
Those tablets, they are finding an empty stomach’
Objectives: HIV prevalence among sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals in South Africa is among the highest in the world; however, SGM migrants, an especially vulnerable subgroup of both the SGM and migrant populations, have frequently been overlooked in the country's robust public health response. This qualitative study, guided by syndemics theory, explored the processes by which SGM migrants in South Africa are exposed to HIV risk and th…
Racial Erasure
Analysis of “Yes” Responses to Uniformed Police Marching in Pride
Recently, a number of Canadian police forces have been banned from Pride parades. A ban on uniformed police in these parades has proven to be contentious; the general public and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and plus (LGBTQ+) communities have been split on the issue. Limited research has examined the perspectives of the general population or, until now, LGBTQ+ people on this matter. Using an online survey designed to gather ideas or…
Family, friendship, and strength among LGBTQ+ migrants in Cape Town, South Africa
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how migrants in South Africa identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or with other diverse sexual orientations or gender identities (LGBTQ+) describe and understand their pre-migration family experiences and how family and other social relationships facilitated strength during post-migration. We conducted six focus groups, consisting of both morning and afternoon sessions, wh…
Racism and Gay Men of Color
Sulaimon Giwa’s aptly named Racism and Gay Men of Color arrives at a time when many of the sociocultural issues it raises have come to national attention. Yet gay men of color in Canadian GLBT communities are still subject to racism and excluded, both online and offline. If a gay man of color is not the “right” color, he is often the recipient of stereotypical racial epithets and denied sexual approbation within an erotic world where sexual desir…
Workplace Experiences of Lesbian and Bisexual Female Police Officers in the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary
Research into Canadian workplace experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) public safety personnel is scant. This exploratory ethnographic study examined reasons for lesbian and bisexual female officers joining the police, their shared workplace experiences, perceived career barriers based on sexual orientation, and perceptions of police leadership in advancing the inclusion of LGBTQ officers in the profession. Informe…
Self-Reported Coping Strategies for Managing Work-Related Stress among Public Safety Personnel
Public safety personnel (PSP) experience a disproportionately high number of on-the-job stressors compared to the general population. PSP develop self-initiated actions, or coping strategies, that either confront the situation (approach strategies) or avoid the situation (avoidance strategies) to reduce the impact of stressors on their well-being. Understanding how PSP cope with stress is critical to ensuring their safety and that of the public. …
Making live and letting die
Making live and letting die
The paper analyses how the Nepali state imposed its sovereign power on the Nepali returning migrant workers from India during the COVID-19 pandemic.Through the deployment of border security forces, the state resorted to arbitrary detentions of these workers, leaving them stranded at Nepal-India borders.They were no longer wanted in India while being rejected and excluded by the state.To demonstrate the state's exclusionary bordering practices, we…
MSW Students’ Perception of the Professional Identity of the Social Work Practitioner and the Social Work Researcher
Social work professional ethics require research-informed practice and practice-informed research. Anecdotal evidence, however, suggests that social work practitioners do not identify themselves with research even though research training is a requirement in social work education. Using Structured Interview Matrix methodology, the study explored MSW students’ (n=188) perceptions of the professional identity of the social worker and the social wor…
The sky is the limit. So I just hope, one day, I will reach my destiny
This qualitative study utilized arts-based methods to explore how LGBTQ + migrants in South Africa reconcile their expectations with their post-migration realities. Twenty-six pictures, created by LGBTQ + migrants (ages 19-39), were analyzed with their accompanying narratives to document participants’ experiences. Thematic and narrative analyses starting with the sensitizing concepts of hope, uncertainty, and disillusionment yielded three themes:…
Student perceptions on learning from participating in low-cost service-learning course assignments
There exist many descriptions of how service-learning benefits higher learning. However, these usually involve large-scale and well-funded projects that are not easily exported. We conducted a secondary analysis of student reflection papers to better understand what was learned from participating in low-cost service-learning projects. Through collaborations with community-based organizations, student learning goals were to enhance aptitudes for r…
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health of African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) People in Canada
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (15 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Lesbian (8 works) · Qualitative research (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Queer (7 works)