Navigating mental health and community challenges
The Uyghur diaspora’s experience in Canada in the Xi Jinping era
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7156407 |
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| Authors | Dilmurat Mahmut (0000-0002-7746-3367, McGill University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 555-569 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-28 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Migration Health and Social Care (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2042-8650 • E-ISSN: 1747-9894 |
| Publisher | Emerald (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1108/ijmhsc-06-2025-0076 |
| OpenAlex | W4415455265 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 34 |
Purpose This paper aims to explore the mental health and community challenges of Uyghur immigrants in Canada under the current systemic oppression in the Uyghur homeland. Design methodology approach It is based on a survey of 113 adult immigrants and qualitative interviews of 10 men and 10 women participants. Findings The findings show that the Uyghurs in Canada experience a significant sense of trauma, mental health issues and community challenges due to the ongoing oppression in their homeland. Originality Value This study expands and updates the above discussions, exploring the ongoing, profound and multidimensional mental health challenges that members of the Canadian Uyghur diaspora face due to China’s continued oppression of the Uyghurs in East Turkistan (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region) post-2017. Meanwhile, the qualitative narrative data from in-depth interviews provide detailed insight into the community and social aspects of Uyghur collective trauma, representing a significant contribution. This research further underscores the pressing need for culturally sensitive interventions to address the complex psychological and social needs of this community
Diaspora · Face (sociological concept · Immigration · Mental health · Narrative · Oppression · Psychological intervention · Qualitative research · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
Uyghur Identity and Culture
Collective Trauma and the Social Construction of Meaning
Stress, appraisal, and coping
"Uyghurs in the Diaspora in Canada" 2021 Survey Report
Disturbed dreaming, posttraumatic stress disorder, and affect distress
Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences
Education and the Politics of Cultural Survival for Uyghur Immigrants in Turkey
Prosecuting the War Crime of Collective Punishment
Innovating Repression
The impact of China’s high-tech repression on Uyghurs
End the dominance of the Uyghur ethnic group
The impact of the state on Islam amongst the Uyghurs
Uyghur students in higher education in the USA
The Xinjiang emergency
Why Scholars and Activists Increasingly Fear a Uyghur Genocide in Xinjiang
Belonging to Quebec and English Canada as Muslims
The Xinjiang Emergency
Qualitative Research Design
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