CLD 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Underemployment, Social Isolation, Sperm Donation

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Early Childhood Studies
• Course: CLD 231
• Professor: Audrey Huberman

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Cld 231 families in canadian context i. As of 2008: 5. 5 million immigrants, 20 percent of canadian were immigrants. 250000 immigrants have come to canada each year. By 2030: ca(cid:374)ada"s o(cid:374)l(cid:455) sou(cid:396)(cid:272)e of g(cid:396)o(cid:449)th (cid:449)ill (cid:271)e th(cid:396)ough i(cid:373)(cid:373)ig(cid:396)atio(cid:374) Successful adaptation: learn about other cultures, their behaviour, and values, understand our own culture, understand challenges faced by new canadians. Reasons people immigrate: opportunity, reunite with family, escape. Risk factors: underemployment or unemployment, role reversals, social isolation, barriers to helping services, english/french as a second language, loss, grief, and depression, trauma induced by war or enforced refugee status. Immigrant families acculturate and become successful canadian citizens. Effects of refugee experiences on children: experiences of war, moving, resettling. Chronic sadness, fearfulness, shyness, school phobia, heightened separation anxiety, regressive behaviour, poor school performance, hyper-alertness and hyper-aggression. Coping strategies: build o(cid:374) the fa(cid:373)il(cid:455)"s strengths, some families will be fearful of professional. Abdicate responsibility to teachers and other professionals due to feeling of disempowerment.