Abstract
The main purpose of the 2003 first Minister on Health Care Renewal Accord was to ensure that Canadians received accessible, sustainable and portable healthcare. In spite of these provisions, the health of immigrants in Canada living in various provinces continues to fall through the cracks. How does the labor market situation of unemployment and underemployment affect the mental health conditions of immigrants and their access to healthcare? What role do gender, race, and income play in getting access to quality and specialized health care in the provinces? This paper examines the impact of unemployment, underemployment and Term employment on the mental health of immigrants in Canada. The paper uses the author-ethnographic narrative, Spirituality and Healthcare model, anti-racist and anti-colonial theories to foreground immigrants’ experiences in Canada. It concludes that the difficulty of navigating through and penetrating the Canadian labor market for immigrants with foreign training especially the minority groups, grossly limits their integration into the economic mainstream and consequently, their optimal productivity to the society. Failure to secure decent jobs after retraining, with the hope of being accepted by Canadian employers, often leads to depression and other health issues.
Highlights
The main purpose of the 2003 first Minister on Health Care Renewal Accord was to ensure that Canadians received accessible, sustainable and portable healthcare
How does the labor market situation of unemployment and underemployment affect the mental health conditions of immigrants and their access to healthcare? What role do gender, race, and income play in getting access to quality and specialized health care in the provinces? This paper examines the impact of unemployment, underemployment and Term employment on the mental health of immigrants in Canada
In my journey so far, I have come to the realization that the spirituality that will effect transformation in education must necessarily be divorced from specificities of religious affiliation. Both in my journey in African traditional religion and those undertaken in other institutions what continues to resonate with my understanding of spirituality remains the concept of “inner personality”, or the authentic self as is held in African world views
Summary
Holistic view of one’s personality is crucial to map the individual’s journey through life. Bailey and Peoples (2002: p. 8) argue that to gain a holistic know-. In my journey so far, I have come to the realization that the spirituality that will effect transformation in education must necessarily be divorced from specificities of religious affiliation Both in my journey in African traditional religion and those undertaken in other institutions what continues to resonate with my understanding of spirituality remains the concept of “inner personality”, or the authentic self as is held in African world views (which may as well be shared by other indigenous peoples). Anti-racism informs the need for a move to an inclusive race-based analysis of colonial relations with the understanding that representation is about subject identities and identifications and about fundamental issues of economic, material and structural manifestations in existing human conditions (Dei, 2011). It allows the privileged to see themselves as innocent spectators rather than accomplices in a system that creates, maintains and reproduces social inequities and injustice
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