Abstract
Family is central to understanding immigrants but its role in the migration experience is under studied. This article forays into the trajectories of economic-class immigrants interviewed in the Toronto metropolitan area. It attempts to unearth how families contributed to their settlement experience, on the one hand, and how local institutions and nascent social capital contributed to their resilience, on the other hand. Findings highlight how integrative agents of local institutions played a significant role in helping interviewees acquire self-confidence and agency in their new reality. This process contributed to strengthening some of their families’ adaptive capacity. As a result, these families could fulfill their own support function more effectively towards their members. An immigrant family resilience framework is then proposed, combining elements of nascent social capital of newcomers and family adaptive systems (Henry et al. 2015). The article concludes on why family matters in the immigration process and enounces significant policy implications.
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