Abstract

Living with Precarious Legal Status in Canada: Implications for the Well-Being of Children and Families

Highlights

  • This study focused on the effects of precarious status on the well-being of fifteen participants with particular attention to their attempts to claim services, their feelings of belonging and sense of social support, and the effects of parents’ status on children

  • Drawing on qualitative data from fifteen interviews, this paper looks at the experience of precarious legal status for families and children in Canada.[2]

  • People may shift between statuses, and there are a number of grey areas to consider, which Goldring et al refer to as “gradations of status.”[5]. For the purposes of our study, the concept of precarious status is applied to individuals in a range of categories, who may experience shifts between different types of legal status over the duration of their presence in Canada.[6]

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Introduction

This study focused on the effects of precarious status on the well-being of fifteen participants with particular attention to their attempts to claim services, their feelings of belonging and sense of social support, and the effects of parents’ status on children. In her work with asylum seekers in Australia, Rees defined well-being as “a holistic state that includes psychological, physical, spiritual, social and cultural contentment and welfare...that incorporates both a public/social standard, as well as a personal/private viewpoint.”[7] Rees’s definition is relevant to cases of uncertain legal status, but is typical of work that considers human health from a broad, “social determinants of health” perspective.[8]. Such an approach emphasizes the impact of poverty and inequality on health and on well-being, and it recognizes that there are gendered and ethnoracial dimensions to these conditions.[9]. Well-being, in sum, reflects the individual’s ability to function in and adapt to the new society

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