This exploratory study examines the influences of cultural and religious practices of Muslim women within health care settings. Twelve Muslim women, ranging between the ages of 19 to 57, were interviewed. They all participated in a 30 to 60 minute, semi-structured interview, and…
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This exploratory research describes the efforts of the Indonesian migrant organizations in Toronto to organize collective remittances to assist their home communities' recovery and redevelopment in the aftermath of natural disasters. The study examines, from the perspective of t…
This dissertation is based on data collected through informal conversations, formal interviews, and participant observation at community events over sixteen months of fieldwork with Arab Canadians living in Ottawa, Ontario. Most literature on Canadian national identity focuses o…
Despite evidence that suggests that nurses migrate to Ontario through the Live-in Caregiver Program, no research has been conducted on this group of nurses in Ontario. This study addresses that gap utilizing the transnational feminist concept of "global care chains" in a single …
The first wave of Coptic immigrants to Canada started nearly fifty years ago. Copts came from their motherland Egypt, searching for religious freedom and economical prosperity. The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) became one of the largest centers in Canada where Copts settled with th…
The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the challenges encountered by Nigerian immigrant youth in the Metro-Toronto school system. The literature review shows scarcity of related work, and so much of this study relied on the general information on racial minority immigrant…
Pakistani Catholic women form a fraction of the 1.4 percent of the population that is Christian in Pakistan. These women are part of a fairly large Pakistani Catholic community that lives in Toronto and its suburbs. However, they are rendered indistinguishable from the many Hind…
This dissertation offers a spatio-temporal analysis of housing starts in the GTA. Informative and revealing results were obtained when housing units were disaggregated by structural type (i.e., detached, semi-detached, apartments, and others [link/row] housing). This dissertatio…
The process of migration has affected the Ethiopian Orthodox church in Toronto in both its music and musical practice as well as in the content and proceedings of its ritual. This has resulted in a transformation of cultural identity amongst the Ethiopian Orthodox community in T…
This thesis examines in detail the democratic process of writing an equity policy in the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) in the late 1990s. Through an examination of substantial empirical evidence that includes government documents, commissioned reports and former policies …
The Black River and Trenton Limestone Groups of southern Ontario are a relatively thin (average 150 metres) carbonate succession in the Lake Simcoe area, resting unconformably on Precambrian basement. Local Precambrian ‘highs’ complicate the overall facies pattern and lithofacie…
Using qualitative research with personal interviews, and acknowledging the diverse diaspora experiences (post-1930) of Canadian Jewry and former Soviet Jewry, this thesis asks: (a) Is aid received from the Jewish Immigrant Aid Service, Toronto, and other Jewish social services, …
A technique for gathering, analyzing and grouping individual travel pattern data is developed and tested in an international case study to compare the travel behaviours of urban fringe dwellers in three cities. The cities are Ottawa, Canada; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and Yogyakart…
This study was prompted by prejudices like, a blonde American is a perfect English teacher, nonnatives are incompetent teachers, native speaking teachers should get higher salaries than nonnatives or that American, British, Australian or Canadian English is the “right” kind of E…
The purpose of this study was twofold: to explore the acculturative experiences of Greeks in Toronto, Canada, and also to learn more about the nature of and assessment of “acculturative stress”, a construct used in the field of cross-cultural psychology to assess the adjustment …
Cyanosis is an important category of condemnation of poultry in Canada characterised by dark musculature. Studies were conducted to determine cyanosis incidence, seasonal pattern, risk factors and tissue characteristics. The research tested the hypothesis that cyanosis is a dark…
Despite a growing research corpus on women in Canada, women of Arab descent have not received enough attention in academic circles. The lack of substantive data and scholarly research interest in this group accentuates their invisibility within Canada's paradigm of “visible mino…
The St. Clair River delta, the largest in the Great Lakes area, is located astride the border between Michigan, United States of America (U.S.A.), and Ontario Canada. It resembles a classic river-dominated delta system, with a typical “birds foot” morphology The St. Clair River …
For the first time in recent history, Somali society has experienced the plight of a mass exodus. Millions have been displaced by civil war and have sought refuge in places thousands of miles away from their homelands. There are tens of thousands of Somali refugees in Canada; th…
This is a qualitative study examining complex micro and macro social processes of negotiating drastic shifts in identity, cohesion, and belonging in the context of refugee displacement. A community-based small sample of 18 self-identified research participants is selected from a…