“Finding a Space for Me Outside the Stereotypes”: Community Engagement in Policy and Research to Foster Canadian Racialised Immigrant Women’s Mental Health and Well-Being

“Finding a Space for Me Outside the Stereotypes”: Community Engagement in Policy and Research to Foster Canadian Racialised Immigrant Women’s Mental Health and Well-Being

Racialised immigrant women face many challenges with resettlement with potential impacts on their mental health and well-being. Recent community-based research (CBR) and associated knowledge translation/exchange (KTE) activities with racialised immigrant women in Toronto, Canada, suggest that activi...

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Published in:International journal of mental health and addiction Vol. 15; no. 4; pp. 738 - 752
Main Authors: MacDonnell, Judith A., Dastjerdi, Mahdieh, Bokore, Nimo, Tharao, Wangari, Khanlou, Nazilla, Njoroge, Wairimu
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York Springer US 01-08-2017
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
Activism
Brochures
Community
Community and Environmental Psychology
Gender
Health promotion
Health Psychology
Immigrants
Knowledge
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Mental health
Original Article
Power
Psychiatry
Psychology
Public Health
Racial discrimination
Racism
Rehabilitation
Researchers
Social exclusion
Social isolation
Stereotypes
Women
Policy
Activism
Program
Racialisation
Immigrant women
Gender
Community-based research
Mental health promotion
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Summary:Racialised immigrant women face many challenges with resettlement with potential impacts on their mental health and well-being. Recent community-based research (CBR) and associated knowledge translation/exchange (KTE) activities with racialised immigrant women in Toronto, Canada, suggest that activism can promote their mental health and well-being. In this paper, the researchers describe community engagement processes in the CBR that included a stakeholder Think Tank with communities, researchers and service providers in settlement and mental health sectors to create an action plan based on the research. Using a feminist post-colonial lens to analyse the Think Tank data yielded research, policy and program strategies aligned with principles such as building on individuals’ and communities’ strengths and foregrounding gender and racialisation in strategies that can enhance racialised immigrant women’s capacities to take action and overcome barriers. Research, policy and program implications for comprehensive strategies that support health equity, thereby promoting their mental health and well-being, are considered.
ISSN:1557-1874
1557-1882
DOI:10.1007/s11469-017-9776-5