A portrait of the health and well-being of newcomer children and youth in the prairies

The goal of this paper is to provide a brief overview of the experiences of immigrant and refugee children and youth in the prairie region, so the major comparisons will be by city and ethnocultural group. [...] Table 15 shows the effect of stage of integration on the prosocial behaviour of the children and youth in our sample. [...] The most common reason for changing schools is that the family moved within the city or elsewhere in Canada, a reason cited by 60% of the families in Edmonton, 40% of those in Winnipeg and 39% of those in Calgary (table not shown). [...] The second most popular reason for changing schools is that the family immigrated to Canada, cited by 57% of the families in Winnipeg, 34% of those in Calgary and 17% of those in Edmonton. [...] While 81.6% of Filipino, 78.7% of Kurdish and 76.9% of the Latin American youth indicate that cultural maintenance is very important to them, only 43.7% of the Mainland Chinese, 35.2% of the Hong Kong Chinese and 26.2% of the Vietnamese youth felt similarly.

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