Exploring the Migration and Health Trajectories of Iranian Refugees in Canada

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dc.contributor.authorVaghefi, Sanam
dc.contributor.supervisorPenning, Margaret
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-19T23:28:31Z
dc.date.copyright2023en_US
dc.date.issued2023-04-19
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Sociology
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy Ph.D.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study focuses on the migration and health trajectories of Iranian refugees in Canada. More specifically, it addresses how post-2009 Iranian refugees in Canada understand and view their migration and health-related experiences. In addition, this research explores how Iranian refugees perform agency and power in the constrained frames of their migration and health trajectories. A phenomenological framework based on lived experiences is used to address these issues, together with intersectionality and political economy perspectives. Data are collected through qualitative interviews with 15 Iranian refugees as well as through online content published in weblogs and other websites. The results of this study illustrate that Iranian refugees have diverse migration trajectories, varying in terms of their pre-migration, waiting, and post-migration experiences. These diverse experiences shape their physical and mental health trajectories and access to healthcare. While refugee migration leads to lifestyle and health behavior changes affecting their physical health, their mental health is often affected by the trauma, grief, loss, stress, social isolation, and loneliness associated with displacement. Still, Iranian refugees perform agency in various ways in an effort to cope with these experiences.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/14959
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectrefugeesen_US
dc.subjecthealthen_US
dc.subjectmigrationen_US
dc.subjectIraniansen_US
dc.subjectrefugees in Canadaen_US
dc.subjectUNHCRen_US
dc.subjectasylum seekersen_US
dc.subjectrefugee mental healthen_US
dc.subjectsociology of migrationen_US
dc.subjectsociology of healthen_US
dc.subjectmigration trajectoriesen_US
dc.subjecthealth trajectoriesen_US
dc.subjectIranian refugees in Canadaen_US
dc.subjectLGBT Refugeesen_US
dc.titleExploring the Migration and Health Trajectories of Iranian Refugees in Canadaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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