Jiaqi Guo (Cathy)
57688160
Dr. Emel Tastekin
WRDS150 08M
Research and Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Promoting Shared Social Belonging among Syrian Migrants in Vancouver
The Syria’s civil war, an inhumane war initiated in March 2011, has harvested the lives of half of the population in the country, approximately twelve million people. More than four point two million Syrians are registered as refugees by the end of 2015, with most of them being women, senior and children. After the government of Canada has announced the acceptance of Syrian refugees, the entire Canada and Syria is agitated. By the last day of 2015, Canada has accepted ten thousand Syrian refugees with the majority being privately sponsored (PSRs). And there …show more content…
Multi-lingual Orientation Service Association for Immigrant Communities (MOASIC), (an officially registered charity which has been helping immigrants, new comers, as well as refugees in Metro Vancouver for over 40 years) and the City of Vancouver play a dominate role in resettling the Syrian refugees in Metro Vancouver and have successfully saved many poor souls from further suffering. In only six months, MOSAIC has provided help for over one thousand and eight hundred refugee with approximately one third being Syrian. Moreover, in the year of 2016, the government of British Columbia has authorized MOSAIC to be the leading team of the Syrian Refugee Response Team for Metro Vancouver. It has hosted workshops and helping services on health, education, employment, and settlement, as well as language training to help the refugees to blend in the new environment in a shorter period of time. Nearly seventy eight percent of the Syrian refugees have attended the workshops regularly. Nevertheless, through the refugee sponsorship programs conducted by the City of Vancouver, local families are able to support and guide the foreign refugees to integrate the new environment and cultural context upon their arrival by providing housing, clothing, food, as well as social and emotional …show more content…
After constantly interviewing the staffs of MOSAIC as well as ISS of BC, and analyzing the data I collected objectively, I have discovered that women are facing even challenging employment obstacles than men do. Employment is the most efficient way of blending into the new environment. However, although the city of Vancouver and organizations such as MOSAIC has hosted career information workshop, only seventeen percent of the Syrian refugees have managed to find either a part time or full time job. And among the seventeen percent who are able to find jobs, women only account for 3 percent - one fifth of the male population.
The British Columbia municipal government has established a one million Syrian Refugee Readiness Fund for settlement of Syrian refugees in British Columbia. The city’s economic growth can be stimulated with the help of the Syrian refugees, who are eager to contribute in the workforce and blend in, while bringing an optimistic attitude as they hope to adjust to the new environment.
In conclusion, I believe that there should be global reform in the improvement of policies that will develop the diversity and multiculturalism displayed by Vancouver, allowing migrants to flourish and become empowered. By doing this meaningful research, I hope to evoke the passion in everyone and attract more people’s attention onto the settlement of
57688160
Dr. Emel Tastekin
WRDS150 08M
Research and Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Promoting Shared Social Belonging among Syrian Migrants in Vancouver
The Syria’s civil war, an inhumane war initiated in March 2011, has harvested the lives of half of the population in the country, approximately twelve million people. More than four point two million Syrians are registered as refugees by the end of 2015, with most of them being women, senior and children. After the government of Canada has announced the acceptance of Syrian refugees, the entire Canada and Syria is agitated. By the last day of 2015, Canada has accepted ten thousand Syrian refugees with the majority being privately sponsored (PSRs). And there …show more content…
Multi-lingual Orientation Service Association for Immigrant Communities (MOASIC), (an officially registered charity which has been helping immigrants, new comers, as well as refugees in Metro Vancouver for over 40 years) and the City of Vancouver play a dominate role in resettling the Syrian refugees in Metro Vancouver and have successfully saved many poor souls from further suffering. In only six months, MOSAIC has provided help for over one thousand and eight hundred refugee with approximately one third being Syrian. Moreover, in the year of 2016, the government of British Columbia has authorized MOSAIC to be the leading team of the Syrian Refugee Response Team for Metro Vancouver. It has hosted workshops and helping services on health, education, employment, and settlement, as well as language training to help the refugees to blend in the new environment in a shorter period of time. Nearly seventy eight percent of the Syrian refugees have attended the workshops regularly. Nevertheless, through the refugee sponsorship programs conducted by the City of Vancouver, local families are able to support and guide the foreign refugees to integrate the new environment and cultural context upon their arrival by providing housing, clothing, food, as well as social and emotional …show more content…
After constantly interviewing the staffs of MOSAIC as well as ISS of BC, and analyzing the data I collected objectively, I have discovered that women are facing even challenging employment obstacles than men do. Employment is the most efficient way of blending into the new environment. However, although the city of Vancouver and organizations such as MOSAIC has hosted career information workshop, only seventeen percent of the Syrian refugees have managed to find either a part time or full time job. And among the seventeen percent who are able to find jobs, women only account for 3 percent - one fifth of the male population.
The British Columbia municipal government has established a one million Syrian Refugee Readiness Fund for settlement of Syrian refugees in British Columbia. The city’s economic growth can be stimulated with the help of the Syrian refugees, who are eager to contribute in the workforce and blend in, while bringing an optimistic attitude as they hope to adjust to the new environment.
In conclusion, I believe that there should be global reform in the improvement of policies that will develop the diversity and multiculturalism displayed by Vancouver, allowing migrants to flourish and become empowered. By doing this meaningful research, I hope to evoke the passion in everyone and attract more people’s attention onto the settlement of