CLD 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: School Refusal, Role Reversal, Visible Minority

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Early Childhood Studies
• Course: CLD 231
• Professor: Alana Butler

Document Summary

Canada has highest amount of immigrants amongst g8 countries. Largest visible minorities are black, south asians and chinese make up over half of immigrants. Immigrants come for economic/social opportunities and to reunite to with loved ones or to seek a safe haven. Risk factors include: underemployment or unemployment, role reversal, social isolation, barriers to services, english/french as a second language, loss, grief and depression, trauma induced by war or enforced refugee status. Belief that professional interfere with their live and disempower parents. In need of extensive treatment and care. Parents are often too overwhelmed to provide emotional support and security to children. Heightened degree of separation anxiety, shyness and fear. School phobia, learning disabilities and poor performance. Conflict between norms and values of peers/teacher and parents. Immigrants are allowed into country based on point system which looks at things such as education, languages and age and gives points based on such.