Uncertain future, unsettled present: suspending and embracing engagement with life among newcomers in Toronto, Canada

Dennler, Kathryn Tomko

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2021.1927684

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“…Trust can also be seen as a way of managing uncertainty in life, which can be even more important when resettling and integrating into a new country ( 88 ). Migration is often regarded as a life event that may lead to stressful situations ( 89 , 90 ) as people need to know and adapt to different norms and ways of living and may experience discrimination, and weaker social relations ( 91 , 92 ), It is, therefore, an important finding of our study that trust emerged as a relevant predictor of SHR among Italian immigrants.…”

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Self-Rated Health Among Italian Immigrants Living in Norway: A Cross-Sectional Study

Terragni

Rossi

Miscali

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundMost studies on immigrant health focus on immigrant groups coming from extra-European and/or low-income countries. Little attention is given to self-rated health (SRH) in the context EU/EEA migration. To know more about health among European immigrants can provide new insights related to social determinants of health in the migration context. Using the case of Italian immigrants in Norway, the aim of this study was to (i) examine the levels of SRH among Italian immigrants in Norway as compared with the Norwegian and the Italian population, (ii) examine the extent to which the Italian immigrant perceived that moving to Norway had a positive or negative impact on their SRH; and (iii) identify the most important factors predicting SRH among Italian immigrants in Norway.MethodsA cross-sectional survey was conducted among adult Italian immigrants in Norway (n = 321). To enhance the sample's representativeness, the original dataset was oversampled to match the proportion of key sociodemographic characteristics of the reference population using the ADASYN method (oversampled n = 531). A one-sample Chi-squared was performed to compare the Italian immigrants' SRH with figures on the Norwegian and Italian populations according to Eurostat statistics. A machine-learning approach was used to identify the most important predictors of SRH among Italian immigrants.ResultsMost of the respondents (69%) rated their SRH as “good” or “very good”. This figure was not significantly different with the Norwegian population, nor to the Italians living in Italy. A slight majority (55%) perceived that their health would have been the same if they continued living in Italy, while 23% perceived a negative impact. The machine-learning model selected 17 variables as relevant in predicting SRH. Among these, Age, Food habits, and Years of permanence in Norway were the variables with the highest level of importance, followed by Trust in people, Educational level, and Health literacy.ConclusionsItalian immigrants in Norway can be considered as part of a “new mobility” of high educated people. SHR is shaped by several interconnected factors. Although this study relates specifically to Italian immigrants, the findings may be extended to other immigrant populations in similar contexts.

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confidence: 73%

Self-Rated Health Among Italian Immigrants Living in Norway: A Cross-Sectional Study

Terragni

Rossi

Miscali

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“…Three orientations to protracted displacement Dennler (2023) found that 'newcomers to Toronto' (on various migration status) either suspended or embraced life while living with uncertain futures. The Ukrainian women in our study appeared to be approaching their protracted displacement in Berlin in different ways -living in limbo; waiting to return (to Ukraine) but 'embracing life' as Dennler (2023) puts it; or actively building a future in Germany, with a sense of determination and expectation that this strategy would be successful.…”

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“…Migrants have been found to experience and respond to 'living in transit' (El-Shaarawi, 2015), experiencing a form of 'suspended living' (Dennler, 2023) or a period of inertia (Brun, 2015) due to high levels of uncertainty, differently. Brun (2015), for example, conducted interviews with internally displaced persons living in 'collective centers' who had fled war-affected areas between their native Georgia and the disputed Abkhazia region.…”

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“…In particular, she examined the temporal and spatial aspects of living in situations of ‘permanent impermanence’ (p. 19) – showing how her participants related to different places (home and here) and different temporalities (the past, present and possible future lives). Some scholars have argued that many migrants living in such contexts are in fact ‘actively waiting’ (Brun, 2015; Gray, 2011) and ‘embracing life’ (Dennler, 2023) even while being in a state of on-going precarity. We seek, through our study, to understand more fully what makes such an orientation to living in protracted displacement possible, especially for people coming from higher socio-economic positions, but placed in a condition of great uncertainty due to forced migration.…”

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Managing protracted displacement: How anchoring shapes ‘agency-in-waiting’ among middle-class Ukrainian female refugees in Berlin

Maxwell,

Leybenson,

Yemini

2024

International Sociology

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The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 resulted in one of the largest refugee crises in Europe since World War II. A significant number of Ukrainian refugees, mostly women and children, have sought asylum in Germany, where they have been granted temporary protection status. These refugees found themselves in a state of protracted displacement, with uncertain futures. This article examines how middle-class Ukrainian women, with children, envision their futures and how this shapes their present. Engaging with the literature on protracted displacement and the concept of ‘agency-in-waiting’, we examine how this relatively privileged group variously respond to living in transit. To enable closer analysis of these variations, we extend examinations of protracted displacement with Grzymala-Kazlowska’s idea of anchors. This allows us to consider how previous social-class positioning, and also other external and internal structures in places migrated to, intersect to reveal the anchors facilitating or constraining ‘agency-in-waiting’.

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Between hope and hostility: The affirmative biopolitics of everyday smartphone geographies

Morgan

2024

Political Geography

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Uncertain future, unsettled present: suspending and embracing engagement with life among newcomers in Toronto, Canada

Cited by 4 publications

References 58 publications

Self-Rated Health Among Italian Immigrants Living in Norway: A Cross-Sectional Study

Self-Rated Health Among Italian Immigrants Living in Norway: A Cross-Sectional Study

Managing protracted displacement: How anchoring shapes ‘agency-in-waiting’ among middle-class Ukrainian female refugees in Berlin

Between hope and hostility: The affirmative biopolitics of everyday smartphone geographies

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