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Barbara
Burnaby Ph.D:
Barbara Burnaby is a faculty member of the Modern Language
Centre in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (OISE/UT).
She has been president of TESL Canada and is an active member of TESL Ontario.
With respect to access to professions and trades issues, Barbara’s research
has examined English language training in the workplace and the assessment
of English language skills for certification in the professions and trades.
Previously, Barbara worked with the Association of Hispanic Professionals
on the development of a language assessment model for foreign-trained engineers
(a project funded by the Ministry of Citizenship, Culture and Recreation).
This year, she will be working with the Law Society of Upper Canada on
issues of accessibility for Aboriginal and visible minority students to
the Ontario Bar Admissions Course. Barbara’s most recent books are
about language policy in Canada.
A complete list of Barbara’s publications is available
in the Modern Language Centre Section of the OISE/UT Web page,
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca
Barbara can be contacted via e-mail at bburnaby@oise.utoronto.ca
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Burnaby, B., Sakyi, A., & Cumming, A. (1996). The
development of a language assessment model for foreign-trained engineers.
Toronto: A. Sakyi, B. Burnaby & A. Cumming. (Report to the Association
of Hispanic Canadian Professionals.)
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Burnaby, B., & Klassen, C. (1993, Autumn). “Those
who know”: Views of Literacy among immigrants to Canada. TESOL Quarterly
(Special Issue on ESL Literacy), 27(3), 377-394.
Sabra
Desai:
Sabra Desai is a Kellogg Fellow who has been researching
and working in the field of equity, organizational change and development,
from a race, class and gender perspective for several years. She
is a faculty member at the School for Social and Community Services at
Humber College for Applied Arts and Technology. Currently, she is
working on a research project initiated by Skills For Change and funded
by Status of Women Canada. The project, titled “Promoting Equitable
Participation of Professional Foreign-Trained Immigrant Women”, is scheduled
for completion in December, 1998. The project will identify
systemic barriers to licensing and employment faced by foreign-trained
professional women; develop common strategies to overcome systemic barriers;
and promote equitable participation of women through advocacy and public
awareness activities.
Sabra can be contacted by e-mail at desai@admin.humberc.on.ca.
Yohannes
Gebre-Selassie. Ph.D:
Many of the community and university experiences of Yohannes
Gebre-Selassie have been directed towards immigration, refugee and development
issues. Yohannes has published numerous articles pertaining to these topics.
He is currently Executive Director of the Tigrian Development Association
and Project Coordinator of the Relief Society of Tigray. His Ph.D. thesis
focused on African immigration to Canada, while his M. A. thesis explored
the issue of international migration in Africa with particular reference
to forced migration (as in the case of Sudan). Yohannes can be contacted
to discuss his research.
Yohannes can be contacted by e-mail at yohannes@interlog.com
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Gebre-Selassie, Y. (1989). International migration
in Africa with particular reference to forced migration as in the case
of the Sudan. Université Laval. Québec. Canada.
Michelle
Goldberg. M.A:
Michelle Goldberg is the Research Officer of the Access
to Professions and Trades Unit of the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship,
Culture and Recreation. Michelle has conducted an occupational profile
of immigrants and refugees using settlement services in Greater Toronto
and surrounding areas. She is currently conducting a research study
entitled, “The Facts are In! Newcomers’ Experiences in Accessing
Regulated Professions and Trades in Ontario”. The study will obtain
qualitative and quantitative data on the barriers and facilitating factors
experienced by foreign-trained individuals as they attempt to gain access
to the labour market in their occupations. The data will be collected
through in-depth interviews based on a standardized questionnaire.
The project is scheduled to be completed by the end of this year. Michelle
can be contacted for information regarding these and other research initiatives
in the Ministry.
Michelle can be reached via e-mail at: michelle.goldberg@mczcr.gov.on.ca
For more information on the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship,
Culture and Recreation, Access to Professions and Trades, you can access:
http://www.equalopportunity.on.ca
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Access to Professions and Trades Unit. Ministry of
Citizenship. 1995. Occupational Profile of Immigrants and Refugees
using Settlement Services in Greater Toronto and Surrounding Areas.
Toronto: Ministry of Citizenship.
Rich Janzen.
M.A:
Rich Janzen is a researcher at the Centre for Research
and Education in Human Services. His academic background is in the
area of community psychology. Rich has experience working in the areas
of immigrant settlement, anti-racism, mental health and developmental disabilities.
Rich is currently involved in a study designed to assess the economic benefit
of using the skills of foreign-trained newcomers in the Ontario labour
force. The study compares this benefit with the loss incurred if
such skills are not used. In phase I of the project the indicators by which
economic benefits and losses can be measured will be determined.
The actual benefit and loss analysis will be carried out in phase II, and
a comprehensive dissemination strategy will be developed for phase III
of the project. Skills for Change, a Toronto agency serving immigrants,
is a partner for this project. Rich may be contacted regarding his
research.
Rich can be reached via e-mail at: cfre@kw.igs.net
Guida
Man, PhD
Guida Man received her Ph.D. in 1996 from the Dept. of
Sociology, O.I.S.E./University of Toronto. Her doctoral dissertation
is entitled "The Experience of Women in Middle-Class Hong Kong Chinese
Immigrant Families in Canada: An Investigation in Institutional and Organizational
Processes". Guida was also a postdoctoral research fellow at the
Centre for Refugee Studies, York University from 1996-97. In that
capacity, she guest edited two issues of the journal REFUGE on "Refugee
and Immigrant Women: An International Perspective". Her postdoctoral
research was on the experiences of Vietnamese-Chinese refugee women in
Toronto. Guida’s areas of interest include immigration and settlement,
feminist research and methodology, race and ethnic studies, and family
diversities. Currently, Guida is a research Associate at CERIS working
on a project entitled "The Employment Experience of Recent Chinese Immigrant
Women in the GTA" with Valerie Preston, Associate Professor, York University
as the principal investigator.
Guida can be contacted via e-mail at gman@yorku.ca.
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Man, Guida. 1997. Women's Work is Never Done: Social Organization
of Work and the Experience of Women in Middle-Class Hong Kong Chinese Immigrant
Families in Canada: An Investigation in the Social Organization of Paid
and Unpaid Work, Advances in Gender Research, Vol.2., p.183-226.
Greenwich: JAI Press.
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Man, Guida. 1995. The Experience of Women in Recent Middle-Class
Chinese Immigrant Women from Hong Kong: An Inquiry into Institutional and
Organizational Processes. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Vol.4,
No.2-3, p.303-325.
Denise
Maraj. M.A:
Denise Maraj is an Access Advisory Committee Member at
Skills For Change and has participated on the Foreign-Trained Female Physicians
Advisory Committee at the McMaster Research Centre for the Promotion of
Women’s Health. Denise co-authored and co-investigated a study about
the costs of accreditation of foreign-trained physicians. Denise
has also completed a study looking at non-accreditation and its impact
on foreign-educated immigrant professionals.
Denise may be contacted regarding
her research at denise.maraj@hwcn.org
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Maraj, D. (1996). Non-accreditation: Its Impact
on foreign-educated immigrant professionals. Thesis.
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (OISE/UT)
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Foreign-trained physicians and the costs of accreditation:
A participatory action research project with immigrant women physicians
in Hamilton (1998 publication forthcoming from McMaster Research Centre
for the Promotion of Women’s Health).
Shahrzad
Mojab Ph.D:
Shahrzad Mojab is an Assistant Professor at the Department
of Adult Education, Community Development, and Counselling Psychology at
the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.
Shahrzad’s speciality is educational policy studies with focus on policies
affecting the academic life of marginalized groups in universities and
colleges. Her publications include articles and book chapters on
minority women in academe, women’s access to higher education, and diversity
and academic freedom in Canadian and Iranian universities. Shahrzad
is currently conducting a study that focuses on access and participation
of immigrant women in adult education programs.
Shahrzad can be contacted regarding her research at smojab@oise.utoronto.ca
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Mojab, S. (1997) Minority women at the iron borders of academe
(Paper delivered at the 27th annual SCUTREA conference, Crossing Borders,
Breaking Boundaries: Research in the Education of Adults. University
of London)
Kirsten Schmidt
Kirsten Schmidt is a Foreign-Trained Professionals Project Coordinator with the Windsor Women Working With Immigrant Children Organization. Her research focuses on improving foreign-trained professionals' access to their chosen careers.
Last year, Kirsten conducted research with foreign-trained professionals to determine how to better facilitate their contributions to the Canadian economy. Based on the results of this research, action groups of physicians, engineers, and pharmacists have been established to work with their respective professional bodies, government, and other similar organizations to make positive changes to the process.
Kirsten can be contacted regarding her research at wwwwiw@sympatico.ca
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Azuh, M. (1998). Foreign-trained professionals: Facilitating their contribution to the Canadian economy. Windsor, ON: Windsor Women Working With Immigrant Women.
Skills
For Change:
Skills For Change is a registered non-profit charitable
organization that seeks to provide immigrants and refugees with the necessary
support and services to participate effectively in the workforce and the
wider community. In October, 1995, Skills for Change completed a
study that addressed the root causes of high and persistent unemployment
among non-Canadian trained engineers who have immigrated to Canada.
The report is entitled, “Building Bridges: Identifying opportunities
and overcoming barriers to employment and licensure for foreign-trained
engineers in Ontario”. Skills for Change manages The Access Program,
a program that works with individuals, groups, organizations, and governments
in addressing systemic barriers to employment and licensure for foreign-trained
professionals and tradespeople. A newsletter, entitled “Breakthrough”,
is published as part of this program.
To contact Skills For Change, please refer to their Web
site at http://www.skillsforchange.org
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Skills For Change. (1995). Building Bridges: Identifying
opportunities and overcoming barriers to employment and licensure for foreign-trained
engineers in Ontario.
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Skills For Change. (1996). Access to the legal profession
for foreign-trained lawyers.
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