Health and Place
Volume 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 822-829

Regional effects on the mental health of immigrant children: Results from the New Canadian Children and Youth Study (NCCYS) (Article)

Beiser M.* , Zilber N. , Simich L. , Youngmann R. , Zohar A.H. , Taa B. , Hou F.
  • a Dept. of Psychology, Ryerson University, JOR 1016, 350 Victoria St., Toronto, ON, M5B 2K3, Canada
  • b The Falk Institute for Mental Health Studies, Jerusalem Mental Health Center, Kfar Shaul Hospital, Givat Shaul, Jerusalem 91060, Israel
  • c Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 455 Spadina Avenue, Suite 300, Toronto, ON, M5S2G8, Canada
  • d The Falk Institute for Mental Health Studies, Jerusalem Mental Health Center, Kfar Shaul Hospital, Givat Shaul, Jerusalem 91060, Israel, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ruppin Academic Center, School of Social Sciences and Management and Behavioral Studies, Emek Heffer 40250, Israel
  • e Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ruppin Academic Center, School of Social Sciences and Management and Behavioral Studies, Emek Heffer 40250, Israel
  • f Dept. of Psychology, Ryerson University, JOR 1016, 350 Victoria St., Toronto, ON, M5B 2K3, Canada
  • g Dept. of Sociology, University of Victoria, BC, Canada

Abstract

Children in immigrant families from Hong Kong, Mainland China, and the Philippines living in Toronto and Montreal are at higher risk of Emotional Problems than children in immigrant families in Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver (Beiser et al., 2010). The current publication explores human capital, social capital, institutional receptivity, and perceptions of welcome as explanations for regional disparities. Parent's lack of linguistic fluency, and depressive symptoms provided the most likely explanation for Montreal's mental health disadvantage. Immigrant human and social capital, poor home-school relationships, marginalization, and lack of neighborhood organization contributed to the prediction of risk for emotional problems among immigrant children in Toronto, but may not fully account for differences between Toronto and Vancouver. © 2011.

Author Keywords

Emotional problems Neighborhood language Immigrant children Region of resettlement Home-school relationship

Index Keywords

perception China immigrant publication social capital Toronto depression mental health human risk assessment linguistics controlled study resettlement policy priority journal organization language clinical study neighborhood risk perception Adolescent parent male Canada preschool child female emotional disorder child health Article Vancouver Hong Kong regionalization Philippines British Columbia Ontario [Canada] Quebec [Canada] Child human capital Montreal immigrant population
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79955728361&doi=10.1016%2fj.healthplace.2011.03.005&partnerID=40&md5=dadd285f7f1f69a5899817aebe37e3dd
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2011.03.005
ISSN: 13538292
Cited by: 27
Original Language: English