Team Member Publications

  • Agrawal, S., & Kurtz, N. (2019). Ethnic Spatial Segmentation in Immigrant Destinations—Edmonton and Calgary. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 20(1), 199-222.
  • Agrawal, S. K. (2016). Twice Migrants in Canada: Who Are They and How Do They Perform Economically? Journal of International Migration and Integration, 17(3), 669-686.
  • Agrawal, S. (2013). Economic disparities among South Asian immigrants in Canada. South Asian Diaspora, 5(1), 7-34.
  • Al-Hamad, A., Yasin, Y. M., Guruge, S., Metersky, K., Catallo, C., Amanzai, H., Zhuang, Z., Wang, L., Yang, L., Kanan, L., & Chamas, Y. (2026). Aging in cross-cultural contexts: Transnational healthcare practices among older Syrian refugees in the Greater Toronto Area. Journal of Ageing and Longevity, 6(1), 13. https://doi.org/10.3390/jal6010013
  • Al-Hamad, A., Yasin, M. Y., Guruge, S., Metersky, K., Wang, L., Catallo, C., Amanzai, H., Zhuang, Z., Rahman, R.*, & Zhang, A*. (2025). Equitable aging among migrants: A concept analysis and model development for transcultural nursing care. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 36(6), 644-660. https://doi.org/10.1177/10436596251359129
  • Al-Hamad, A., Yasin, Y. M., Metersky, K., & Guruge, S. (2025). “Home away from home”: A critical metaphor analysis of displaced Ukrainian women’s experiences with their Canadian hosts. Global Qualitative Nursing Research, 12. https://doi.org/10.1177/23333936251353210
  • Al-Hamad, A., Yasin, Y., Metersky, K., Guruge, S.,Gare, C., & Hingorani, M. (2024). Successful refugee cohabitation with host families: A concept analysis and model development. Journal of Holistic Nursing, 43(4), 401-417. https://doi.org/10.1177/08980101241273878
  • Al-Hamad, A., Yasin, Y. M., Metersky, K., Guruge, S., Hingorani, M., & Gare, C. (2025). Picturing the ambiguity of homestay: A photovoice exploration of Ukrainian refugee women’s experiences with their Canadian hosts in Toronto. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2025.2472536
  • Al-Hamad, A., Yasin, Y. M., Metersky, K., Guruge, S., Jung, G., & Mahsud, K. (2024). Homestay hosting dynamics and refugee well-being: Scoping review (preprint).Interactive Journal of Medical Research, 13. https://doi.org/10.2196/58613
  • Ali, H., Shields, J., & Preston, V. (2025). Reforming settlement services to include temporary migrants. BMRC Policy Preview. https://www.yorku.ca/research/bmrc-irmu/wp-content/uploads/sites/869/2025/02/Reforming-Settlement-Services-policy-preview-Final-2025clean.pdf
  • Amanzai, H., Guruge, S., Metersky, K., Catallo, C., Al-Hamad, A., Yasin, Y. M., Zhuang, Z. C., Wang, B. Q., Stafford, A., Wang, L., & Yang, L. (2026). Depression in older adult refugees: A scoping review. Journal of Ageing and Longevity, 6(32), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.3390/jal6010032
  • Amanzai, H., Wang, B. Q., Catallo, C., Guruge, S., Sidani, S., Sethi, B., Ziegler, E., Nishi, S., Joy, P., Stafford, A., Borges, A., & Sediq, M. (2026). Exploring Afghan refugees’ post-resettlement experiences in North America: A scoping review. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 58(2), 258-275.https://doi.org/10.1177/08445621261420300
  • Bachellerie, P., Shields, J., & Preston, V. (2020). The role of government and non-governmental actors in settlement and integration in Québec, a research paper of the Building Migrant Resilience in Cities (BMRC) project. York Univeristy. https://bmrc-irmu.info.yorku.ca/files/2020/07/FINAL-Paul-2020_07-27-Quebec-Report-ENGLISH-revised-JuneVPnomarkup-1.pdf?x82641
  • Barass, S., & Shields, J. (2017). Immigration in an age of austerity: Morality, the welfare state and the shaping of the ideal migrant. In B. Evans & S. McBride (Eds.), Austerity: The lived experience (pp. 195-221). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Bauder, H., & Shields, J. (Eds.). (2015). Immigrant Experiences in North America: Understanding Settlement and Integration. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press.
  • Bauder, H., Ali, A., & Shields, J. (2019). Introduction to putting family first: Migration and integration in Canada. International Organization for Migration. https://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/mrs_57.pdf
  • Ben Soltane, S. (2015). Femmes maghrébines immigrantes au Québec. In N. Hamrouni & C. Maillé (Eds.), Le Sujet du féminisme est-il blanc? (pp. 209-228). Montréal: Les Éditions du remueménage.
  • Bethell, J., Puts, M., Andrew, M., Ayala, P., Bergman, H., DeAngelis, C., Fitch, M., Frank, C., Keatings, M., McElhaney, J., Pitters, E., Ploeg, J., Sidani, S., McGilton, K., (2019). The Canadian Frailty Priority Setting Partnership: Research priorities for older adults living with frailty. Canadian Geriatrics Journal, 22(1), 1-11.
  • Burns, V., Kwan, C., & Walsh, C. (Submitted) Co-producing knowledge through documentary film: A community-based participatory study with formerly homeless older adults. Journal of Social Work Education- Special Call, Ending Homelessness.
  • Bushell, R., & Shields, J. (2018). Immigrant Settlement Agencies in Canada: A Critical Review of the Literature through the Lens of Resilience. Retrieved from https://bmrcirmu. info.yorku.ca/files/2018/10/ISAs-A-Critical-Review-2018-JSRB-edits-Oct-9-2018.pdf
  • Chau, S.,& Lai, D. (2011). The size of an ethno-cultural community as a social determinant of health for Chinese seniors. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 13(6), 1090-1098.
  • Ciobanu, R. O., Fokkema, T., & Nedelcu, M. (2017). Ageing as a migrant: Vulnerabilities, agency and policy implications. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43(2), 164-181.
  • Cloutier, D., Cox, A., Kampen, R., Kobayashi, K., Cook, H., Taylor, D., & Gaspard, G. (2016). A Tale of Two Sites: Lessons on Leadership from the Implementation of a Long-term Care Delivery Model (CDM) in Western Canada. Healthcare. 4(1), 1-17.
  • Cloutier-Fisher, D., & Kobayashi, K. M. (2009). Examining social isolation by gender and geography: conceptual and operational challenges using population health data in Canada. Gender, Place & Culture, 16(2), 181-199.
  • Davison, K., Lung, Y., Shen, L., Tong, H., Kobayashi, K., & Fuller-Thomson, E. (accepted). Depression in middle and older adulthood: The role of immigration, nutrition, and other determinants of health in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. BMC Psychiatry.
  • Ferrer, I. (2018). Seniors. Alberta Filipinos Leaders Conference. Retrieved from http://filipinosinalberta-ca.teknologybox.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Seniors.pdf
  • Ferrer, I., Brotman, S., & Grenier, A. (2017). The experiences of reciprocity among Filipino older adults in Canada: Intergenerational, transnational, and community considerations. Journal of gerontological social work, 60(4), 313-327.
  • Ferrer, I., Grenier, A., Brotman, S., & Koehn, S. (2017). Understanding the experiences of racialized older people through an intersectional life course perspective. Journal of aging studies, 41, 10-17.
  • Fox, M. T., Sidani, S., Brooks, D., & McCague, H. (2018). Perceived acceptability and preferences for low-intensity early activity interventions of older hospitalized medical patients exposed to bedrest: a cross sectional study. BMC geriatrics, 18(1), 53. doi:10.1186/s12877-018-0722-6
  • Gottfried, K., Shields, J., Akter, N., Dyson, D., Topkara-Sarsu, S., Egeh, H., & Guerra S. (2016). Paving Their Way and Earning Their Pay: Economic Survival Experiences of Immigrants in East Toronto. Precarious Work and the Struggle for Living Wages – Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research, 27, 137-161.
  • Grenier, A., Phillipson, C., Rudman, D. L., Hatzifilalithis, S., Kobayashi, K., & Marier, P. (2017). Precarity in late life: Understanding new forms of risk and insecurity. Journal of Aging Studies, 43, 9-14.
  • Gulbrandsen, C., & Walsh, C. (2015). Aging and Resilience: Older women’s responses to change and adversity. Societies, 5(4), 760-777.
  • Gurm, B.K., Stephen, J., MacKenzie, G., Doll, R., Barroetavena, M. C., & Cadell, S. (2008). Understanding Canadian Punjabi-speaking South Asian women’s experience of breast cancer: a qualitative study. International journal of nursing studies, 45(2), 266-276.
  • Guruge, S., & Collins, E. (Eds.). (2008). Working with immigrant women: Issues and strategies for mental health professionals. Toronto, ON: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
  • Guruge, S., & Humphreys, J. (2009). Barriers that affect abused immigrant women’s access to and use of formal social supports. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 41(3), 64-84.
  • Guruge, S., & Khanlou, N. (2004). Intersectionalities of influence: Researching health of immigrant and refugee women. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 36(3), 32-47.
  • Guruge, S., Berman, R., Murphy-Kilbride, K., Tyyskä, V., Woungang, I., Edwards, S., & Clune, L. (2010a). Implications of English proficiency on immigrant women’s access to & utilization of health services. Women’s Health and Urban Life, 8(2), 21-41.
  • Guruge, S., Ford-Gilboe, M., Samuels-Dennis, J., Varcoe, C., Wilk, P., & Wuest, J. (2012). Rethinking social support and conflict: Lessons from a study of women who have separated from abusive partners. Nursing Research and Practice, 22(9), 1-10.
  • Guruge, S., Kanthasamy, P., Jokarasa, J., Wan, T. Y. W., Chinichian, M., Shirpak, K. R., Paterson, P & Sathananthan, S. S. (2010b). Older women speak about abuse & neglect in the post-migration context. Women’s Health and Urban Life, 9(2), 15-41.
  • Guruge, S., Sidani, S., Matsuoka, A., Man, G., & Pirner, D. (2019a). Developing a comprehensive understanding of elder abuse prevention in immigrant communities: A comparative mixed methods study protocol. BMJ Open, 9(1), e022736. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022736
  • Guruge, S., Sidani, S., Wang, L., Sethi, B., Spitzer, D., Walton-Roberts, M., & Hyman I. (2019b). Understanding social network and support for older immigrants in Ontario, Canada: A multimethods study protocol. JMIR Aging, 2(1), e12616. doi:10.2196/12616
  • Guruge, S., Thomson, M. S., George, U., & Chaze, F. (2015). Social support, social conflict, and immigrant women’s mental health in a Canadian context: A scoping review. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 22(9), 655-667.
  • Hanley, J., Ives, N., Lenet, J., Hordyk, S. R., Walsh, C., Ben Soltane, S. and Este, D. (2019). Migrant women’s health and housing insecurity: an intersectional analysis, International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, 15(1), 90-106.
  • Hepburn, S., Matsuoka, A., Guruge, S., & Manuel, L. (2015). Intervention strategies to address abuse of ethnocultural minority older adults from different communities. In S. Koehn & M. Badger (Eds.), Health care equity for ethnic minority older adults (pp. 46-54). Vancouver, BC: Gerontology Research Centre, Simon Fraser University.
  • Hordyk, S. R., Hanley, J., & Richard, É. (2015). “Nature is there; its free”: Urban greenspace and the social determinants of health of immigrant families. Health & place, 34, 74-82.
  • Ibrahim, S. Sidani, S. (2013). Strategies to recruit Minority persons: A Systematic Review. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 16(5), 882-888. doi: 10.1007/s10903-013-9783-y
  • Khan, M. M., & Kobayashi, K. (2015). Optimizing health promotion among ethnocultural minority older adults (EMOA). International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, 11(4), 268-281.
  • King, R., Cela, E., Fokkema, T., & Vullnetari, J. (2014). The migration and well‐being of the zero generation: Transgenerational care, grandparenting, and loneliness amongst Albanian older people. Population, Space and Place, 20(8), 728-738.
  • Laquerre, M. E. (2015). Travailler en soutien à domicile dans un contexte pluriethnique: quand faire, c’est être. Québec : Presses de l’Université du Québec-PUQ.
  • Lai, D. W. L., & Chau, S. (2007). Predictors of health service barriers for older Chinese immigrants in Canada. Health & Social Work, 32(1), 57-65.
  • Lewchuk, W., Procyk, S., & Shields, J. (2017). Precarious employment, families and communities. In S. Procyk, W. Lewchuk, & J. Shields (Eds.), Precarious employment: Causes, consequences and remedies (pp. 2-15). Fernwood.
  • Lightman, N., & Good Gingrich, L. (2018). Measuring economic exclusion for racialized minorities, immigrants and women in Canada: Results from 2000 and 2010. Journal of Poverty, 22(5), 398-420.
  • Lowe, S., Richmond, T., & Shields, J. (2017). Settling on Austerity: ISAs, Immigrant Communities and Neoliberal Restructuring. Alternate Routes, 28, 14.
  • Mah, S. & Mitra, R. (2017). The effects of a free bus program on older adults’ travel behaviour: A case study of a Canadian suburban municipality. Case Studies on Transport Policy, 5(3), 460-466.
  • Massoui, S. (2017). La violence conjugale en contexte migratoire. Relations, (789), 26-27.
  • Matsuoka, A., Guruge, S., Koehn, S., Beaulieu, M., & Ploeg, J. (2012). Moving forward: prevention of abuse of older women in the post-migration context in Canada. Canadian Review of Social Policy/Revue canadienne de politique sociale, 2(68-69).
  • Mitra, R., Siva, H., & Kehler, M. (2015). Walk-friendly suburbs for older adults? Exploring the enablers and barriers to walking in a large suburban municipality in Canada. Journal of Ageing Studies, 35, 10-19.
  • Metersky, K., Guruge, S., Wang, L., Al-Hamad, A., Yasin, Y., Catallo, C., Yang, L., Salma, J., Zhuang, Z., Chahine, M., Kirkwood, M., & Al-Anani, A. (2024). Transnational healthcare practices among migrants: A concept analysis. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 81(7), 3647-3673. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.16693
  • O’Rourke, H. M., & Sidani, S. (2017). Definition, determinants, and outcomes of social connectedness for older adults: A scoping review. Journal of gerontological nursing, 43(7), 43-52.
  • O’Rourke, H. M., Collins, L., & Sidani, S. (2018). Interventions to Address Social Connectedness and Loneliness for Older Adults: A Scoping Review. BMC Geriatrics, 18(1), 214-226. doi:10.1186/s12877-018-0897-x
  • Paquet, M., Benoit, N., Atak, I., Joy, M., Hudson, G., & Shields, J. (2021). Sanctuary cities and COVID-19: The case of Canada. In A. Triandafyllidou (Ed.), Migration and pandemics: Spaces of solidarity and spaces of exception (pp. 85-102). Springer. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-81210-2_5
  • Praznik, J., & Shields, J. (2018). An Anatomy of Settlement Services in Canada: A Guide. A Paper of the Building Migrant Resilience in Cities (BMRC) Project. York University. http://bmrc-irmu.info.yorku.ca/files/2018/07/An-Anatomy-of-Settlement-Services-in-Canada_BMRCIRMU.pdf
  • Preston, V., & Shields, J. (2024). The municipal role in immigration and settlement: Contradictions and challenges. In G. Eidelman, K. Forman, & Slack, E. (Eds.), Who does what: The municipal role in immigration (pp.4-8). University of Toronto. https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/138985/1/wdwpaper_no9_immigration_june_22_2024.pdf
  • Preston, V., Shields, J., & Akbar, M. (2022). Migration and Resilience in Urban Canada: Why Social Resilience, Why Now? Journal of International Migration and Integration, 23(3), 1421–1441. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-021-00893-3
  • Preston, V., Shields, J., & Bedard, T. (2025). Social Resilience and International Migration in the Canadian City, (McGill-Queen’s Studies in Urban Governance, 20). McGill-Queen’s University Press. 302 pages.
  • Preston, V., Shields, J., & D’Souza, J. (2024). Transforming settlement and integration services during a pandemic. International Migration, 62(2), 22–37. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13245
  • Preston, V., Shields, J., & Bedard, T. (2025). Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 342 pages.
  • Procyk, S., Lewchuk, W., & Shields, J. (2017). Precarious employment: Causes, consequences and remedies. Fernwood.
  • Raymond, É., Grenier, A., & Lacroix, N. (2016). La participation dans les politiques du vieillissement au Québec: discours de mise à l’écart pour les aînés ayant des incapacités? Développement humain, handicap et changement social, 22(1), 5-21.
  • Richmond, T., & Shields, J. (2024). The Canadian non-profit sector: Neoliberalism andthe assault on community. Fernwood.
  • Salma, J., Keating, N., Ogilvie, L., & Hunter, K. F. (2018). Social dimensions of health across the life course: Narratives of Arab immigrant women ageing in Canada. Nursing inquiry, 25(2), e12226.
  • Salma, J., & Salami, B. (2018). The Muslim senior study: Needs for healthy aging Muslim communities in Edmonton, Alberta. Retrieved from https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/ffb80bde-88db-4611-bda6-67ef5108b2bf/view/8b302d89-da05-400c-ba52-066d5053d3a0/MuslimSeniorsStudyCommunityReport_2018.pdf
  • Sethi, B., & Hankivsky, O. (2013). Immigration and intersectionality: Key observations from a community-based project with newcomers in Canada’s rural-urban community. In J. Finn, T. Perry & S. Karandikar (Eds.), Gender oppression and globalization: Challenges for social work (pp.207-232). Alexandra: CSWE Press.
  • Shaath, H., Preston, V., Shields, J., Douglas, D., & Bedard, T. (2022). The future of the immigrant-serving agencies in Ontario: Meeting the challenges of hybrid service delivery. BMRC Policy Preview. https://bmrc-irmu.info.yorku.ca/files/2022/09/2020_08_31-Policy-Preview_Valerie.pdf
  • Shields, J., & Abu Alrob, Z. (2020). COVID-19, migration and the Canadian immigration system: Dimensions, impact and resilience, a research paper of theBuilding Migrant Resilience in Cities (BMRC) project. York University. https://bmrc-irmu.info.yorku.ca/research-reports-2/
  • Shields, J., & Alrob, Z. A. (2021). The Political Economy of a Modern Pandemic: Assessing Impacts of COVID-19 on Migrants and Immigrants in Canada. Alternate Routes, 32(1), 137.
  • Shields, J., Cunninghawm, I., & Baines, D. (2017). Precarious undertakings: Serving vulnerable communities through non-profit work (Eds.), Precarious employment: Causes, consequences and remedies (pp. 31-43). Fernwood.
  • Shields, J., Drolet, J., & Valenzuela, K. (2016). Immigrant settlement and integration services and the role of nonprofit service providers: A cross-national perspective on trends, issues and evidence. Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement.
  • Shields, J., Gintova, M., Guruge, S., Tandon, R., & Hershkowitz, M. (2019). Settling on services. In Bauder, H (Ed.), Putting family first: Migration and integration in Canada (pp. 252-277). Vancouver: UBC Press.
  • Shields, J., & Lujan, O. (2019). Immigrant youth, settlement and resilience: A qualitative examination of newcomer youth and settlement service. Primary research report. IWYS – A Research and Knowledge Mobilization Project onthe Settlement Outcomes–Services Nexus. CERIS. https://ocasi.org/sites/default/files/iwys-primary-research-youth-final-report.pdf
  • Sidani, S., & Braden, C.J. (2011). Design, Evaluation, and Translation of Nursing Interventions. Wiley-Blackwell, Ames, IA
  • Sidani, S., Epstein, D.R., Miranda, J., & Fox, M. (2018). Psychometric properties of the Treatment Perception and Preferences scale. Clinical Nursing Research, 27 (6), 743-761.
  • Sidani, S., Ibrahim, S., Lok, J., Fan, L., Fox, M., & Guruge, S. (2017). An integrated strategy for the cultural adaptation of evidence-based interventions. Health, 9(04), 738.
  • Thomson, M. S., Chaze, F., George, U., & Guruge, S. (2015). Improving immigrant populations’ access to mental health services in Canada: a review of barriers and recommendations. Journal of immigrant and minority health, 17(6), 1895-1905.
  • Tong, H., Lai, D. W. L.,& Walsh, C. (2019). Formal Social Participation and Utilization of Community-based Services among Urban Elderly Chinese Living Alone in Shanghai, China. Journal of Social Service Research, 45(4), 520-529
  • Türegün, A., Bhuyan, R., Mandell, N., & Shields, J. (2018). State of the art in research on, and services for, immigrant women, youth and seniors knowledge synthesis report. IWYS – A Research and Knowledge Mobilization Project on the Settlement Outcomes–Services Nexus. CERIS. https://km4s.ca/wp-content/uploads/State-of-the-Art-in-Research-on-and-Services-for-Immigrant-Women-Youth-and-Seniors-Knowledge-Synthesis-Report-2018.pdf
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