Who Cares?
Care Here, Care There, Can Care Be Everywhere?: An Ethics of Care Analysis of Migrant Live- in- Caregivers and Privately Sponsored Nannies View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Georgette Morris
The paper exposes the way in which care work is conceptualized both legally and politically within the Live in Caregiver Program in Canada. Assessing and addressing the legal and ethical responsibilities of stakeholder, such as families, and nanny agencies is a focal point of the work. Care work as a local and global feedback cycle reinforcing one another is explored alongside the points of entry, stakeholders, and ethical obligations. Within the context of care work being at the forefront of Canada’s immigration strategy amidst a pandemic, this is an important topic to highlight and inform future conversations and strategies. The second section will look at moral and political implications including difference in equality, targeting populations and program pathology in how programs are established to attract a marginalized population. Next, assessing the role of globalization as a facilitator of servitude and inequity, addressing accountability to nation states. Lastly, a specialized commission of care will be offered as a pragmatic step the Government of Canada can take to addressing issue of care specifically, employers, agencies and other entities and establishing standard for those who employ care workers both formally and informally.
The Awareness Integration Theory : Facilitating a Healthy Acculturation Process View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Foojan Zeine, Nicole Jafari
Migration can lead to depression and anxiety due to significant life changes, loss of familiar social support networks, and the stress of adapting to a new environment, leading individuals who migrate to experience feelings of isolation, cultural shock, and discrimination, which can contribute to mental health challenges. This workshop explores the positive effect of Awareness Integration Theory as a facilitator in migration, adaptation, and acculturation. Using PsychINFO, PubMed, and Google Scholar, a comprehensive literature review was conducted on the efficacy of Awareness Integration Theory in reducing depression and anxiety in various populations, such as migrants. Findings show the Awareness Integration theory (AIT) is an evidence-based multimodality psychological model that resulted in a reduction of depression by 76% and anxiety by 64%. AIT promotes awareness in multiple areas of life affected by migration, including career, finances, family, parenting, couplehood, and social standing. Awareness leads to distinguishing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are constructive/destructive, setting structures to create healthy goals and plans of action toward healthy acculturation and/or assimilation into a new culture. The uncertainty of the migration process, including legal and financial concerns, can also exacerbate feelings of anxiety and distress combined with leaving behind one's home and adjusting to a new culture, language, and social norms. Integration into a new culture, language, and social norms can lead to a sense of displacement and emotional turmoil, further impacting mental well-being. AIT is instrumental in achieving higher levels of self-awareness, adaptation, and acculturation.
