Project 5: Informing the Standard’s Cultural Competency: Caregiving Experiences of Immigrants & Indigenous Caregiving-Employees - Gender, Health and Carer-Friendly Workspaces

The aim of this project, based out of London, Ontario, is to create the Standard, and associated tools, as written, as inclusive and accommodating as possible. This Project will explore the experience of Indigenous peoples, visible minorities and European immigrant CEs. Five London-based community organizations have committed their partnership in this project.

Building on axes of diversity, including gender/ sexuality, in making the Standard and associated tools, as written, as inclusive and accommodating as possible, a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) approach will be used. The team will qualitatively explore the experience of immigrant and indigenous CEs, who are: (1) working in paid employment; (2) providing informal caregiving within the Canadian context, and/or; (3) engaging in transnational caregiving outside of Canada’s borders and, in so doing, inform the cultural competency of the Standard and associated tools.

Resources

The Indigenous Experience and Complex Relationship with Employment Learn More

Presentation

Mental Wellness with Family Beyond Borders Learn More

Poster

Transnational Carer-Employees in Canada Learn More

Poster

Visible Minority Immigrants as Transnational Carer-Employees Learn More

Poster

Informing the Standard’s Cultural Competency Learn More

Research Brief

Publications (Open Access)

Dupuis, C., Sethi, B., & Williams, A. (2024). Exploring Arts-Based Methods in Unpaid Caregiving Contexts: A Scoping Review. New Trends in Qualitative Research, 20(1), e1013. Click here to access full article.

Shahbaz, R., Williams, A., Sethi, B., & Wahoush, O. (2023). Commonalities and Differences in the Experiences of Visible Minority Transnational Carer–Employees: A Qualitative Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(18), 6800. Click here to access full article.

Rottenberg, S., Sethi, B., & Williams, A. (2023). Transnational caring in times of COVID-19: The experiences of visible minority immigrant carer-employees. Wellbeing, Space and Society, 4. Click here to access full article.

Sethi, B., Williams, A., Leung, J.L.S. (2022) Caregiving Across International Borders: a Systematic Review of Literature on Transnational Carer-Employees. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 37:427-461. Click here to access full article.

Sethi, B. (2022). Negotiating culture, geographical distance, and employment: The lived experiences of European transnational carer employees. Wellbeing, Space and Society, 3. Click here to access full article.

Lyeo, J.S. & Williams, A. (2021). Caught in the middle: a thematic analysis of the experiences of Korean-Canadian caregiver employees in the greater Toronto and Hamilton area. BMC Public Health, 21(1728). Click here to access full article.

Ilagan, C., Williams, A., Sethi, B., & Maynard, K. (2021). Capturing the impacts of balancing caring and employment: a photovoice study of Filipino-Canadian transnational working carers. International Journal of Care and Caring, 5(2), pp. 335-363. Click here to access full article.

Ilagan, C., Akbari, Z., Sethi, B., & Williams, A. (2020). Use of Photovoice Methods in Research on Informal Caring: A Scoping Review of the Literature. Journal of Human Health Research. Click here to access full article.

Conferences

Kydd, A., & Sethi, B. (2021, October 6-8). Caregiving as my culture: The impacts of unpaid caregiving on Indigenous older adults and transnational carer-employees (TCEs) [Poster presentation]. Metropolis Canada’s 4th Annual Forum on Measuring Identities: Multiculturalism @ 50: Diversity, Inclusion and Eliminating Racism, Online.

Rottenberg, S., & Sethi, B. (2021, October 6-8). The experiences of racialized immigrant transnational carer-employees in London, Ontario [Poster presentation]. Metropolis Canada’s 4th Annual Forum on Measuring Identities: Multiculturalism @ 50: Diversity, Inclusion and Eliminating Racism, Online.

Rottenberg, S., Sethi, B., & Williams, A. (2021, October 20-23). Experiences of visible minority immigrants providing transnational care to older adults during COVID-19 [Poster presentation]. Canadian Association on Gerontology (CAG) 2021 Conference, Online.

Sethi, B., & Williams, A. (2021, June 7-11). Immigrant caregivers and racism: What has social work got to do with it? [Poster presentation]. Diversity, Equity, & Human Rights OASW Summer Seminar Series, International Metropolis Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, Online.

Kydd, A., Cooper, J., Sethi, B., & Williams, A. (2021, July 5-9). Multimodal ethnography in researching with culturally diverse transnational carers in Ontario, Canada [Poster presentation]. Thinking Qualitatively Virtual Conference, Online.

Sethi, B., Kydd, A., Cooper, J., & Williams, A. (2021, March 22-26). An exploration of the transnational experience of Indigenous, visible minority and European immigrant caregivers in Canada amidst COVID-19 [Poster presentation]. 23rd Metropolis Canada Conference: Migrants, Migration and Mobility: COVID-19 Response and Recovery, Online.

Sethi, B., Williams, A., Leung, J., & Cooper, J. (2021, March 12-14). Transnational caregiving across international borders [Poster presentation]. Consortiums of Universities for Global Health: Addressing Critical Gaps in Global Health and Development, Online.

Sethi, B., Cooper, J., Kydd, A., & Williams, A. (2021, March 22-26). An exploration of the transnational experience of Indigenous, visible minority and European immigrant caregivers in Canada amidst COVID-19 workshop [Poster presentation]. 23rd Metropolis Canada Conference: Migrants, Migration and Mobility: COVID-19 Response and Recovery, Online.

Sethi, B., El-Saadi, L., Henao, L., & Williams, A. (2021, March 22-26). Visible minority immigrants as transnational caregiving employees amidst COVID-19 [Poster presentation]. 23rd Metropolis Canada Conference: Migrants, Migration and Mobility: COVID-19 Response and Recovery, Online.

Kydd, A., & Sethi, B. (2021, March 22-26). The Indigenous experience and complex relationship with employment and providing informal care during COVID-19: Ontario, Canada [Poster presentation]. 23rd Metropolis Canada Conference: Migrants, Migration and Mobility: COVID-19 Response and Recovery, Online.

Sethi, B., & Cooper, J. (2021, March 22-26). Mental wellness with family beyond borders: A closer look at immigrants’ tools for self-care under COVID-19 related restrictions. 23rd Metropolis Canada Conference: Migrants, Migration and Mobility: COVID-19 Response and Recovery, Online.

Interviews

Sethi, B. The Globe and Mail (October 11th, 2020). “This Thanksgiving, more than any other, gratitude is precious – but warm feelings are only the first step to living well (Racialized Caregivers).”

Sethi, B. CBC Afternoon Drive with Chris Dela Torre (September 15th, 2020). “Personal support workers are vital to Canada’s healthcare system, but many experience prejudices on the job.”

Sethi, B. London Free Press (September 15th, 2020). “Professor wants anti-racism policies for personal support workers.”

Sethi, B. 980 CKNW. “Personal support workers are the backbone of health care but the bottom of the power structure.”

Sethi, B. The Conversation. (September 2nd, 2020). “Personal support workers are the backbone of health care but the bottom of the power structure.”