Immigration Partnership Resources
These resources will help you learn about:
- Diversity, equity and inclusion
- Understanding power and privilege (webinar)
- Understanding resilience and tools to create connections (webinar)
- Social and cultural capital, along with asset mapping tools (webinar)
- Tools and strategies at an individual level (webinar)
- Research about Huron County and newcomers/immigrants
- Immigration in rural communities
- Research about immigration in rural communities
Building Belonging: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Rural Communities
Guide Book
Everyone has a role to play in building belonging in Huron County.
This guide introduces key terms often used in conversations related to equity, diversity, and inclusion. It aims to spark conversation and encourage reflection. It provides real examples of micro-aggressions and how to respond, empowering you to speak up and influence positive change in our community.
The guide was developed by the Rainbow Diversity Institue and supported with funds from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
Understanding Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Research about Huron County and newcomers/immigrants
Research
- Embracing diversity: Newcomer experiences in Perth and Huron Counties
Social Research & Planning Council, 2017
This qualitative research project conducted focus group discussions with 22 newcomers to Canada living in Huron and Perth, along with conducting a survey to 70 newcomers/immigrants in the area.
The project identified that newcomers were most likely to move to Huron or Perth because of better employment opportunities or being closer to family or friends
The project also found that the main challenges faced by newcomers included:
- Limited English language proficiency
- Difficulty finding employment
- Navigating the social services sector
- Feelings of social isolation and loneliness
- Snapshot of discrimination in Huron County
Community Engaged Scholarship Institute at the University of Guelph and Huron County Immigration Partnership, 2023
By Emily Duncan and Meghan Wrathall
This qualitative research project conducted semi-structured interviews with people who were visible minorities and lived in Huron County.The project identified that discrimination included overt comments and insults, microaggressions, and differential treatment in public spaces due to race. The impact of discrimination was that it had a negative effect on an individual’s mental health.
The project found that discrimination took place within:
- Extended families
- Hospitals
- Churches
- Schools
- Sporting facilitites
- Workplaces
- Restaurants
- Shops
Immigrants and newcomers in rural communities
Research
- Vulnerable, inequitable, and precarious: Impacts of COVID-19 on newcomers, immigrants, and migrant workers in rural Canada
The Journal of Rural and Community Development, 2022
By Louis Helps, Ray Silvius and Ryan Gibson
This research found that during the Covid-19 pandemic, immigrants and newcomers living and working in rural areas and small towns faced distinct challenges, including:
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Increased social isolation and risk of illness
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Economic marginalization
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Difficulty finding appropriate immigrant support services
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How Can We Help?
Huron County Immigration Partnership is always excited to support newcomers to Huron County. Let us know how we can help!
Find Us
57 Napier Street,
Goderich, ON
N7A 1W2
Canada
Phone
+1 (519) 524-8394 ext.6
