Ida E. Berger Agnes G. Meinhard Mary K. Foster
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The Role of Group-Specific and Universal Immigrant Service Organizations in Terms of Bonding and Bridging Social Capital Ida E. Berger Agnes G. Meinhard Mary K. Foster
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The Role of Group-Specific and Universal Immigrant Service
Organizationsin Terms of Bonding and Bridging Social
CapitalIda E. Berger
Agnes G. MeinhardMary K. Foster
Organizational Profiles Of
Data Set
Framework for Understanding
Definition
Perspective, Philosophy
and ‘Phocus’
Place
Population Served
Process of Service
Product / Service
Provided
DefinitionCultural Integration
• Practicing own ethnicity within the context of a heterogeneous, multicultural, pluralistic society that values equality, human dignity.
Settlement
• Progressive journey from settlement (language, employment, housing) to civic participation (voting, political engagement, volunteering).
Perspective, Philosophy, ‘Phocus’
Relationship Centred
• Whole person centred. Providing ethnically customized bridges to belonging to Canada
Service Centred
• Primary settlement service centred. Providing a formula based bridge to settlement in Canada
PlacePort of Arrival
• Ethno / Culturally sensitive space and place of arrival, entree and community
Clearing house of Services
• Broad-based, multi-cultural clearing-house of immigration services
Population ServedVulnerable
• At risk ethnically identified Seniors / Youth / Women.
All Immigrants
• ‘Special’ or targeted population based programs as needed. Smaller agencies in need of capacity building support.
ProcessBonded-Bridging
• Mediated entree to the mainstream through with communal participation in the mainstream through collective bridging
Bridged-Bonding
• Entree of individuals to the mainstream through formal pathways of economically bridged-bonding. Bridged immigration based social bonding
Products / Services ProvidedPsycho-social benefits
• Promoting mental health, and reducing isolation, violence, abuse, identity confusion.
• Communal celebrations and events
Survival and Settlement Benefits
• Promoting acquisition of language, employment and housing
Conclusions … so farFive P’s as a comparative framework
Equifinality Different routes to a valued outcome
Definition
Perspective, Philosophy
and ‘Phocus’
Place
Population Served
Process of Service
Product / Service
Provided
Conclusions … so far …
OutcomeBelonging and esteem vs. security and survival
ProcessInformal, experiential vs. Formal, sequenced, defined
