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La Maison Bleue: Strengthening resilience among migrant mothers living in Montreal, Canada.
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- Resilience frameworks, measurement tools, and transmission processes in the context of man-made collective trauma: a meta-synthesis and multilevel meta-analysis.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Pooled it
- Promotion of Resilience in Migrants: A Systematic Review of Study and Psychosocial Intervention.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2022Pooled it
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- Understanding resilience among migrant women in a humanitarian reception center: a qualitative study.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Experiences of male irregular migrants during their migration process and reception in Spain: lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Prevalence and determinants of overweight and obesity among preschool-aged children from migrant and socioeconomically disadvantaged contexts in Montreal, Canada.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
- The Relationship between Wellbeing, Self-Determination, and Resettlement Stress for Asylum-Seeking Mothers Attending an Ecosocial Community-Based Intervention: A Mixed-Methods Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Reconsidering the Conceptualization of Resilience: The Experiences of Refugee and Immigrant Youth in Montreal.Applied research in quality of life · 2023Article
- Health Care for All: Undocumented Migrants and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Alberta, Canada-A Scoping Review.Journal of migration and health · 2023Article
- Systemic and Individual Factors That Shape Mental Health Service Usage Among Visible Minority Immigrants and Refugees in Canada: A Scoping Review.Administration and policy in mental health · 2022Article
- Social Isolation, Loneliness and Health: A Descriptive Study of the Experiences of Migrant Mothers With Young Children (0-5 Years Old) at La Maison Bleue.Frontiers in global women's health · 2022Article
- Barriers and Facilitators to Accessing Health Services for People Without Documentation Status in an Anti-Immigrant Era: A Socioecological Model.Health equity · 2021Article
- Transnationalism and care of migrant families during pregnancy, postpartum and early-childhood: an integrative review.BMC health services research · 2020Review
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Abstract
introductionLa Maison Bleue is a community-based perinatal health and social centre in Montreal that provides services during pregnancy up to age five to families living in vulnerable contexts. The study aimed to describe: 1) the challenges and protective factors that affect the well-being of migrant families receiving care at La Maison Bleue; and 2) how La Maison Bleue strengthens resilience among these families.
methodsWe conducted a focused ethnography. Immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants were invited to participate. We collected data from November to December 2017 via semi-structured interviews and participant observation during group activities at La Maison Bleue. Data were thematically analysed.
resultsTwenty-four mothers participated (9 interviewed, 17 observed). Challenges to well-being included family separation, isolation, loss of support, the immigration process, an unfamiliar culture and environment, and language barriers. Key protective factors were women's intrinsic drive to overcome difficulties, their positive outlook and ability to find meaning in their adversity, their faith, culture and traditions, and supportive relationships, both locally and transnationally. La Maison Bleue strengthened resilience by providing a safe space, offering holistic care that responded to both medical and psychosocial needs, and empowering women to achieve their full potential towards better health for themselves and their families.
conclusionMigrant mothers have many strengths and centres like La Maison Bleue can offer a safe space and be an empowering community resource to assist mothers in overcoming the multiple challenges that they face while resettling and raising their young children in a new country.
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