Transcript The Role of Group-Specific and Universal Immigrant Service Organizations in Terms of Bonding and Bridging Social Capital

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