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VOICES OF SYRIAN MEN<\/h1>\n

Employment and Integration in Canada<\/h3>\n

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How can photography help refugee men talk about mental health?<\/h1>\n

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Introduction<\/h3>\n

The voices of Syrian men<\/em> is part of a two year study (June 2021\u2013 May 2024) that was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)-Insight Development Grant. The study aimed to understand refugee men\u2019s experiences of resettlement in Canada, with a specific focus on the impacts of employment integration and affects to their mental health. An intersectional analysis was conducted to understand how broader notions of masculinity were shaped by employment and migration, and the intersecting factors\u00a0 that shape Syrian men\u2019s mental health post migration in Canada.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

From November 2015 to December 2016, over 39,000 Syrian refugees resettled in Canada through Operation Syrian Refugees. Among them, 4,400 refugees arrived in 65 communities across British Columbia. This was the largest group resettlement in Canada in over 40 years.<\/p>\n

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Watch the video<\/h3>\n

This documentary features three Syrian men who participated in the study, “Exploring Syrian men’s mental health and participation in labour employment: A community participatory arts-based project.\u201d The project, led by UVic Nursing Associate Professor Nancy Clark, highlights the diversity of experiences of Syrian men who came to Canada as refugees, as well as the differences between older and younger men in their experiences of displacement, building a new life in Canada and impacts to their identity and belonging.\u201d[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/youtu.be\/XA5lPpMayck?si=nGG8-eR6tl71U6ZH” _builder_version=”4.23.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_video][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”FAQ Section” _builder_version=”4.23.2″ background_color=”#026887″ background_enable_image=”off” custom_padding=”31px||30px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_layout=”dark” link_option_url_new_window=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n

Read the interactive storybook<\/h3>\n

An immersive experience with audio clips, photos and videos.<\/p>\n

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Photovoice Gallery<\/h3>\n

This gallery shows how Syrian men identified their experiences of integration, gaining employment or credentials and affects to their psychological health. The photos are further themed in the participants digital storybook and animated book.<\/p>\n

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This is the picture of my daughter in Canada \u2026For us this was, God willing, this was a glimpse of hope and light.<\/p>\n

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How do I say, when a person reaches their maximum ability to cope with stressors! This is a coping strategy. Canada allows me to go out and change my environment to cope. If I stay at home and with the same social circle, I will fall in depression. It is a must to go on picnic and enjoy the outdoors every now and then. Canada enjoys incredible nature.<\/p>\n

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I already had like three jobs, so I wasn’t sleeping enough. I was overworked \u2026trying to keep pushing myself forward to the point where I almost broke down. Right? That’s why I I got my new job \u2026. But that’s was too much like I was physically impacted by the depression. I’m saddened, depressed. No, I barely walked. I couldn’t speak.<\/p>\n

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So and they put it kind of there is a wood behind kind of frame \u2026, so I hang it on the wall .and I see it all the time and it gives power. It really gives me give me power. Like when I look at it, when I come back from work, when it’s hard \u2026, day outside and come back to see just relax you and you feel power\u2026I don’t have any family here, \u2026So, you know, the relation between a father and son.<\/p>\n

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Give me back about a lot of memories that yeah \u2026 It’s memories, but you’ll find it that everything is different, even if it even if it\u2019s similar. But no, everything is different.<\/p>\n

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\u2026these are the stuff that I needwherever I go, and they’re always in a box because I’ve been here for four years and I can’t say that I found my home. So I’m always in that mindset like I might find a more convenient living situation somewhere else. This is a temporary place to be. I don’t have the comfort zone to unpack everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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I go \u2026to this library it’s nearby near my home I go here and study it’s very quiet .. it’s very uh relieving to be there\u2026 looking at myself sitting there \u2026makes me feel good makes me feel confident\u00a0 that that it makes me feel confident that I’m able to accomplish whatever I want.<\/p>\n

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It’s a mix, \u2026 I wasn’t satisfied there \u2026About work, I was working well there. So I’m moving somewhere, so I don’t know about my future career, \u2026another thing I’m changing my life. I’m moving away from my family, … If I were to visit like Syria, \u2026to see my family\u2026my mother …really wasn’t happy \u2026to see me travelling away. And now, three months ago, she passed away and I didn’t have the chance to see her.<\/p>\n

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Almost every week I was trying to make a kind of party or dinner invitation for my friend just to be with people because, you know, loneliness, it’s very hard to, especially COVID because it destroyed every dream for me.<\/p>\n

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Yeah \u2026so this photo represents what I feel now the most which I consider my biggest problem here in Canada which is I feel lonely when I was in Egypt I had lots of friends \u2026coming here and leaving all that behind it kinda make me feel something I haven’t feel before which is lonely and it kinda make me afraid to talk to anyone new because I don’t know what the results will be.<\/p>\n

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So that makes you feel a bit annoyed. And why are you discriminating me because of my accent or my lack of English?<\/p>\n

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Because it’s a very tough, hard environment full of stress and you’re always underpaid. However, after the pandemic, the wages really got a little bit more because there was no staff. \u2026 it’s also unfair to go to the labor market with all your experience to be blown away and you have to prove yourself in a new industry from scratch where you are like almost 30.<\/p>\n

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I take this photo from my shadow. And because, uh, I had a during that time, I had it kind of attack every, \u2026.because I feel that I will die soon and because I, you know, and especially with this gray hair and my head and my beard. And I take this photo too to my shadow, too to prove to myself that, no, I’m still young.<\/p>\n

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I recently got an old car that drove hundred and a bit, the meaning and metaphor is that days are passing by. I felt sad when it reached this number not due to the car we are aging, and time is passing. When we are youth, opportunities are much more in comparison to when people are above 45.<\/p>\n

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I don’t see a retirement for me, I. Because starting from this age, you lost, for example, like 20 years of the pension plan or retirement plan. So. I don’t believe that reaching to our time of retirement, that will be enough to survive.<\/p>\n

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\u2026I’m in this phase of my life \u2026I have to focus on my, my physical and mental health. So the gym is not is not something extra I’m doing. It’s essential because after 35, your body starts to go down and I’m almost 30 and it went so fast. I, like my entire life, [\u2026]\u2026I didn’t have the time to go to the gym. I didn’t have the time to think \u2026.<\/p>\n

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I applied to work in homedepot to work. \u2026and I had a language barrier \u2026I did not get recruited. \u2026feeling down and upset. Again with the language barrier obstructing our efforts. Why we are being tortured with the language unable to learn and what is the reason. \u2026Those wood pieces in the middle of the track represent our English learning journey. We are standing on the first 4 or 5 tracks and we have all those \u2026 tracks in order for us to work here like proper human beings.<\/p>\n

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I can imagine, yeah, so just, yeah, so this is like people they become older than they look like so they are younger but look like older\u201d [\u2026] good language but you don\u2019t have money and he don\u2019t have time for certificate he work now with delivery, I am too the same, I work, I have ten thousand, ten thousand more ten thousand delivery in Canada with Skip, Door Dash and uber eats . . .<\/p>\n

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When your language is limited, it makes you vulnerable\u201d \u2026 I looked for work a lot and tried working. Work needs strong language ability. A person is protected if they have a strong language. If one\u2019s language is minimal \u201chalf in half\u201d or less, then you are exposed to everything, exploitation, and persecution. This is why I am doing this part time job, because it does not require too much English.<\/p>\n

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Waiting the bus to move, to. \u2026 I didn’t have a vehicle, so I had to leave early and get two buses so that I can arrive at the time. And I felt like at 5:30,. \u2026It was the only job I could find at that time with doesn’t like it didn’t. They didn’t ask me for any English or anything.. \u2026They don’t care about the language, they just want some people to stand behind a machine and do some stuff.<\/p>\n

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University of Victoria story “Syrian men use photography to turn eye on mental health”<\/h3>\n

University of Victoria President\u2019s Chair Nancy Clark<\/a>\u00a0has been working with 11 Syrian men who have resettled in the lower mainland of Metro-Vancouver and Victoria on a two-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) study.\u00a0<\/span>Exploring Syrian Men\u2019s Mental Health and Participation in Labour Employment: A Community Participatory Arts-Based Project\u00a0<\/span><\/em>uses photography to explore the social determinants of Syrian men\u2019s mental health and highlights how the intersections of masculinity, forced migration and resettlement shape men\u2019s experiences of economic integration.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Futurum Article<\/span><\/h3>\n

For information about the photo voice project and the researchers, read this article: \u2018How can photography uncover the mental health challenges faced by refugee men?<\/a>\u2019<\/p>\n