Newcomers, Refugees & Immigrants

Awarded Grants

• SWRC Seed Grant (2025-2026) - Dr. Kedi Zhao $10,000. Project title: Exploring international students’ immigration intention to Canada amid drastic immigration policy changes
• SWRC Seed Grant (2025-2026) - Dr. Sulemana Fuseini $10,000. Project title: Fathers in Transition: A Narrative Inquiry into Immigrant Masculinities and Parenting in Saskatchewan
• SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2025-2027) - Dr. Kedi Zhao (PI) $74,346. Project title: Older East and Southest Asian adults' perceptions and coping strategies of anti-Asian racism in the post-pandemic era: A mix-methods exploration
• SSHRC Explore grant (2025-2027) - Dr. Kedi Zhao (PI) $7,000. Project title: Navigating cannabis use as a cultural conflict: Understanding differences among Chinese immigrants from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China
• SWRC Seed Grant (2025-2026) - Dr. Kedi Zhao (PI) $10,000. Project title: Exploring international students’ immigration intention to Canada amid drastic immigration policy changes
• SWRC Start-up Grant (2024-2026) - Dr. Kedi Zhao (PI) $5,000. Project title: Conceptualizing East Asian older adults’ mental health struggles: The influences of anti-Asian racism arising from the COVID-19 pandemic
• SSHRC Partnership Development Grant (2022-2025) - Dr. Festus Moasun (Co-PI), Dr. Vivian Puplampu (PI) (UofR Faculty of Nursing) $199,098. Project title: Partnership to strengthen older racialized immigrants' social connectedness in Canada: The impacts of the living environment
• SWRC Seed Grant (2023-2024) - Dr. Festus Moasun $5,000. Project title: Exploring the Role of the Church in the Settlementand Psychosocial Well-being of Newcomers to Saskatoon Amid COVID-19
• SWRC Seed Grant (2023-2024) - Dr. Miguel Sanchez $5,000. Project title: The Experiences of Immigrants in Chile
• SWRC Seed Grant (2023-2024) - Dr. Takhmina Shokirova $5,000. Project title: Violence and Healing: The Effect of Islamophobia, Hate Crimes, and Hate Incidents on the Muslim University Student Community in SK
• SSHRC Explore Grant (2022-2023) - Dr. Takhmina Shokirova (PI) $5,990. Project title: International students and their lived experiences with orientation and settlement Saskatchewan

• SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant (2020-2021) - Dr. Amanda Gebhard (PI), Dr. Fritz Pino (Co-I) in partnership with Dr. Willow Allen - University of Victoria and SAISIA $4,000. Project title: Existing and Exacerbated Educational Inequities for Newcomer Students in COVID-19: School Settlement Workers Respond

• Prairie Skies Integration Network Research Contact (funded by IRCC) (2021-2022) - Dr. Miguel Sanchez (PI) $19,982. Project title: Immigrant Settlement and Community-Newcomer Integration in South Central Saskatchewan

• CIHR Catalyst Grant HIV/AIDS and STBBI Community Based Research (2020-2021) - Dr. Fritz Pino (Co-I), Dr. Robert Lorway et al. (PI) (University of Manitoba) $40,000. Project title: An Exploratory Qualitative Study of Migration, Sexual Health, and HIV/STBBI in Manitoba

• SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2019-2021) - Dr. Funke Oba (PI), Dr. Amanda Gebhard, (Co-I) $70,535. Project title: Investigating Schooling Experience of Black Youth in Saskatoon

• SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2018-2020) - Dr. Gabriela Novotna (PI), Dr. Amanda Gebhard, Dr. Funke Oba (Co-Is) $26,753. Project title: Experiences of Racialized Students in Education, Nursing, and Social Work University Programs in Saskatchewan

• Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (2017-2020) - Dr. Miguel Sanchez (PI) $40,000 annual funding. Project title: Faculty of Social Work Refugee Children Summer Program

Publications

Zhao, K., & Wong, T. (2025). Conceptualizing anti-Asian bullying faced by East Asian adolescents in Canadian schools arising from the COVID-19 pandemic: The roles of social workers. International Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728251327626

Morgenshtern, M., Novotna, G., Taylor, D. P., Danish, U., & Hickman, S. (2024). In search of inclusion and recognition: Immigrant experiences in the search for professional employment in Durham region, Ontario. Canadian Ethnic Studies, 56(3), 69-97. https://doi.org/10.1353/ces.2024.a939616

Largo, M. & Pino, F. (2024). Piña: Why is the sky blue? Crafting cyber transfeminist and Filipinx futurities through creative technologies. Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (ADVA), 8(3), 285-306. https:/doi.org/10.1163/23523085-08030002

Morgenshtern, M., Novotna, G., Taylor, D., Danish, U., & Hickman, S. (2024). In Search of Inclusion and Recognition: Immigrant Experiences in the Search for Professional Employment in Durham Region, Ontario. Canadian Ethnic Studies. https://doi.org/10.1353/ces.2024.a939616

Pino, F. (2024). Connecting with older queer Filipinos through kuwento: Toward an intergenerational queer and decolonial qualitative research methods. Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, and Practice, 11(1), 64-80. https://doi.org/10.48336/IJBHHU8840

Craig, S. L., Brooks, A. S., Eaton, A. D., Doll, K., Lozano-Verduzco, I., Pang, N., McInroy, L. B., & McDermott, D. T. (2023). Promoting community and competence: The development and evaluation of an international student training network of sexual and gender diverse (SGD) emerging scholars in SGD research. Higher Education Research and Development, 43(4), 827-843. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2269889

Gebhard, G., Allen, S.W., &, Pino, F. (2023). Antiracism in appreciate inquiry. Generative tensions and collective reflexivity. Action research, 0(0), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1177/14767503231210418

Shokirova, T., Brunner, L., Karki, K., Coustere, C., Valizadeh, N. (2022). Confronting and reimagining the orientation of international graduate students: A collaborative autoethnography approach. Journal of Teaching and Learning, 16(2), 5–27. https://doi.org/10.22329/jtl.v16i2.7019

Publications: Other 

Novotna, G. & Morgenstern, M. (2022). Canada needs to stop wasting talent of skilled immigrants. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/canada-needs-to-stop-wasting-the-talent[1]of-skilled-immigrants-18200