The COVID-19 pandemic worsened existing disparities for ethnocultural communities in Canada, according to a new study that has researchers calling for more inclusive approaches to tackling unemployment, food inequity and housing insecurity.
on Monday, showed job losses exacerbated food and housing insecurities for visible minorities, immigrants and refugee communities. Family violence, COVID-19 prevention and mental health were among their top concerns during the pandemic.
To put the findings together, University of Alberta teamed up with community workers from Multicultural Health Brokers Cooperative -- who support newcomers in Edmonton -- to collect 773 stories from people. "We sought to understand how the challenges of COVID-19 are entangled with contextual factors at multiple levels," Yvonne Chiu, study co-author and co-executive director of MHBC, said in a press release., COVID-19 destabilized ethnocultural families and forced breadwinners to spend more time and money to support their loved ones.
What made situations worse for people was not being able to speak English proficiently; being unable to find easy-to-understand information, and not having paid sick leave to self-isolate.
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