Canadian Services to African Immigrants

Running Head: CANADIAN SERVICES TO AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS
CANADIAN SERVICES TO AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS
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1CANADIAN SERVICES TO AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS
A large section of Canadian population are African immigrants. Since the inception of
this immigration issue Canada has shown a positive attitude to shelter and serve the
refugee .This study aims to analyse the article –“ A qualitative study on African immigrant
and refugee families’ experiences of accessing primary health care services in Manitoba,
Canada: it’s not easy! ” published in “International Journal for Equity in Health” and find out
he improvements in the services provided by Canada to a specific cultural group-African
immigrants. In this context the essay also discusses how Charter of Rights and Freedoms,
Ontario Human Rights Code, and the Multiculturalism Act. Attempt to establish equality in
Canada. In the final section of the essay I attempt to elaborate the relationship between
culture and identity of a person with the help of a personal example.
This article takes health care services as one of the parameters. It states that previously
African refugee had to face problems while accessing primary health services, in the early
phase of 21st century. This article also argues that, due to drastic change in policies regarding
the support services to the immigrants, they can now easily access primary healthcare
services as well as other basic amenities of life. This article has also supported this
information with statistical data. Nearly 83 families who migrated to Canada from several
countries of Africa were interviewed. Also the quantitative data regarding healthcare services
were collected taking 2013 and 2015 as a favourable period of time for data analysis. The
study revealed that previously African immigrants had to undergo challenges like
complicated procedure of the healthcare system, expensive medication and delay in
treatment, costly transportation. The situation has been improved during 2014 and 2015 as
government had subsidized health care facilities to the immigrants (Woodgate, et al., 2017).
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