Immigrant Families In Canada Case Study

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Families in Canada face many issues which causes difficulties for them to adjust in a new setting. One of the several reasons is language barrier. Language is a very important way of interacting with people around us in our everyday lives. We use language to let others know about how we feel, what we need, and to ask questions in order to understand the world around us. This issue is affecting immigrant families, children and child care setting because they are unable to communicate in English very well and this barrier affects them emotionally, physically and mentally. Families may face issues in communicating with people in the same neighbourhood; they won’t be able to socialize with the people who are living in their surroundings. Even people, who belong from the same country as them, might make fun of them and look down upon them as they are unable to speak English…show more content…
As a family they might face issues such as unemployment because almost every job in Canada requires communicating in English fluently since it is the official language. Even if someone gets the job it will be challenging for them to communicate with their co workers or customers. There might be problems when children are able to communicate better than the parents and both of them are not able to communicate well with each other, it might disturb the family emotionally and mentally. Kids won’t be comfortable in letting their parents meet their friends because they feel embarrass when their parents can’t talk properly in English. In order to overcome this issue there are free classes of English available for families but of course there is a certain limit of people who can attend and when the spaces are filled in those classes the only choice left is to pay for the
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