Balbir Case Study: Immigrant Issues In Canada

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Case Study: Immigrant Issues Case Study: Immigrant Issues As a social worker, your are expected to look at situations in three different prospective individual, systems and structural. In the case study of immigrant issues, a family in hopes of a bright new further in Canada gets hit with a stressful reality. Each individual in the family , all experienced their own difficulties of the life in Canad a.Mr. and Mrs Balbir Singh immigrated to Canada from their home land of northern India. They lived in Canada for six months and was able to move to Canada because Balbir's brother sponsored them. Balbir's brother lived in Brampton Ontario. After two months of living with his brother, his brother was not able to accommodate Balbir, his…show more content…
He was well known and involved with his community. Moving to Canada meant starting over and learning new things. Balbir along with the rest of his family did not understand English so well or spoke it so well. From a system prospective Balbir has his siblings and his son's school social worker. Balbir and his brother are very close and Balbir's family lived with his brother for two months when first coming to Canada. Although they were close siblings Balbir's brother could no longer provided them with housing. This lead to Balbir and his family moving out and finding an apartment in horrible conditions. With both him and his wife working at minimum wage money and time was both tight. When Ikram's school social worker told them join an immigrant serving agency, this worked with the family because they would be able to learn new skills which can help them improve their lives in Canada. However the family could not work with the system, because of their work scheduled. Thus, the system were in accuses but not at the right…show more content…
The father was an successful accountaint, the mother was a home keeper and the son did well in school. They were surround by the people who loved them , and were able to practice their religion more frequently at a Hindu temple. Moving to Canada they lost many of their fourtnes. Their eco map represents that the parents no longer have time to make friends because they are too busy working. That is why only Ikram has friends, because he was able to make two while attending school. Also they cannot go to a Hindu temple because the closest one to where they were living was two cities down, and time will not allow them to go. Their faith in their religion was strong but became stressful at the same time. As for employment, the father was no longer and accountant but a local taxi driver, until he found time and money to study the flied again in Canada. The mother picked up a job as well, noticing that the bills were much more expensive to pay This was also extremely stressful for the family because they were not getting to see each other as much as they have in the past. The work hours also took a toll on them. They left their beautiful house in India, to an one bedroom apartment for the three of them to share. The eco map states that the only extended family they had in Canada was Balbir's brother. This relationship was strong, and was very important to the family. Ikram's two friends at school crucial to him. The friends

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