Are residency and type of refugee settlement program associated with food (in)security among Syrian refugees who have resettled in Canada since 2015?

IF 5.6 1区农林科学 Q1 FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Food Security Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI:10.1007/s12571-024-01477-6

Samer Al-Bazz, Lina Al-Kharabsheh, Daniel Béland, Ginny Lane, Rachel Engler-Stringer, Judy White, Mustafa Koc, Malek Batal, Joanie Chevrier, Hassan Vatanparast

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This study aims to determine (1) food security (FS) status of Syrian refugees who arrived in Canada under the Government’s 2015 initiative, and (2) whether the province of residence and type of refugee resettlement program are associated with refugees’ FS. In a cross-sectional design, 282 Syrian refugee households resettled in Ontario, Quebec, and Saskatchewan were recruited. The status of FS was determined using the validated Household Food Security Survey Module used by Statistics Canada. Binary logistic regression analysis was used to determine sociodemographic and geographic predictors of food insecurity (FI). Overall, the rate of household food insecurity (HFI) was high (77.0%) compared to that of Canadian households (18.4%) and recent immigrants (17.1%) in in 2021. Households in Saskatchewan and Ontario experienced a significantly higher rates of HFI (87.5%, P < 0.001, 79.2%, P = 0.001, respectively) compared to Quebec (52.1%). The rate of HFI was significantly higher among government-assisted refugees compared to privately-sponsored refugees (79.5% vs 62.2%, P = 0.039). Households living in Saskatchewan and Ontario were almost three and a half times and over two times, respectively, more likely to experience HFI compared to those in Quebec (OR = 3.43, 95% CI [1.070–11.010]), (OR = 2.30, 95% CI [0.860–6.120], respectively). Recent Syrian refugees in Canada are at high risk of experiencing HFI, with the province of residence and income level, but not the type of refugee resettlement program, being significant predictors of HFI. The link between refugees’ FS and provincial variations in the resettlement program policies and practices should be examined to better understand how they shape refugees’ FS.

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2015年以来在加拿大定居的叙利亚难民中，居住地和难民安置计划类型是否与食品（不）安全有关？

本研究旨在确定：（1）根据政府2015年倡议抵达加拿大的叙利亚难民的食品安全（FS）状况；（2）居住省份和难民安置计划类型是否与难民的食品安全有关。在横断面设计中，我们招募了 282 个在安大略省、魁北克省和萨斯喀彻温省重新安置的叙利亚难民家庭。难民的食品安全状况是通过加拿大统计局使用的经过验证的家庭食品安全调查模块确定的。二元逻辑回归分析用于确定粮食不安全（FI）的社会人口和地理预测因素。总体而言，与 2021 年加拿大家庭（18.4%）和新移民（17.1%）相比，家庭粮食不安全率（HFI）较高（77.0%）。与魁北克省（52.1%）相比，萨斯喀彻温省和安大略省家庭的 HFI 率明显更高（分别为 87.5%，P < 0.001，79.2%，P = 0.001）。与私人资助的难民相比，政府资助的难民的HFI比率明显更高（79.5% vs 62.2%，P = 0.039）。居住在萨斯喀彻温省和安大略省的家庭与居住在魁北克省的家庭相比，出现 HFI 的可能性分别高出近三倍半和两倍多（OR = 3.43，95% CI [1.070-11.010]）和（OR = 2.30，95% CI [0.860-6.120]）。居住省份和收入水平，而非难民安置计划的类型，是预测HFI的重要因素。应研究难民的FS与各省在重新安置计划政策和实践方面的差异之间的联系，以更好地了解它们是如何影响难民的FS的。

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Food Security FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY-

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14.00

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Food Security is a wide audience, interdisciplinary, international journal dedicated to the procurement, access (economic and physical), and quality of food, in all its dimensions. Scales range from the individual to communities, and to the world food system. We strive to publish high-quality scientific articles, where quality includes, but is not limited to, the quality and clarity of text, and the validity of methods and approaches. Food Security is the initiative of a distinguished international group of scientists from different disciplines who hold a deep concern for the challenge of global food security, together with a vision of the power of shared knowledge as a means of meeting that challenge. To address the challenge of global food security, the journal seeks to address the constraints - physical, biological and socio-economic - which not only limit food production but also the ability of people to access a healthy diet. From this perspective, the journal covers the following areas: Global food needs: the mismatch between population and the ability to provide adequate nutrition Global food potential and global food production Natural constraints to satisfying global food needs: § Climate, climate variability, and climate change § Desertification and flooding § Natural disasters § Soils, soil quality and threats to soils, edaphic and other abiotic constraints to production § Biotic constraints to production, pathogens, pests, and weeds in their effects on sustainable production The sociological contexts of food production, access, quality, and consumption. Nutrition, food quality and food safety. Socio-political factors that impinge on the ability to satisfy global food needs: § Land, agricultural and food policy § International relations and trade § Access to food § Financial policy § Wars and ethnic unrest Research policies and priorities to ensure food security in its various dimensions.