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Immigration

“He was Threatened and Told to Cooperate”: Immigrant Worker Experiences with the Workers’ Compensation System in the Canadian Context

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Journal article
Senthanar S, Ahmadi B, Creese G, Marino S, McLeod CB, Koehoorn M.
J Occup Rehabil. 2025 Jul 7. doi: 10.1007/s10926-025-10307-1. Online ahead of print.

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Provision of employment-related settlement services and relationship with paid employment for immigrants in Canada

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Journal article
Senthanar S, Koehoorn M, McLeod CB.
PLoS One. 2025 Apr 29;20(4):e0321927. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0321927.

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Differences in Modified-Return-to-Work by Immigration Characteristics Among a Cohort of Workers in British Columbia, Canada

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Journal article
Senthanar S, Koehoorn M, Tamburic L, Premji S, Bültmann U, McLeod CB.
Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation. 2022 October 29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10926-022-10077-0.

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Immigrant status, gender and work disability duration: findings from a linked, retrospective cohort of workers’ compensation and immigration data from British Columbia, Canada

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Journal article
Saffari N, Senthanar S, Koehoorn M, McGrail K, McLeod C.
Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2021;11(12).

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Differences in work disability duration for immigrants and Canadian-born workers in British Columbia, Canada

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Journal article
Senthanar S, Koehoorn M, Tamburic L, Premji S, Bültmann U, McLeod CB.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021;18(22):11794.

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Resuming economic activities during COVID-19: A comparison of experiences for immigrant versus Canadian-born workers with a gendered perspective

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Research brief based on analysis of the Statistics Canada Canadian Perspectives Survey, Series 3, addressing the impacts of COVID-19. July 2021.
Chen M, Senthanar S, Koehoorn M. Vancouver, BC: Partnership for Work, Health and Safety; July 2021.

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Impact of COVID-19 on employment and financial security of immigrant workers compared to Canadian-born workers

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Research brief based on analysis of the Statistics Canada Canadian Perspectives Survey, Series 1, addressing the impacts of COVID-19. June 2020.

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Immigration Status and Work Disability Duration in British Columbia

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Thesis
Saffari N.
Vancouver: The University of British Columbia; 2016.

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