An In-Depth Look at the Discrimination Experienced by Immigrants and Racialized Individuals in the Oxford and St. Thomas-Elgin Regions, and Strategies for Combatting this Discrimination (2024)
This qualitative study, involving in-depth interviews of 15 immigrants and racialized individuals in Oxford County and St. Thomas & Elgin County, was conducted as a follow-up to a survey conducted in March 2021 examining experiences of discrimination in the regions. The Oxford survey and the St. Thomas-Elgin survey were two of nine conducted in Southwestern Ontario at that time. Results of these surveys revealed that immigrants and racialized people often experience discrimination in workplace settings (i.e., when applying for a job or promotion and at their job) and in public settings (e.g., while using public transit, in parks, stores, restaurants), and that discrimination levels seem to be higher in these small and mid-sized communities than in large urban settings.