Fernando Nunes

Background

Dr. Fernando Nunes is an assistant professor in the Department of Child and Youth Study, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Canada. He holds a Ph.D. (Education and Community Development), and a M.Ed. (Applied Psychology), from the Multicultural Focus of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. As a university educator since 1999, he has taught courses, conducted research and authored publications on at-risk immigrant youth, ethnoracial diversity, critical pedagogy, minority academic underachievement, the integration of the Luso-Canadian community and the Portuguese Diaspora. He has been employed by CERIS-Toronto and also participated in a CERIS research project (Newcomer Youth at Risk). He currently sits on the editorial board of a number of international academic journals. His current research activities focus on minority academic underachievement, the civic and political participation of immigrant youth, at-risk young adults and the integration of the Luso-Canadian community. His most recent project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, is examining the barriers and support mechanisms to the education of Luso-Canadian youth, in five cities.

Dr. Nunes has also acquired over 25 years of experience as a volunteer activist and consultant within the fields of education and social services. He has served as a Board member in diverse community organizations such as the Portuguese-Canadian National Congress, the Portuguese Interagency Network, Canadian National Institute for the Blind-Toronto and the Toronto Community Care Access Centre. In the early 1980s, he also co-founded the first student-led Luso-Canadian student association, the York University Portuguese Association.

Selected Publications

Nunes, F. (2011). Barreiras e factores de apoio à escolarização de jovens Luso-Canadianas [Barriers and support mechanisms to the schooling of young Luso-Canadian women]. In Andreazza, M. L. & R. Boschilia (Eds.), A voz e a vez da mulher imigrante portuguesa na diáspora: Brasil e outros lugares.[The voice and time of the Portuguese immigrant woman in the diaspora: Brazil and other locations]. Curitiba, Brazil: Universidade Federal do Paraná.

Spring 2008. Striking a balance in Canada's diversity dialogue. Canadian Diversity, 6(2), 121-125.

2005. Gender differences and commonalities in the integration of Luso-Canadians. In Marujo, M., Baptista, A. & Barbosa, R. The Voice and Choice of Protuguese Immigrant Women, (pp. 149-155) University of Toronto, Canada: Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

June 2004. (Volume Guest Editor). Canada, The Portuguese and Luso-Canadians[Special Theme Issue]. Portuguese Studies Review, 11(2).

June 2004. Portuguese-Canadian youth and their academic underachievement: A literature review. Portuguese-Studies Review, 11(2), pp. 41-87.

2003. Integration or return? Towards an effective emigration policy and practice for a neglected diaspora: In Sakic, V., Duncan H. & Sopta, M. (Eds.), Immigrants and Homeland (pp. 229-255). Institute of Social Sciences IVO PILAR, Zagreb.

2004. Marginalization, social reproduction and academic underachievement: the case of the Portuguese community in Canada. In de Abreu, G., Cline, T. & Lambert, H. (Eds.), The Education of Protuguese children in Britain: Insights from the research and practice in England and overseas (pp. 167-210). Portugal: Ministry of Education.

Koc, M. & Nunes, F. (2001). Newcomer youth at risk in the school system. Toronto: Joint Centre of Excellence for Research and Immigration and Settlement and Citizenship and Immigration Canada. (Please note: This work does not examine Portuguese-Canadian youth)

2000. Portuguese-Canadians: A profile from the 1991 Canadian Census. Gávea-Brown, 21, pp. 80-107.

1999. Portuguese-Canadians and academic underachievement: A community-based, participatory research project. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.

1998. Portuguese Canadians From Sea to Sea: A National Needs Assessment. Toronto: Portuguese-Canadian National Congress. (The first national study on the Portuguese in Canada) available online at:

1986. Portuguese-Canadian women: Problems and prospects. Polyphony, 8, 00. 61-66.

1986. Problems and Adjustments of the Portuguese Immigrant Family in Canada. Porto, Portugal: Secretaria de Estado dans Comunidades Portuguesas.

Interviews

The Agenda with Steve Paikin - The Portuguese Paradox - Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Sol Português - Portuguese Sun (Toronto Portuguese-language newspaper) - Friday, September. 3, 2010

CBC Radio (Metro Morning with Matt Galloway) - Wednesday, October 12, 2011