Barriers and recruitment strategies for precarious status migrants in Montreal, Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Precarious status migrants are a group of persons who are vulnerable, heterogeneous, and often suspicious of research teams. They are underrepresented in population-based research projects, and strategies to recruit them are described exclusively in terms of a single cultural group. We analyzed the recruitment strategies implemented during a research project aimed at understanding precarious status migrants' health status and healthcare access in Montreal, Canada. The research sample consisted of 854 persons recruited from a variety of ethnocultural communities between June 2016 and September 2017. This article analyzes the strategies implemented by the research team to respond to the challenges of that recruitment, and assess the effectiveness of those strategies. Based

SUBMITTER: Fete M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6390306 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature