NRES graduate student & research assistant Courtney LeBourdais is currently working on the “Photovoice” component of the Women, Marriage, and Migration research project of the Northern BC Immigration Network (lead by Drs. Catherine Nolin & Greg Halseth). Courtney has traveled several times this summer to Fort St. John to meet with women who arrived in Canada as 'foreign brides.'

 

As part of the Photovoice project, Courtney is distributing cameras to several ‘foreign brides’ within the study communities to visually document their experiences of marriage and migration, as well as their perceptions of living in a northern, rural, non-metropolitan environments.

 

 

 

We are using a community-based participatory research (CBPR) technique called Photovoice to document these experiences through photography, journaling, and in-depth interviewing.

 

In August, Courtney will return to Fort St. John for her own thesis research which also looks at the settlement and integration of ‘foreign brides’ in northern BC.