Tuula Heinonen is a Professor at the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Manitoba. Her interests are in gender and international social development, women’s health, integration issues of immigrants and refugees in new host countries, photovoice, and arts-based social work practice and research. She also completed an advanced diploma in art therapy at the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute in 2016.
Research Interests: International Social Development, Cultural Identity and Cultural Retention of Immigrants, Refugee and Immigrant Settlement Issues, Social Work and Health and Determinants of Health, Qualitative Research including Photo Voice and Arts-based Inquiry, Violence Against Women and Gender Relations.
| Institution: | University of Manitoba |
| Fields of Expertise: | Gender Politics and Policy Migration Social Policy, Welfare and Labour Market |
| Research groups: | Migration/Citizenship/Borders |
| Email: | Tuula.Heinonen@umanitoba.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English |
| Publications: | Heinonen, T., Halonen, D., & Krahn, E. (2019). Expressive arts for social work and social change. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. King, R., & Heinonen, T., Uwabor, M., & Adeleye-Olusae, A. (2016). The psychosocial well-being of African refugees in Winnipeg: Critical stressors and coping strategies. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 13(1), 1-21. Heinonen, T. (2016). Response art using collage, drawing and narrative with graduate social work students. Resilience, recovery and art therapy. Ontario, ON: Canadian Art Therapy Association Conference book. Heinonen, T. & King, R. (2016). Bringing home, home: Place-making and therapeutic landscaping through cultural rituals and practices among African refugees in Winnipeg. Canadian Diversity, 13(1), 22-24. Blum, E., Braiden, R., Heinonen, T. & Madariaga-Vignudo, L. (2016, in press). Service delivery considerations in dealing with honour-based violence. Canadian Ethnic Studies. Pomrenke, M., & Heinonen, T. (2015). Strangers across two cultures: Chinese children and their adoptive Canadian parents. In M. Baffoe, L. Asimeng-Boahene, L., & B. Ogbuagu (Eds.). Settlers in transition: Pathways and roadblocks to settlement and citizenship of newcomers in new homelands. Ronkonkoma, NY: Linus Learning. Shooshtari, S., Harvey, C.D.H., Ferguson, E. & Heinonen, T, & Khan, S. (2014). Effects of remittance behaviour on the lives of recent immigrants to Canada from the Philippines: A population-based longitudinal study. Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 35(1), 95-105. |
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