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A snapshot of food insecurity among immigrants

Phys · · 658 words · By Béatrice St-Cyr-Leroux

The article discusses a study by Université de Montréal researcher Sarah Bonin regarding food insecurity among immigrants in Montreal. The findings suggest that food insecurity does not always correlate with poor diet quality or a lack of culinary skills, indicating that the issue is primarily rooted in economic and structural factors rather than individual choices.

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“A recent Quebec study of immigrants using food banks for the first time found no clear correlation between food insecurity and diet quality, nor any effect of food skills on either.”
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The claim is explicitly confirmed by a news source (UdeMnouvelles) and the abstract of the research paper 'Diet Quality Among Migrant Food Banks Users and the Role of Food Skills'.
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web search NEUTRAL — Immigrants, often facing low income and unfamiliar food systems, are particularly vulnerab+le to food insecurity. This study is the first to focus on newly registered migrant food bank users; it unpac…
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12134-025-01342-1
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web search NEUTRAL — To wit, a recent Quebec study of immigrants using food banks for the first time found no clear correlation between food insecurity and diet quality, nor any effect of food skills on either.
https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2026/05/07/a-snaps…
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web search NEUTRAL — The study aimed to (i) identify patterns of FB use among new users, (ii) categorize participants based on their FB use trajectories, and (iii) examine the association between these trajectories and ch…
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“The research is published in the Journal of International Migration and Integration.”
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Web search results explicitly link the study 'Diet Quality Among Migrant Food Banks Users and the Role of Food Skills' to the Journal of International Migration and Integration.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ruud Koopmans (born 2 February 1961, in Uithoorn) is a Dutch sociologist and professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His research focuses on migration, social integration and transnationalizat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruud_Koopmans
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another, with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location (geographic region). The movement often occurs over long…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_migration
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In the Germanosphere, migration background (German: Migrationshintergrund) is a term used to describe people on the basis of identity and ancestry. Migration background is a variably defined socio-dem…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_background
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“Université de Montréal master's student Sarah Bonin did the study as part of her thesis supervised by Louise Potvin, a professor in UdeM's School of Public Health.”
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The research paper lists Sarah Bonin and Louise Potvin as authors, and the UdeM profile confirms Louise Potvin is a Professor at Université de Montréal. The paper identifies Sarah Bonin's affiliation with the same university.
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web search NEUTRAL — PhD. Professor (Full) at Université de Montréal.Louise Potvin. Introduction: The purpose of this research study was to develop and pilot test a culturally and linguistically appropriate oral hygiene s…
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Louise-Potvin
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“They focused on 224 newly registered users at 106 food banks in Montreal.”
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A web search result specifically states that the study analyzed baseline data from a subsample of the Pathways study 'comprising 224 newly registered migrant food bank users across 106 food banks in Montreal, Canada'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Montreal Expos (French: Les Expos de Montréal) were a Canadian professional baseball team based in Montreal. The Expos were the first Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise located outside the Unit…
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“Bonin used data from Pathways, a longitudinal project that studied why Quebecers use food banks, what they experienced using them, and what impacts they felt on their health and food security.”
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The evidence confirms the existence of the 'Pathways study' as a cohort study of food-aid users in Quebec and its use as the data source for the migrant subsample study.
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web search NEUTRAL — Access to food. The Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) is an experience-based metric of food insecurity severity.The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) is the most authorita…
https://www.fao.org/measuring-hunger/en
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web search NEUTRAL — Food Security Update | World Bank Solutions to Food Insecurity.Facts and statistics about food insecurity, its causes and challenges, geographic data and further resources.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/agriculture/brief/food-se…
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“Coordinated by Federico Roncarolo, Pathways involved community organizations and the Center for Public Health Research, which is affiliated with Université de Montréal and Quebec's CIUSSS du Center-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal.”
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Web search results identify Federico Roncarolo as a coordinator/author associated with the Pathways study and mention the involvement of community organizations and Louise Potvin's role at UdeM.
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web search NEUTRAL — First, we carried out a rapid literature review on strategies for retaining low-income participants in health research. Second, we critically assessed the results of a similar longitudinal study (Ronc…
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web search NEUTRAL — adults: The Pathways Study. Federico Roncarolo.of Health and Social Services. Support for community organizations. recruitment was also provided by the Greater Montreal Foundation and. Mission Inclusi…
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359716387_Engaging_…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Pathways Project is leading change in the use of supportive (palliative) care for patients with kidney disease. Currently, in the United States, the fast-growing population of patients receiving d…
https://www.nursing.gwu.edu/pathways-project
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“Bonin found that participants in her study consumed fruits and vegetables at a median frequency of three times per day and had an average dietary variety score of 16 out of 20.”
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“Both of these numbers are higher than the national average for food-secure Canadian adults.”
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The comparison to national averages for food-secure adults is not explicitly found in the provided evidence snippets, though it is presented as a finding of the study.
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web search NEUTRAL — The median of a set of numbers is the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution. For a data set, it may be thought of as the "m…
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web search NEUTRAL — Nov 4, 2025 · Mean, median and mode calculator for statistics. Calculate mean, median, mode, range and average for any data set with this calculator. Free online statistics calculators.
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web search NEUTRAL — Mar 29, 2026 · A median is the middle number in a sorted list of either ascending or descending numbers. It’s used in statistical studies.
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“participants' food skills did not affect their level of food insecurity or diet quality.”
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This is a repetition of the finding in claim 0, which was corroborated by UdeMnouvelles and the study's own abstract stating there was 'no effect of food skills on either'.
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“numerous studies confirm that immigrants are vulnerable to food insecurity.”
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The abstract of the study explicitly states that 'Immigrants... are particularly vulnerable to food insecurity', reflecting a consensus in the field.
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