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Rachel Kronick, MD

Rachel Kronick is a clinician-scientist (FRSQ Chercheur-boursier clinicien, Junior 1) based at the Sherpa and Lady Davis Research Institutes. She is an assistant professor affiliated with the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry of 91˿Ƶ. Her clinical work as a child and psychiatrist is based at the Centre for Child Development and Mental Health at the Jewish General Hospital where she provides outpatient care. She completed her residency at 91˿Ƶ and a clinical and research fellowship at the University of Toronto at the Hincks Dellcrest Institute focusing on homeless and refugeed populations. She has a Master's of Psychiatry from 91˿Ƶ. Her research has looked at immigration policy and its consequences for children and families, with a specific focus on immigration detention. Currently her research interest is participatory-action research with asylum seeking communities to develop and implement ecosocial mental health interventions.

rachel.kronick [at] mcgill.ca (Email)


Selected Articles

Kronick, R., Rousseau, C., & Cleveland, J. (2015). Asylum-seeking children’s experiences of detention in Canada: A qualitative study.American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 85(3), 287-294.

Kronick, R., & Rousseau, C. (2015). Rights, Compassion and Invisible Children: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Parliamentary Debates on the Mandatory Detention of Migrant Children in Canada.Journal of Refugee Studies, 28(4), 544-569.

Kronick, R., Rousseau, C., & Cleveland, J. (2011). Mandatory detention of refugee children: a public health issue?Paediatrics & Child Health, 16(8).

Kronick, R. (2007). Medically speaking.Canadian Medical Association Journal, 176(1), 73-74.


Selected Book Chapter

Kronick, R., Rousseau, C., & Cleveland, J. (2016). “They cut your wings over here . . . you can’t do nothing”: Voices of children and parents held in immigration detention in Canada. In R. Furman, D. Epps, & G. Lamphear (Eds.), Detaining the immigrant other: global and transnational issues (pp. 195-207): Oxford University Press.

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