**2. Situating the Researchers**

While this is not a primary research project in which researchers interacted with participants, we must consider our writers' positionality. This article focuses on racialized minority newcomers, who are often members of marginalized communities and are often spoken about by outsiders in positions of privilege. Thus, it is critical for us as writers to consider our positionality in relation to the subjects of this article [9]. Positionality describes an individual's world view and the position they adopt about a research task and its social and political context [10–12].

One of the authors (J.N.) is a Canadian-born woman of South Asian ethnicity. She speaks English as her first language and Hindi as her second. As a Canadian-born citizen, she is in a position of privilege in terms of immigration status. She does not personally bear the fear of losing her right to residency, nor is she separated from loved ones in her birth country. She does not experience discrimination based on her English proficiency and accent because she speaks English as a first language. This researcher has proximity to newcomers through her parents and much of her extended family, thus she has some awareness of the newcomer experience. Another author is a white female (E.O.P) who was born in Canada one month after her parents emigrated from northern Italy. She is sensitive to the hardships of newcomers and the tensions of retaining cultural, ethnic, and religious values in Canadian culture. She works in academia as an applied educational psychologist, placing her in a position of privilege and influence. The last and corresponding author (T.C.T) is a Bangladesh immigrant to Canada. He is employed as an academic in Canada which places him in a position of privilege. He conducts research with racialized/ethnic-minority communities. He has observed very closely the issues of misinformed stereotyping, unconscious bias, pre-judging or prejudicing, discrimination, and racism at the structural and community levels.

The purpose of this paper is to provoke reflection and inspire discourse about racism as a SDOH and a key factor in determining newcomer acculturation. Our goal is for this work to contribute to a shift in research focusing on newcomer experiences using an anti-racist lens. We hope that such research further benefits newcomer communities by allowing us to hear their stories, validate their experiences, and work toward the goal of reducing the impact of racism on immigrant health and wellness, and ultimately to eradicate racism.
