Background: Students face challenges throughout their undergraduate nursing programs. Adapting to university, accessing resources, and transitioning from one year the next between institutions are examples of these challenges. Limited research exists on perceptions students’ sense belonging while college university in a collaborative degree program Canada.

Identity theorists assume that individuals intentionally construct and maintain a culturally valued sense of self. Although this logic makes for positive identities—doctor, parent, or scientist—it becomes questionable when applied to the construction negative, stigmatized, identities, such as drinker. By interviewing 16 members metropolitan recovery community, I focus on how marginalized identi...