| ID: |
HARP-380 |
| Title: |
Working with refugee women |
| Source: |
Canadian Woman Studies , v.20(3) Fall’00 pg 105-107 |
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| Year: |
2000 |
| Pages: |
0 |
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| Keywords: |
Canada, culture, gender equality, human rights, immigration law, language, movement and residency, residence status, racism, civil and political rights, violence, immigration, minority rights |
| Abstract: |
My family and I immigrated to Canada over 25 years ago, searching together for a better life. Though we came with hopes for new and better opportunities, our successes came with a price–years of struggle and isolation. We landed on the prairies and were confronted with a society very different than the one we had left. My parents laboured to raise seven children, each grappling with explicit daily outbursts of racism and violence, language acquisition, and the effort to find a place in a new culture. I grew up treated as an alien–an Asian female who doesn’t quite belong here and the people who surrounded me made certain I knew it. |
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False |
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Keywords: Canada, civil and political rights, culture, gender equality, human rights, immigration, immigration law, language, minority rights, movement and residency, racial discrimination/racism, residence status, violence
