The notorious examples of this include the Chinese, who endured the indignity of a head tax; a boatload of Indian men; another boatload of Jews after the Second World War; and the treatment of domestic workers from the Caribbean and the Philippines, whose struggles to stay in the country have been quietly kept in the background of people’s consciousness. [...] Canada does, however, need more labourers to work on its con- tinually growing economy; this is a situation that has been so since the end of the Second World War, and the ebb and flow of the economy has not changed the need for large numbers of immigrants to fill the labour void. [...] While the nuts and bolts of immigration discourses are not the focus of this collection of stories of settlement, it is important, I think, to note that the journey of the immigrant does not end with the struggle to actually obtain entry to the country, but continues in the work to be accepted by the institutions and the people of the country. [...] My concern, as an educator, as an immigrant, and as a Black person who is a woman, is that as we ap- proach the ideal of a society in which explicit and sys- temic bias is legally challenged, we are not willing to recognize and acknowledge the hidden prejudice and racism that still hinder the elimination of institutional and systemic racism and gender bias. [...] The dream changed and the house was the sidewalk, open to the elements and unsafe.
Authors
Althea Prince, Catherine Bain, Cynthia Ding, Gabriele Hardt, Maya Roy
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- CaOOCEL
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- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 305.48/4120971
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
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- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- n-cn---
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- 9781554831111 9781554831340
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- HQ1453
- LCCN Item number
- B49 2013eb
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- CaOONL
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- 1 electronic text (186 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00234044 (OCoLC)872601335 (CaOOCEL)465462
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Beyond the Journey 1
- Beyond the Journey 1
- The Politics of Black Womens Hair In the Black Being Black Loving This Man Ladies of the Night Feminisms and Womanisms A Womens Studies Reader How the Starfish Got to the Sea 1
- Beyond the Journey 1
- Beyond the Journey 2
- Beyond the Journey 4
- Contents 6
- Introduction 8
- Beauty 14
- Journey to England and then to Canada 16
- I Came to Canada on a Boat 34
- Immigration the Church and a Female Priest 46
- Culture Shock or Family Reunification 57
- Heartbreak 68
- My Story 69
- PERFECT 70
- Rewriting History 72
- Believe None of What You Hear and Half of What You See Creating Building and Maintaining Relevant and Dynamic Learning Environments that Embrace Newcomers 74
- Standing in Our Own Power Collaborative Leadership Amongst Newcomer and Second Generation Women 88
- My Story 100
- Why Do I Love Canada 116
- Beyond the Journey 135
- Inbetweenie 158
- Finding Your Sense of Belonging 175
- Contributors 182
- Catherine Bain 182
- Cynthia Ding 182
- Gabriele Hardt 183
- The Reverend Dr. Sonia Hinds 184
- Manivillie Kanagasabapathy 185
- Heather Meikle 185
- Sharon M. Nembhard 185
- Maya Roy 185
- Dhurata Sinani 186
- Faye Stanbury 186
- Angela Walcott 187
- Beyond the Journey 188
- Beyond the Journey 188
- The Politics of Black Womens Hair In the Black Being Black Loving This Man Ladies of the Night Feminisms and Womanisms A Womens Studies Reader How the Starfish Got to the Sea 188
- Beyond the Journey 188
