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The health crisis, the migration crisis, the humanitarian crisis, and the climate crisis.The repeating reference to the idea of crisis to label numerous social upheavals suggests that we now live in a world defined by crisis.Yet the urgency inherent in a crisis often...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2025-05-07
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Refugees face distinct challenges and are often subject to dehumanization by politicians, media, and the public. In this context, Resisting the Dehumanization ofRefugees provides urgent insights and policy relevant perspectives to improve refugees’ social well-being and...
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AU Press
Parution :
2024-05-28
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Drawing on reflective personal narrative, experiential research, and critical theoretical engagement, this collection connects localized experiences with broader structural and systemic forms of intersectional racism. These detailed examinations of the various forms of...
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AU Press
Parution :
2023-04-18
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This fascinating book uncovers the little-known, surprisingly radical history of the Portuguese immigrant women who worked as night-time office cleaners and daytime “cleaning ladies” in postwar Toronto. Drawing on union records, newspapers, and interviews, feminist...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
Parution :
2023-04-04
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Toward principled governance for Canada’s immigration regime Canada has engaged in an immigration policy experiment of momentous importance over the last 25 years: it has almost doubled the flow of new immigrants. This has not only strained Canada s absorptive capacity...
Editeur :
Invenire
Parution :
2022-08-10
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His only weapon was a cellphone. When civil war broke out in his home country in 2011, Hassan Al Kontar was a young Syrian living and working in the UAE. He refused to return to Syria for compulsory military service and lived illegally before being deported to Malaysia...
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Tidewater Press
Parution :
2021-05-14
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“A tour de force.” —Omayra Issa, Radio-Canada
Kidnapped by his father on the eve of Somalia’s societal implosion, Mohamed Ali was taken first to the Netherlands by his stepmother, and then later on to Canada. Unmoored from his birth family and caught between twin...
Editeur :
U of R Press
Parution :
2019-10-05
Collection :
The Regina Collection
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Americans don’t think of Canada as a source of potential terrorists—speaking a foreign tongue, serving a foreign religion, and invading their country. But when a million French-Canadians crossed the border between 1840 and 1930, many seeking work in New England’s...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2018-09-27
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Eat Local, Taste Global: How Ethnocultural Food Reaches Our Tables shows how the demand for ethnocultural vegetables on the part of Toronto’s South Asian, Chinese, and Afro-Caribbean Canadians is at odds with the corporate food regime. How does that regime affect the...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2017-10-01
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This collection of essays explores how women from a variety of religious and cultural communities have contributed to the richly textured, pluralistic society of Canada. Focusing on women’s religiosity, it examines the ways in which they have carried and conserved, and...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2016-01-01
Collection :
Studies in Women and Religion
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Engendering Transnational Voices examines the transnational practices and identities of immigrant women, youth, and children in an era of global migration and neoliberalism, addressing such topics as family relations, gender and work, schooling, remittances, cultural...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2015-05-04
Collection :
Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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This fifth volume of the History of the Prairie West Series contains a broad range of articles spanning the 1870s to the present and examines the mostly unexplored place of women in the history of the Canada's Prairie Provinces. From "Spinsters Need Not Apply" to...
Editeur :
University of Regina Press
Parution :
2015-03-20
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In Settling Saskatchewan, discover the Denesuline, the Cree, and the Metis. Discover the Oklahoma Blacks, the ubiquitous Scots, the people of German origin and Icelandic origin, the Lebanese, the Sudanese, and the Filipinos, among many others. Expertly identifying and...
Editeur :
U of R Press
Parution :
2013-09-01
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Out-migration, driven by high unemployment and a floundering economy, has been a defining aspect of Newfoundland society for well over a century, and it reached new heights with the cod moratorium in 1992. This Newfoundland “diaspora” has had a profound impact on the...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2013-06-01
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Multiculturalism and Integration provides new insights into the important issues of diversity, reasonable accommodation and identity construction in multicultural societies by examining the experiences of Canada and Ireland.Multiculturalism and Integration provides new...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2011-02-19
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I Have a Story to Tell You is about Eastern European Jewish immigrants living in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg in the early twentieth century. The stories encompass their travels and travails on leaving home and their struggles in the sweatshops and factories of the...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-10-03
Collection :
Life Writing
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Based on research conducted in the mid-1970s, this book profiles the regional development of Japanese cultural traditions in British Columbia, southern Alberta and metropolitan Toronto. The authors examine how long held Japanese beliefs and practices responded to the...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
2007-01-01
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“Where do you come from?” When Vijay Agnew first immigrated to Canada people would often ask her “Where do you come from?” She thought it a simple, straightforward question, and would answer in the same simple, straightforward manner, by telling them where she had been...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2006-01-01
Collection :
Life Writing
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“We are making an interesting break with conventional sociology.... In recent years sociologists, anthropologists, and other students of social behaviour have made considerable use of the network metaphor ... as a peg, as a witching wand, and as a blueprint.” –from the...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2006-01-01
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Faced with discrimination, early Chinese immigrants had little choice but to create their own economic niche. From the turn of the twentieth century into the 1950s, generations of Chinese immigrants toiled as laundry workers. This book poignantly describes why the...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
2003-01-01
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