Solidarity Between Immigrant, Refugee and Indigenous Peoples: A Focus on Gender-Based Violence
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Steve Pecar insauga January 16, 2023
There are now more residents in Mississauga whose mother tongue is not one of Canada’s official languages.
The latest data released by Statistics Canada (StatCan) shows that combined, 328,130 people in Mississauga now list languages other than English or French as their mother tongue.
English and French combined are listed by 326,820 residents as their original languages.
OCASI is pleased to open registration for the upcoming self-directed online course on Addressing Anti-Indigenous Racism in the Immigrant and Refuge-Serving Sector.
The Conversation November 7, 2022 Sukhmani Khorana
Australia’s mainstream media has long viewed refugees, migrants and Indigenous communities through a “deficit lens”. That’s where these populations – in all their glorious complexity – are framed simply as a “problem” that needs to be “fixed”. Never achieving enough. Never grateful enough. Just never quite deserving enough to be seen as legitimate Australians.
Deena Zaidi CTV News Sept. 25, 2022
Canada is credited for having one of the world’s most immigrant-friendly policies, ranking fourth internationally in the Migrant Integration Policy Index. But the criteria used to prioritize applicants based on age leaves many at a disadvantage, even though they might have the qualifications Canada is looking for.
To those who misunderstand the need for critical race theory, learning about and understanding the legacy of racism in Canada and the world is critical to our collective future.
Christopher Cheung September 1, 2022 TheTyee.ca
[Editor’s note: Under the White Gaze originally ran as an exclusive Tyee email newsletter last fall. We’re republishing the full series of those essays on our site this month. This essay, the eighth in the series, was originally titled ‘Attack of the Shutdown Commands.’]
Look, I didn’t set out to write about whiteness.
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The self-directed course will run between September 12, 2022 - October 24, 2022. This self-directed two-part course series is developed to help front-line workers better understand and respond to sexual violence in immigrant and refugee communities.
Author: Celeste Pedri-Spade, Associate Professor & Queen’s National Scholar in Indigenous Studies, Queen’s University, Ontario
This study documents the evolution of the wealth of immigrant families and of their Canadian-born counterparts from 1999 to 2016. The study uses data from Statistics Canada’s Survey of Financial Security. The study finds that increases in housing equity and in the value of registered pension plan (RPP) assets were the main drivers of wealth growth from 1999 to 2016. However, the relative importance of increases in housing equity was greater for immigrant families than for Canadian-born families. This reflects the fact that compared with Canadian-born families, immigrant families generally hold a greater share of their wealth in housing but a smaller share in RPP assets. While the increases in home prices observed since the late 1990s drove much of the growth in housing equity, the lower rates of return on financial assets observed after 1999 were a key factor underlying the growth in the net present value of RPP assets.