Postcolonial incorporation of the different Other

Ku, Jane

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“…Although they minimized their personal experience of discrimination and its impact (Malhi & Boon, 2007), the perception of group discrimination led to retention of their cultural heritage (Taylor, Wright, Moghaddam, & Lalonde, 1990), and strengthened their identification with their ethnic communities (Shemirani & O'Connor, 2006). Foreign-born women reacted differently to personal encounters of racism based on the extent to which they had adopted mainstream Canadian culture and their knowledge of their ethnic group's historical experiences of racism (Ku, 2005(Ku, , 2012. Ng (1981) concluded that ethnicity is not intrinsic but that immigrants find themselves being given an ethnic identity on arriving in Canada.…”

Section: Cultural Transitioning and Negotiating Gender Roles By Forei...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ng (1981) concluded that ethnicity is not intrinsic but that immigrants find themselves being given an ethnic identity on arriving in Canada. Some visible minority foreign-born women position themselves in social spaces and express their identities by celebrating their ethnic or religious differences (Ku, 2012;Ruby, 2006) or through community involvement and activism within both their cultural communities and in the wider Canadian society (Tastsoglou & Miedema, 2003). Activism by visible minority foreign-born women played a significant role in their integration into Canadian society and served as a strategy to advocate for their ethnic communities in Canada (Miedema & Tastsoglou, 2000), and to resist racial discrimination (Ku, 2011(Ku, , 2013.…”

Section: Cultural Transitioning and Negotiating Gender Roles By Forei...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Women’s experiences of immigration to Canada: A review of the literature.

Rezazadeh

Hoover

2018

Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne

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This systematic review of the literature on the experiences of first-generation immigrant women in Canada was conducted with the aim of describing the factors found in the peer-reviewed literature that affect all aspects of their adjustment and well-being. This review was as broad as possible, while restricting it to peer-reviewed studies published from 1980 through 2015. On the basis of a comprehensive search of key databases (ERIC, PsycINFO, Medline, PubMed electronic databases, and university library e-journal sources), 166 peer-reviewed articles were identified whose results described some aspect of foreign-born women’s experiences in Canada. These articles were read and coded for (a) general topic of the study, (b) research methodology, (c) number of foreign-born women participants, (d) participant demographics (country of origin, legal status, and location within Canada), and (e) academic discipline of the study. A 3-step grounded theory approach was used to categorize the research topics of the articles. Six research topics emerged that exhaustively categorized all 166 articles: cultural transitioning, employment, housing, intimate partner violence, access to medical care, and mental health and well-being. The main findings of each article are described under those 6 topics. Foreign-born women faced economic, cultural, linguistic, and systemic barriers that impeded their access to health, social, and economic resources. Nonetheless, many studies revealed effective coping strategies and support networks that eased their transition to Canadian society. On the basis of these results, recommendations are made for further research on foreign-born women and for more effective and culturally sensitive mental health services.

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Section: Cultural Transitioning and Negotiating Gender Roles By Forei...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Cultural Transitioning and Negotiating Gender Roles By Forei...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Women’s experiences of immigration to Canada: A review of the literature.

Rezazadeh

Hoover

2018

Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne

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“…Further, multi-cultural subject making is built on discourses of alterity, wherein migrants are constructed as Others (Ku, 2012), existing "outside of western history and development" (Ku, 2012, p.6). Immigrants are educated to become the "multicultural Self" (Ku, 2012), who must negotiate their differences by either attempting to celebrate or erase their differences. Race, gender, and other power dynamics function as invisible yet everpresent markers in these discourses (Ku, 2012).…”

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“…Immigrants are educated to become the "multicultural Self" (Ku, 2012), who must negotiate their differences by either attempting to celebrate or erase their differences. Race, gender, and other power dynamics function as invisible yet everpresent markers in these discourses (Ku, 2012).…”

Section: Multicultural Subject-makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Subtle Curry Traits: exploring constructions of “South Asianness” in a meme-sharing group

Baweja

2024

Preprint

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<p>Subtle Curry Traits (SCT) is a digital group, comprising of almost 1 million members, that was created by diasporic South Asian youth to share humorous posts. While the group serves as an avenue for community building, it constructs a South Asian cultural identity that is based on inclusion and exclusion. Informed by critical cultural studies, post-colonial scholars and, anti-racist transnational feminists I analyze how notions of South Asianness are articulated, expressed, and constructed in the group, paying particular attention to the identities that are erased and overlooked. I do this by providing a narrative literature review of digital spaces and diasporic youth, historical and diasporic formations of South Asianness, and by conducting a multimodal critical discourse analysis on 76 posts shared on SCT’s Instagram page. I find that the traits and realities highlighted on the group as “South Asian” construct a heteropatriarchal, casteist, and North-Indian based identity as South Asian.</p>

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“…Despite the reality that some migrants, particularly those from the Global South, have their own histories of colonialism and genocide, they often arrive in Canada with the illusion that fairness and equity are rooted in the values of the nation, when in fact, a history and legacy of colonialism and racism shows the opposite. Moreover, model minority theorists show how the construction of Asians as the desirable immigrant subject dismisses and delegitimizes the political claims of Indigenous peoples and non-conforming racialized others in the Global North (Park, 2011 ; Ku, 2012 ; Ngo, 2016a , b ). Within the model minority discourse, Asian peoples' successes are attributed to their “culture” which comprises hard work, self-reliance, and a focus on educational attainment.…”

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Racialization, colonialism, and imperialism: a critical autoethnography on the intersection of forced displacement and race in a settler colonial context

2023

Front. Sociol.

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Migration has been identified as a priority area for policy responses by both the federal and provincial/territorial governments yet, much of our knowledge about migration is not premised on addressing current xenophobic and racist narratives about migrants. The purpose of this research is an interrogation of Canada's colonialism, imperialism, and racialization, which produce specific oppressive policies and practices that have impacted my family. This research is premised on the understanding that in the space between what is known about migration in Canada and what is not, a great deal of narrative and interpretive work is done that makes assumptions about migrants, specifically forcibly displaced people from the Global South. Through a critical autoethnography focused on my lived experiences as a descendant of forcibly displaced Chinese-Vietnamese people living in a settler colonial nation state, this study critiques to what extent these assumptions are founded, and to what extent they represent a socio-political climate in which migration is set out as particular problems requiring a legal and policing solution. In particular, my analysis centers anti-colonialism and anti-racism, shifting to resistance to systemic violence and liberation, while considering the discursive and on-the-ground effects of racist, colonial, and imperial policies and practice. Set against the backdrop of the rise of white nationalism, xenophobia, and racism across all levels of government and academia, and the general public, the results of this study produce a counter-narrative focused on the intersection of forced displacement and race in a settler colonial context, which is both timely and urgent.

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Postcolonial incorporation of the different Other

Abstract: This article approaches the study of incorporation of 'visible minority' immigrants in Peterborough, Canada by insisting on framing their experiences in the legacies of colonialism, racial and ethnic formations, and processes that spill over nation-bound

Cited by 5 publications

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Women’s experiences of immigration to Canada: A review of the literature.

Women’s experiences of immigration to Canada: A review of the literature.

Subtle Curry Traits: exploring constructions of “South Asianness” in a meme-sharing group

Racialization, colonialism, and imperialism: a critical autoethnography on the intersection of forced displacement and race in a settler colonial context

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