What has enabled or prevented racialized immigrant women from developing a sense of belonging in Canada and being seen by others as belonging? How is their sense of belonging being impacted today? Come join in this timely discussion on questions and tensions surrounding "belonging" as experienced by multiple generations of immigrant women in Canada.

The panel will feature members of the Book Project Collective and local GTA area contributors to the recent anthology Resilience and Triumph: Immigrant Women Tell Their Stories (A Feminist History Society Book, published by Second Story Press), with an opening address from Eve Haque, Associate Professor in the Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University and author of Multiculturalism Within a Bilingual Framework: Language, Race and Belonging in Canada.

All are welcome to stay for refreshments following the panel.

We are grateful for this event's support from the following partner organizations:

Special thanks to the Centre for Women's Studies in Education at OISE for hosting this event.

About the book:

Developed with the Feminist History Society, Resilience and Triumph is a collection of true, first-person stories from 54 racialized immigrant and refugee women that creates an eclectic mix of three generations of voices. Women in their twenties to those in their seventies provide snapshots from the 1960s up to the present that capture the many intersections of gender with race, culture, class, religion and nationality in Canada over five decades. Together these vividly recounted entries document both historical and everyday moments that reveal striking similarities and differences for immigrant women coming from many parts of the globe.