Contribute your story to a forthcoming volume: “Mama Says Good Girls Marry Doctors.” This book focuses on the pressures on South and East Asian women who have grown up in North America to be “good girls.” It seeks to collect the stories of such women, and their traumas, victories, and defeats as they face the control that their immigrant parents try to exercise over them in relation to the choice of a partner, or a career, or their freedom. We want to know how negotiating these pressures affects young Asian diasporic women, their relationship to feminism, to their parents and to their partners or siblings.

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The Globe & Mail, Focus - Friday October 16th 2009 :: Nazem Kadri: Canada’s new game face

I’ve recently moved to London, officially for Academic purposes, but unofficially to bask in the ultimate Global City and take part in it’s exhaustive list of arts and culture and general weekending inside the city’s heart. London is the bastion of mixing and diffusing, home to every culinary cuisine from virtually every corner of the earth, the premiere fashionista hotspot, and global trendwatching in politics, music and the catwalk.

Toronto-based MC and Poet Boonaa Mohammed never shies away from sharp words that uncover the harsh realities of immigrant life in Canada and countries of the West. The title of his latest spoken-word video, Green Card - commissioned for the Mayworks Festival of Canada - tells a powerful tale of the unjust and silent truths of immigrant hardships in countries where getting papers is like “winning the lottery”. Watch the video for a little slice of this narrator’s pointed perspective.

Current TV has produced a documentary on Pakistani immigrants in Barcelona. Spain has one of the highest numbers of Pakistani migrants in Europe, second to the UK. Current TV’s documentary shows some of the challenges …

It’s an idea I revisit often noting that the grandest improvisers I know are always immigrants. Immigrants who are rarely reliant on manuals, directions, courses, or packaged kits, because such inventions are over packaged frills for settled people, not fluid, transcendental, adapting newbies(ish). “We are still building our house on sticky foundation, so we bring our roots with us…or we make use of what we find”.

We trawl the news media so you don’t have to.

Czechs Cool to Presence of Workers From Asia :: The New York Times:

Meet Toronto’s little poet man :: The Toronto Star… Watch the Video!

The Intersection of Islam, America and Identity :: The New York Times… See the art pieces

We trawl the news media so you don’t have to.

Reign of immigration raids in Southern Ontario continues :: UFCW Canada
Sotomayor nomination: Is it about ethnicity? :: CNN.com
Warning: Reading can be dangerous - Soldiers try to shutdown literature festival :: Progressive.com
Boom time for GTA’s ethnic enclaves :: The Toronto Star
Ronald T. Takaki dies at 70; pioneer in the field of ethnic studies :: LA Times