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• Bad Blood: Refuge in the Queer Diaspora.

  Author:Lynn LyFrom:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 20197,863 words Article THE PHOTOGRAPH GAVE ME PAUSE. "I knew nothing about him, my uncle," I thought as I gazed at the small display screen of the camera. Unceremoniously placed on a plain mattress and reflecting the glaring flash of the...

• Introduction: Something Personal: Archives and Methods for Critical Refugee Studies in Canada.

  Authors:Thy Phu and Vinh NguyenFrom:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 20194,091 words Article THY: When we were growing up, my parents would drive my brother and I from Toronto to Niagara across the Rainbow Bridge to the malls in Buffalo, NY, a trip that I now think of as a summertime rite of passage. It seems...

• Twelve Vignettes: Tracing the Contours of Jewish Refugee Memory in Canada.

  Author:Valerie UherFrom:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 20197,791 words Article IN 1985 Paula J. Draper, then historical consultant with the Toronto Holocaust Memorial and Education Centre, wrote about her interviews with Jewish refugees from Nazi-controlled Germany and Austria who had been held in...

• The Canadian Fugitive Slave Archive and the Concept of Refuge.

  Author:Charmaine A. NelsonFrom:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 20199,898 words Article When in any state, the oppression of the labouring portion of the community amounts to an entire deprivation of their civil and personal rights; when it assumes to control their wills, to assign them tasks, to reap the...

• Celestial and Terrestrial Constellations: Relationality and Migration in Rebecca Belmore's Biinjiya'iing Onji (From Inside).

  Author:Maral MoradipourFrom:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 20198,489 words Critical essay I am six years old. My two-year-old sister and I sit in the front seat of a pickup truck on my mother's lap. A young Jewish woman sits next to us and digs her nails into my mother's thigh. She is terrified, having been...

• The Flag of Refugees: Critical Ethnography of a Vietnamese Canadian Community Conflict.

  Author:Anh NgoFrom:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 20196,436 words Article THIS CASE STUDY ILLUSTRATES the complex consequences of the pressure for political representation within a diasporic community. In 2015, an internal conflict disrupted a local Vietnamese women's agency in Toronto,...