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Second-Generation Connections

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DOI10.1177/002070200806300108
Date01 March 2008
AuthorRima Berns-McGown
Published date01 March 2008
Subject MatterArticle
| International Journal | Winter 2007-08 | 115 |
The three essays that follow are personal explorations of identity and
connection, written by second-generation Canadians in their early 20s.
Meimuna Ahmed Gilao was not born in Canada, but arrived as a pre-school-
er. Sumaira Shaikh and Christopher Stuart Taylor were both born in Canada
to parents who remain actively connected to the countries of their birth, and
who have ensured that their children experience those bonds.
All three writers express anger and frustration over the racism they
have encountered, all three of them remain connected to the cultures their
families have bequeathed them, but all three think of themselves as deeply
Canadian. Their essays demonstrate both the complexity of their identities
and the ways in which that complexity is a fundamental element of their
very Canadianness.
Rima Berns-McGown
Second-generation
connections
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