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International Migration Research Centre IMRC www.imrc.ca Affairs, Waterloo, Ontario, which explor... more International Migration Research Centre IMRC www.imrc.ca Affairs, Waterloo, Ontario, which explored challenges and opportunities for people arriving from refugee experiences in the Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge region. Methodology The workshop consisted of 23 participants, from a range of community organizations working with refugees in the Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge region. Community members, persons with refugee backgrounds, researchers, and students came together to engage in a dialogue on gender, sexuality and the experiences of resettlement in Canada. The first phase of the workshop began with an inductive exercise in 'naming the issues' where participants discussed the broader contexts around refugee resettlement and integration in the Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge region. The second phase used the World Café conversation strategy to create a living network of collaborative conversations 3 to discuss particular challenges to the everyday realities of refugees settled in the Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge municipalities, and best practices within four broad themes: (1) Health and wellness; (2) Families; (3) Social protection and economic security; and (4) Communities and identities. The third phase of the workshop was a roundtable discussion on gaps in knowledge and opportunities and policy recommendations; the Sli.do polling platform was utilized as an interactive tool. The following findings and policy recommendations are the result of our work (deep conversations) during the workshop. Policy Context Who is seeking refuge in Canada? The diversity of countries that produce refugees reflect a historical trajectory of international crises

Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 2001

A unt Jemima, an extension of the mammy stereotype, has emerged from the history of slavery and c... more A unt Jemima, an extension of the mammy stereotype, has emerged from the history of slavery and colonialism in North America as one of the most pervasive images of black womanhood and black motherhood. Though clearly an invention, since scholarly examination and personal narratives and biographies of black women in historical and contemporary eras fail to find women who conform to this image of servility, the stereotype is nevertheless powerful in its impact on hegemonic images and public policy concerning contemporary black women.

Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research …, 2005

With spec@ reference to selected works ofauthors, Nalo Hopkinson (1 998), Octavia E. Butler (1993... more With spec@ reference to selected works ofauthors, Nalo Hopkinson (1 998), Octavia E. Butler (1993) andjilmmaker, Julie Dash (1 991), this paper discusses images of pregnancy in African diasporic S/F (speculative fact andjiction) narratives in film and literature. Contraveningpopular stereotypes of black female pregnant bodies as overly fecund, wild and animalistic, pregnancy and pregnant, black women as portrayed by these Hopkinson, Butler and Dash instead symbolize transformative hope in their families and communities. "She nah have no ambition. She nah have no ambition at all, at aU, at all." This phrase is a short form in the anglo-Caribbean communities with which I am familiar for speaking of a particular type of shame. "She nah have no ambition. Insteada' study school, she-a study man." For on the one hand, the roundedness ofthe school girl's belly is a visible, tangible sign ofher sexual and moral agency, transgression andlor victimization. O n the other hand, however, children, and motherhood, in particular, are traditionally highly valued within African and African-Caribbean societies and are the occasions for religiousbased individual and familial celebrations. In societies where time is cyclical and circular and ancestorship ofone form or the other has influenced communitarian values, interpretations of Christianity and the development of New World African religions such as santeria and vodun, children are seen as the link between the present generation, the ancestors and the future. As NanaPeazant, the elder in Julie Dash's (1991) film, Daughters of the Dust, noted to a disillusioned great-grandson: "The ancestor and the womb, they one." Therefore, the juxtaposition of the devalued pregnant black female body as a sign of "shame" and sexual transgression rooted in experiences of sexual exploitation or wilW choices that contravene community norms against the high value of

pregnancy in African diasporic S/F (speculative fact andjiction) narratives in film and literatur... more pregnancy in African diasporic S/F (speculative fact andjiction) narratives in film and literature. Contraveningpopular stereotypes of black female pregnant bodies as overly fecund, wild and animalistic, pregnancy and pregnant, black women as portrayed by these Hopkinson, Butler and Dash instead symbolize transformative hope in their families and communities. "She nah have no ambition. She nah have no ambition at all, at aU, at all. " This phrase is a short form in the anglo-Caribbean communities with which I am familiar for speaking of a particular type of shame. "She nah have no ambition. Insteada ' study school, she-a study man. " For on the one hand, the roundedness ofthe school girl's belly is a visible, tangible sign ofher sexual and moral agency, transgression andlor victimization. On the other hand, however, children, and motherhood, in particular, are traditionally highly valued within African and African-Caribbean societies and are the occasio...

International Migration Research Centre IMRC www.imrc.ca Affairs, Waterloo, Ontario, which explor... more International Migration Research Centre IMRC www.imrc.ca Affairs, Waterloo, Ontario, which explored challenges and opportunities for people arriving from refugee experiences in the Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge region. Methodology The workshop consisted of 23 participants, from a range of community organizations working with refugees in the Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge region. Community members, persons with refugee backgrounds, researchers, and students came together to engage in a dialogue on gender, sexuality and the experiences of resettlement in Canada. The first phase of the workshop began with an inductive exercise in 'naming the issues' where participants discussed the broader contexts around refugee resettlement and integration in the Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge region. The second phase used the World Café conversation strategy to create a living network of collaborative conversations 3 to discuss particular challenges to the everyday realities of refugees settled in the Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge municipalities, and best practices within four broad themes: (1) Health and wellness; (2) Families; (3) Social protection and economic security; and (4) Communities and identities. The third phase of the workshop was a roundtable discussion on gaps in knowledge and opportunities and policy recommendations; the Sli.do polling platform was utilized as an interactive tool. The following findings and policy recommendations are the result of our work (deep conversations) during the workshop. Policy Context Who is seeking refuge in Canada? The diversity of countries that produce refugees reflect a historical trajectory of international crises

Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 2001

A unt Jemima, an extension of the mammy stereotype, has emerged from the history of slavery and c... more A unt Jemima, an extension of the mammy stereotype, has emerged from the history of slavery and colonialism in North America as one of the most pervasive images of black womanhood and black motherhood. Though clearly an invention, since scholarly examination and personal narratives and biographies of black women in historical and contemporary eras fail to find women who conform to this image of servility, the stereotype is nevertheless powerful in its impact on hegemonic images and public policy concerning contemporary black women.

Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research …, 2005

With spec@ reference to selected works ofauthors, Nalo Hopkinson (1 998), Octavia E. Butler (1993... more With spec@ reference to selected works ofauthors, Nalo Hopkinson (1 998), Octavia E. Butler (1993) andjilmmaker, Julie Dash (1 991), this paper discusses images of pregnancy in African diasporic S/F (speculative fact andjiction) narratives in film and literature. Contraveningpopular stereotypes of black female pregnant bodies as overly fecund, wild and animalistic, pregnancy and pregnant, black women as portrayed by these Hopkinson, Butler and Dash instead symbolize transformative hope in their families and communities. "She nah have no ambition. She nah have no ambition at all, at aU, at all." This phrase is a short form in the anglo-Caribbean communities with which I am familiar for speaking of a particular type of shame. "She nah have no ambition. Insteada' study school, she-a study man." For on the one hand, the roundedness ofthe school girl's belly is a visible, tangible sign ofher sexual and moral agency, transgression andlor victimization. O n the other hand, however, children, and motherhood, in particular, are traditionally highly valued within African and African-Caribbean societies and are the occasions for religiousbased individual and familial celebrations. In societies where time is cyclical and circular and ancestorship ofone form or the other has influenced communitarian values, interpretations of Christianity and the development of New World African religions such as santeria and vodun, children are seen as the link between the present generation, the ancestors and the future. As NanaPeazant, the elder in Julie Dash's (1991) film, Daughters of the Dust, noted to a disillusioned great-grandson: "The ancestor and the womb, they one." Therefore, the juxtaposition of the devalued pregnant black female body as a sign of "shame" and sexual transgression rooted in experiences of sexual exploitation or wilW choices that contravene community norms against the high value of

pregnancy in African diasporic S/F (speculative fact andjiction) narratives in film and literatur... more pregnancy in African diasporic S/F (speculative fact andjiction) narratives in film and literature. Contraveningpopular stereotypes of black female pregnant bodies as overly fecund, wild and animalistic, pregnancy and pregnant, black women as portrayed by these Hopkinson, Butler and Dash instead symbolize transformative hope in their families and communities. "She nah have no ambition. She nah have no ambition at all, at aU, at all. " This phrase is a short form in the anglo-Caribbean communities with which I am familiar for speaking of a particular type of shame. "She nah have no ambition. Insteada ' study school, she-a study man. " For on the one hand, the roundedness ofthe school girl's belly is a visible, tangible sign ofher sexual and moral agency, transgression andlor victimization. On the other hand, however, children, and motherhood, in particular, are traditionally highly valued within African and African-Caribbean societies and are the occasio...