Current curbs on international travel, economic crises, the targeting of minority groups, organized crime and inhumane practices like female genital mutilation (FGM) in faraway places are among the factors that will continue to force migrants to put their lives at risk to reach Canadian shores.
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Why have many brown, and other light-skinned immigrants, been conspicuously absent from the anti-Black racism protests taking place in cities and towns around the globe?
View More Anti-Black Racism Protests Should Prompt Introspection for South AsiansThe Sri Lankan civil war holds many a lesson for the island-nation’s diaspora community in Canada and the world in general, according to Erik Solheim, former Norwegian Minister for International Development and for the Environment. Solheim’s…
View More Solheim Calls on Diaspora to Work on Peace
May 2009, the civil war in Sri Lanka was grinding its way to an excruciating end. Government forces were in a decisive push against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) after more than…
View More Book Captures Tamil Diaspora’s Pain, Pride, Politics“No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land,” goes a verse penned by Somali poet Warsan Shire. She should know. Shire goes on: no one leaves home…
View More When the Tamil Boat People Came Ashore
“Did I tell you the time I was called ‘a little girl’?” asks MP Rathika Sitsabaiesan incredulously. Sitting in her election campaign headquarters in Scarborough’s Malvern neighbourhood, the first-term MP is recounting her experiences in…
View More Lone Tamil MP Seeks Re-entry into “White Man’s Club”When Sri Lanka celebrated its 67th Independence Day on February 4, it did so filled with hope that it can finally realize its true social, political and economic potential. Many Sri Lankan Canadians too are…
View More Sri Lanka’s Newfound Cautious OptimismCricket is often viewed as an exotic or foreign sport in Canada, but the truth of the matter is that the game has been played in this country for the better part of a century,…
View More Cricket in Canada: Over 200 Years OldIt is increasingly clear that millennials, those born since 1980, are fast re-defining the philanthropy landscape. And when it comes to diaspora millennials, this means countries around the world could potentially benefit. Millennials expanding meaning…
View More When Millennials Take Philanthropy “Glocal”If an immigrant community’s coming-of-age needs to be gauged in Canada, the way it is courted by politicians is a good indicator. Leaders of all hues, from the federal to the municipal level, put on…
View More Tamils emerge from the shadows