Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal articles from September 2000

Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal archives from September 2000

Violence Against Women and Ethnoracial Minority Women: Examining Assumptions about Ethnicity and "Race".
September 22, 2000... ABSTRACT/RESUME In the vast scholarship on violence against women in intimate relations, the experiences of ethnoracial minority women have largely been ignored. During the last decade, empirical attention has been given to ethnoracial...

Access to Housing as an Adaptive Strategy for Immigrant Groups: Africans in Calgary.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... ABSTRACT/RESUME Although Africans have been present in Canada for at least a century and a half, very little is known about them. This may be partly attributed to the tendency for earlier censuses and immigration data to lump all "Blacks"...

Public Opinion on Canadian Aboriginal Issues, 1976-98: Persistence, Change, and Cohort Analysis.(generational surveys)
September 22, 2000... ABSTRACT/RESUME This article sketches the broad contours of change and persistence in public opinion on selected aboriginal issues in Canada during the last part of the twentieth century, and conducts an exploratory investigation of...

"Mom is a Stranger": The Negative Impact of Immigration Policies on the Family Life of Filipina Domestic Workers.
September 22, 2000... ABSTRACT/RESUME Drawing on data from twenty-one in-depth interviews, government documents, and secondary sources, this study examines the consequences of current immigration policies on the life of Filipina domestic workers and their...

Revisiting the Notion of a 'Recast' Vertical Mosaic in Canada: Does a Post Secondary Education Make a Difference?(employment of minorities)(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... ABSTRACT/RESUME Using data from the Public Use Microdata File for Individuals drawn from the 1996 Canadian Census, this paper examines the extent of racial inequality among Canadians holding a domestically obtained, post secondary...

The Determinants of Academic Performance: Hong Kong Immigrant Students in Canadian Schools.
September 22, 2000... ABSTRACT/RESUME Using the concepts of financial capital, human capital, and social capital, this article attempts to disentangle the major factors which affected the academic performance of 368 recent Hong Kong immigrant students attending...

Review Essay: Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples. Paul Robert Magocsi (Ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. 1339 Pp. $300 cloth. To attempt a review and appraisal of a work of this magnitude may indeed seem like an ambitious undertaking. The...

Her Voice On Tape.(Short Story)
September 22, 2000... Michael bends over the sink and with his knuckles rubs the sharp black hairs on his chin. The hairs have arranged themselves in patches, like moss, some whiter than blossoms. He'll get younger when he shaves. "Never shave after you eat,"...