Immigrant Women

Sharing learnings: How to center, amplify and support immigrant women’s voices

Collective Learning, Immigrant Women, Resilience, Sharing Power, Storytelling /

By Andrea Solnes (Learning Journeys Lead), Sandrine Espie (Pacific Immigrant Resources Society: Immigrant Services Learning Journeys Lead & Women’s Leadership Coordinator), Annelies Tjebbes (Learning Journeys Workshop Facilitator) Introduction Learning Journeys: Pathways for and with Immigrant Women is a 2-year social research and development project funded by IRCC (Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada). Learning Journeys brings […]

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Learning Journeys: Pathways for and with Immigrant Women

Collective Learning, Immigrant Women, Participatory Research, Resilience /

I can’t remember a time when work initiatives and personal values crossed paths as meaningfully as they are for me now. In creating spaces and opportunities for newcomers to bring their strengths to their new roles in Canada, and with a belief that now is the time to listen more carefully to quieter voices speaking

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Strength in Diversity

Collective Learning, Diversity & Inclusion, Immigrant Women, Refugee Men, Resilience, Social Innovation /

Awakening to Diversity I think about the first ELT (English Language Training) class I taught at ISSofBC 25 years ago and recall the diversity of personalities and ethnicities in detail that delights me: 4 resourceful, tough, and playful Vietnamese young adults who had spent too much of their lives in a refugee camp a Somalian

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