"Anchored in Our Culture, Focused on Our Future": Negotiating Spaces for Somali Women in Toronto

Do you believe you are oppressed or restricted in any way as a western Somali female?

  • Yes

    Votes: 2 33.3%
  • No

    Votes: 4 66.7%

  • Total voters
    6
"Anchored in Our Culture, Focused on Our Future": Negotiating Spaces for Somali Women in Toronto through Gashanti UNITY

This research presents and analyses the experiences of second-generation Somali women in Toronto, and argues that there is a significant gap in research about young Somali-Canadian women, and the way they utilize different strategies to manage their multiple and hyphenated identities in order to negotiate social and political spaces for themselves. Through organizations like Gashanti UNITY, with their Anchored in Our Culture, Focused on Our Future motto, young Somali women have taken ownership of their own narratives, through the sharing of their experiences and aspirations. This research seeks to examine and understand specifically the experiences of young self-identified Black, Muslim, Somali, Canadian women, drawing on an interdisciplinary theoretical framework, as well as Intersectionality and Black feminist theory. It highlights ways in which these young women resist and subvert multiple forms of oppression, including, racism, Islamophobia, xenophobia and sexism. This thesis concludes with suggestions for further research that considers the lives and contributions of young Somalis in Canadian society.

Keywords: Somali, Women, African, Black, Canadian, Identity, Intersectionality, Black Feminist Thought, race, gender, Islam, islamophobia.




This is a thesis submitted to the faculty of interdisciplinary studies at york University highlighting the struggles of young Somali Canadian women. Is there any truth to what the individual documents in her thesis?

The entire document is freely accessible on the web
 

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She probably was better off and middle class before she even landed in Canada since the first wave included better off folk. There is folk who are arriving fresh to this day. What chance do they have if folk who arrived 30 years ago still feel ostracized and oppressed?
Instead of feeling ostracized maybe working like other recent African communities will do us more good than harm. No one talks about Ethiopians in North America, they came they worked hard and they're succeeding.
 

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