@article{Dlamini_Wolfe_Anucha_Yan_2010, place={Montreal, QC}, title={EENGAGING THE CANADIAN DIASPORA: YOUTH SOCIAL IDENTITIES IN A CANADIAN BORDER CITY}, volume={44}, url={https://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/1054}, abstractNote={<!--StartFragment--> <p class="Pa4"><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva;">ABSTRACT. </span></span><span class="A7"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva;">This paper is based on qualitative interviews undertaken with im­migrant youth of African descent in Windsor, Ontario; it describes their so­journer lives across geographic borders and their final settlement in Windsor. The paper also offers narrations of the activities that enabled them to formulate friendships and the barriers and facilitators to the development of friendships across races. Critical findings reported in this paper reveal the ways that youth use resources in their travels to construct and negotiate their identities and to formulate new friendships. An important resource used by the majority of the youth was that of an imagined homeland, which consequently impacted on how they viewed and acted on the racial boundary critical in the formation of friendships in the Diaspora.</span></span></p><p class="Pa4"><span class="A7"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva;"> <!--StartFragment--> </span></span></p><p class="Default" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.05pt;"><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Geneva; color: black;">INT</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva;">É</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva; color: black;">GR</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva;">E</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva; color: black;">R </span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva;">LA </span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva; color: black;">DI</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva;">A</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva; color: black;">SP</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva;">O</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva; color: black;">R</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva;">A CA</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva; color: black;">N</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva;">A</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva; color: black;">DI</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva;">E</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva; color: black;">NN</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva;">E: LE</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva; color: black;">S ID</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva;">E</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva; color: black;">NTIT</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva;">É</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva; color: black;">S S</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva;">OC</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva; color: black;">I</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva;">ALE</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva; color: black;">S D</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva;">E</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva; color: black;">S </span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva;">JE</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva; color: black;">UN</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva;">E</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva; color: black;">S </span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva;">ÉTA</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva; color: black;">B</span></span><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva;">LIS DANS UNE VILLE CANADIENNE FRONTALIÈRE</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A3"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Geneva;">RÉSUMÉ</span></span><span class="A7"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Geneva;">. Inspiré d’entrevues qualitatives faites auprès de jeunes de descendance africaine établis à Windsor en Ontario, cet article décrit leur périple migratoire à travers les frontières jusqu’à leur établissement en Ontario. Il relate également ce qui les a aidés à bâtir des liens amicaux ainsi que les obstacles et les éléments facilitateurs au développement d’amitiés interraciales. Des résultats importants soulevés dans cet article expliquent les manières dont les jeunes utilisent les res­sources au cours du voyage migratoire pour construire et négocier leurs identités et établir de nouvelles amitiés. Il explore comment la majorité des jeunes créent un concept imaginaire de leur mère-patrie, influençant ainsi la façon dont ils perçoivent et agissent sur les frontières raciales fondamentales à la création d’amitiés au sein de la diaspora.</span></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> <p> </p> <!--EndFragment-->}, number={3}, journal={McGill Journal of Education / Revue des sciences de l’éducation de McGill}, author={Dlamini, Nombuso and Wolfe, Barat and Anucha, Uzo and Yan, Miu Chung}, year={2010}, month={Apr.} }