It is possible to overcome barriers to minority success in
Canada. The stance of this book is that new immigrants, refugees
and international students do not have to settle for
underachievement despite the cultural and structural disadvantages
they face in Canada. The fact is, the unequal social structure of
Canada has some cracks, and many minorities have used strategic
resources to open up these cracks and achieved tremendous upward
social mobility in Canadian society from the margins. These
documented minority successes in Canada in the face of systemic
marginalization provide lessons and hope for new immigrants,
refugees and international students.
The economic, political, social and cultural problems that
minorities encounter in Canadian institutions, organizations,
communities and from individuals overwhelm and break many of them.
However, some minorities break records in the face of the
frustrations they encounter. What accounts for the success of the
latter group of immigrants, refugees and international students in
Canada? Individual efforts and personal ambitions are not enough to
explain these success stories. This book highlights strategies and
support systems that facilitate minority strategic connections with
Canadian mainstream institutions, organizations and individuals to
win from the margins of society.
Although the book does not get into the theories of inequality,
equity and diversity, it does acknowledge the structural and
cultural barriers to minority success in Canada. That is, it does
not blame individual minorities for not making it in Canada.
Rather, it points to strategic resources that new immigrants,
refugees and international students can use to help them overcome
some of the barriers to success in Canada.
About the Author:
Dr. Adu-Febiri is currently Sociology Professor in the Department
of Social Sciences at Camosun College, British Columbia, Canada.
Francis is also an Associate Member of the Faculty of Graduate
Studies at the University of Victoria. He has presented and
published extensively on tourism, human factor development,
globalization, diversity, racialization, and ethnicity. He is the
author of "First Nations Students Talk Back: Voices of a Learning
People." Dr. Adu-Febiri is the founder and president of Workplace
Diversity Consulting Services (WDCS), and serves as the Chair of
the Ethnocultural Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Children
and Family Development, Victoria, British Columbia. He has been the
president of the Canadian Chapter of the International Institute
for Human Factor Development (IIHFD) since 2000.
Everett Ofori is the author of "Prepare for Greatness: How to
Make Your Success Inevitable" and "The Changing Japanese Woman:
From Yamatonadeshiko to Yamatonadegucci." In addition to four years
of volunteer service as an English teacher with the Intercultural
Association of Greater Victoria (British Columbia), Everett has
coached hundreds of university and high school students both in
Canada and Asia on how to hone their oral and written communication
skills. He holds a Master's in Business Administration (MBA) degree
from Heriot-Watt University (Scotland) and is currently working
through his Doctorate program.
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