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Release
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Launch of Daily Struggles:
The Deepening Racialization and Feminization of Poverty in Canada
May
29, 2008
(TORONTO) The gap in Canadian society between the representation
of how we are living, and what the majority experience as daily
struggles to live a quality life, is very wide. Community, labour,
and anti-poverty groups and activists will gather tomorrow (May
30, 2008) to discuss action strategies at the launch a new book
Toronto launch of Daily Struggles: The Deepening Racialization
and Feminization of Poverty in Canada, edited by Maria Wallis
and Siu-ming Kwok, published by Canadian Scholars Press 2008. This
book bears witness to this increasing depth of poverty in Canadian
society.
"The illusion
of a prosperous Canada for all persists," Maria Wallis, Co-Editor
said today referring to passages in the new book. "The denial
of the deepening and widening poverty in Canada is deafening."
For example,
racialized women are segregated into low-paying sectors and occupations.
The work they do is often precarious employment that is part-time,
contract, with little or no benefits. Many take on more than one
job to survive.
Where: Steelworkers
Hall, 25 Cecil Street, Toronto Ontario
When: Friday
May 30th, 2008, 10-11:30am
Speakers
include:
Peggy Nash - MP for Parkdale High Park
Estella Muyinda - Executive Director, National Anti-Racism Council
of Canada
Maria Wallis, PhD â€" co-editor
About the book:
Daily
Struggles opens with theoretical frameworks that examine the
racialization processes at work in Canada, with special attention
to the consequences relevant to gender. The social construction
of "race" and its subsequent devaluation and marginalization
has several implications for racialized individuals, especially
racialized women. In addition, this text examines the economic consequences
of race and gender are profiled; how poverty, race, and gender are
criminalized; the ways in which racialized people - specifically
women - are socially constructed to experience their lives as second-class
Canadian citizens; and the additional consequences of the racialized
and gendered nature of poverty - consequences that have a fundamental
impact on quality of life.
This event is co-sponsored by: Chinese National Council of Canada
(CCNC), National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC),
National Anti-Racism Council of Canada (NARCC), South Asian Womenâ's
Centre (SAWC) and Steelworkers' Toronto Area Council.
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For media interviews, please contact: Maria Wallis at 647-344-4970
or Victor Wong at (416) 977-9871.
Estella Muyinda
Executive Director
National Anti-Racism Council of Canada
215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 122, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C7
Phone:
416-979-3909
Fax: 416-946-1983
e-mail:estellamuyinda [at] narcc.ca
Web site: www.narcc.ca
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