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MacDonald E. Ighodaro. Living the Experience: Migration, Exclusion, and Anti-Racist Practice.

Publication: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
Publication Date: 22-SEP-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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MacDonald E. Ighodaro. Living the Experience: Migration, Exclusion, and Anti-Racist Practice. Halifax, NS: Fernwood Publishing Press, 2006. 192 pp. $ 24.95 sc.

Research relating to the African refugee population in Canada is scant. MacDonald Ighodaro, professor of Sociology and Criminology at Saint Mary's University helps to fill this intellectual gap. Through a critical anti-racist lens, Ighodaro's book, Living the Experience: Migration, Exclusion and Anti-Racist Practice, sheds light on the harsh situations of many African refugees and longer-established African Canadians.

Ighodaro posits that Canada's refugee policy is unjust in that it favours white-skinned Europeans over dark-skinned Africans. To buttress his claim, he points to Canada's preferential treatment toward Yugoslav refugees over Somalis in the 1990s. The former, unlike the latter, were granted permanent status...

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