Re/negotiating Home(s), identities, racism(s) and resistance in the lives of second generation Filipinas in Canada

grantor: University of TorontoThis study examines how second generation Filipinas develop a sense of "home" and belonging in Canadian society. It argues that notions of "home" are tied to how one understands experiences of racism as well as identity. I investigate such experiences in the schooling context to understand how second generation Filipinas are also affected and influenced by the national discourse of multiculturalism. By examining the lived experiences of these girls, I reach the conclusion that racial groups in society are differentially racialized. For second generation Filipinas, their everyday realities are defined by "ambivalence" as they simultaneously resist and conform to the dominant culture. But it is in these spaces of ambivalence that acts of transgression are made possible.M.A