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Outbraving Forced Displacements in Colombia and Central America: Trajectories of Asylum and Resettlement in Canada
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- Author / Creator
- Mosquera Garcia, Maria, F.
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In my thesis, I analyze how people who experienced forced displacement in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Colombia account the emigration conditions in their home countries and their immigration process in Canada. Throughout a narrative and an experiential approach, I examine the migration journeys of at least two family members of three different familial groups (sixteen participants in total). In the first chapter, I portray my participants’ experiences of forced displacement in relation to the social, historical, and political conditions that forged their emigration processes and their asylum claim outside of Canada. I emphasize how the constantly changing events in Colombia and Central America pushed this group of people to move to different temporary institutionalized and non-institutionalized asylum locations. In the second chapter, I sketch how my participants’ resettlement stories portray processes of reconfiguration of identities that are shaped by the time, place and age of arrival; ‘culture shock’; language proficiency; family roles and structure of their family unit, as well as their premigration experiences. I aim to trace how multiple background variables affect this group of immigrants’ processes of adaptation and integration in the Canadian environment where they eventually live.
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- Graduation date
- Spring 2021
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- Type of Item
- Thesis
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- Degree
- Master of Arts
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- License
- This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.