2. AAISA
Integration Summit
2017

3. ANIW Vision and Mission
To empower immigrant women across Alberta to play an active and integrated role as valued contributors to the Alberta community.
Mission
To provide knowledge for and about immigrant women and to lead and support initiatives which foster equality, justice and learning for immigrant women.
Established in 1986
Research
Forums & round table discussion
Recommendation into program
Solution focused
Partnerships

4. Strategies to Address Racism
How does racism impact us
Do we have tools to address Racism
What strategies individuals can use

5. 23% of Canadians believe some races are genetically smarter than other
25% of Immigrants have been victims of racism
52% of reported hate crimes were motivated
by race or ethnicity

6. How Does Racism Impact Us
An Impact of Racism Seldom Discussed

7. Internalizing Racism
Self doubt
Identity confusion

9. Psychological & emotional effects
Physical impact
Social effects
Financial effects

10. How does Racism impact Health?
Racial Discrimination
Biologic
stress
reactions
Emotional response
- PTSD
Trying to cope
- Drug abuse
- Drinking
- Other ways to escape
Health Impacts
-Dr. Cheryl Currie -incautious lifestyles – people harm themselves and their children by their bad behaviour – personal characteristics govern behaviour. System is adaptive during acute stress (oh no, a lion!), but maladaptive when the stress is chronic (Sapolsky, 1993)..

11. Do We Have The Tools to Address Racism
“People make racist comments, while looking you straight in the eye and the words pass right through the smile on their face.”
Do We Have The Tools to Address Racism

12. 1867
1947
1971

13. Do We Have Strategies to Address Racism
As Individuals .

17. that it exists, and that it is not something
Before we as a society can liberate ourselves from the grip of racism we have to acknowledge
that it exists, and that it is not something
which has been blow out of proportion;
nor is it the figment of some peoples imagination
– Adrienne Shadd, in McKague 1991

18. You Can Make
Change Happen

19. Citizenship Immigration Canada now know as IRCC
Our work on Racism was made possible by the funding ANIW has received over the years from
Citizenship Immigration Canada now know as IRCC
Alberta Human Rights Citizenship, Multiculturalism Education Fund
On behalf of all at ANIW we Thank our funders
Thank You for being here today

20. :the belief that some races of people are better than others
Definitions:
Racism: poor treatment of or violence against people because of their race
:the belief that some races of people are better than others
Discrimination: Act of behaviour that takes the form of verbal or non verbal abuse, graffiti, jokes slurs and physical assault. Is systemic when social and organization structure, policies and practices exclude those who are not part of the dominant culture.

22. To understand one needs to feel, hear and see to know its effects.
Definitions:
Internalized Racism: Term not widely used or understood, there is limited research on the subject.
Internalized racism is the personal conscious or subconscious acceptance of the dominant society’s racist views, stereotypes and biases of one’s ethnic group. It gives rise to patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving that result in discriminating, minimizing, criticizing, finding fault, invalidating, and hating oneself while simultaneously valuing the dominant culture.
To understand one needs to feel, hear and see to know its effects.

23. :the belief that some races of people are better than others
Definitions:
Racism: poor treatment of or violence against people because of their race
:the belief that some races of people are better than others
Discrimination: Act of behaviour that takes the form of verbal or non verbal abuse, graffiti, jokes slurs and physical assault. Is systemic when social and organization structure, policies and practices exclude those who are not part of the dominant culture.