Flight and Freedom: Stories of Escape to Canada
Edit: Please note that the talk "Flight and Freedom: Stories of Escape to Canada" has been rescheduled to Wednesday, December 16 from 7-8 pm.
Join us on Monday, December 14 from 7-8 pm at North York Central Library to hear Ratna Omidvar read and discuss her book Flight and Freedom: Stories of Escape to Canada. The book presents a collection of 30 interviews with refugees, their descendants, or their loved ones to document their extraordinary, and sometimes harrowing, journeys of flight.
The stories span two centuries of refugee experiences in Canada: from the War of 1812 – where an escaped slave and her infant daughter flee the United States to start a new life in Halifax – to the war in Afghanistan – where asylum seekers collide with state scrutiny and face the challenges of resettlement.
Ratna Omidvar is Executive Director and Adjunct Professor, Global Diversity Exchange (GDX), Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University and Chair of Lifeline Syria. In 2010, she was named a Nation Builder of the decade for citizenship by the Globe and Mail.
To register for this program, please call 416-395-5660
If you are interested in reading more about the personal experiences of refugees in Canada, you may be interested in the following books:
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One thought on “Flight and Freedom: Stories of Escape to Canada”
Dear All,
Beside of values of the book, it includes (p. 178) a false and abusive to Polish People information. It says “Polish SS”- which never existed (please check for Waffen SS Foreign Legions). Polish People struggled against German nazis from the very beginning to the last moment of 2nd WW and never entered in formal collaboration with the ocupants. On contraire, our paren’ts and grantparenst suffered unbelievable terror from them, as well as from Soviet regime after the War. Meny of them took part in ressistance movement- the greatest among all occupied countries.
Therefore the book shuold be withdrawn from all libraries until the editor apologise Polish Nation and corrects the fatal lie.
Regards, Stanislaw Malik