Aggression and Bullying in Multicultural Canada: The Experiences of Minority Immigrant Girls and Young Women

Aggression and Bullying in Multicultural Canada: The Experiences of Minority Immigrant Girls and Young Women argues that the dominant culture in Canada segregates and ostracizes minority immigrant women and subjects them to aggression and humiliation. This book problematizes Canadian democratic racism, which facilitates the label of an outsider for minority immigrant women, even young adults, who were born in Canada. Based on extensive research in Greater Toronto Area, York Region, and Hamilton, this book explores first- and second-generation immigrant women’s experience with aggression and xenophobia in various spaces of their daily activities, as well as in different stages of their lives. These young women tolerate their parents’ post-migration frustration, abusive and neglectful school personnel’s attitude, and surrounding societal disapproval regularly. Khayambashi examines the aggression against minority immigrant women at micro, mezzo, and macro levels through a qualitative methodological approach. This book questions how directed aggression and micro-aggression would affect minority women’s identity formation and sense of belonging to their host country.

Table of Contents:
Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Immigration Youths: Living with Aggression, Isolation, and Unhomeliness Chapter 2. “I Hated High School”: The Experiences of the Young Minority Immigrant Women in Canadian High Schools Chapter 3. Minority Immigrant Youths and Adults Aggression Chapter 4. The Good, the Bad, the Repulsive Chapter 5. My Accent, My Name, My Identity Conclusion: Being an Immigrant in Canada Bibliography About the Author

About the Author :
Shila Khayambashi has a PhD in communication and culture from York University and Toronto Metropolitan University.

Review :
This book is a revolutionary view on bullying, systemic violence, and peer aggression, as it introduces the compelling concept of xeno-bullying to reflect on the intersectional and silent experiences of racialized, female immigrant youth from the global south. Khayambashi examines the experience of immigration and settlement to capture the challenges of this daunting process for immigrant children and young adults. She explores the challenges that follow these children through their demanding migration path into the host nation. Khayambashi depicts a detailed image of discrimination and violence experienced by immigrant children with their families, schools, and even among their peers. This book is packed with valuable information regarding the problems minoritized young immigrant women and girls confront. It is recommended for high school and university teachers, counselors, students, and their parents, as well as academic scholars and community members who are concerned about issues of aggression and bullying experienced by young minoritized immigrant women and girls.