Thursday, May 29, 2014
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Behind the Komagata Maru’s fight to open Canada’s border
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/komagata-maru-100-years-later/article18830049/
Dark chapter in Canadian immigration history included an unsung hero, among the first who can be called a defender of civil rights
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Friday, May 16, 2014
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Monday, May 12, 2014
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Where are these Women in Indian Elections?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=forgotten+red+street+woman+in+india
or
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=forgotten+red+street+woman+in+india
or
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=forgotten+red+street+woman+in+india
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Reports from the 1950s of emotional problems in adoptees
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Wendy Jacobs, B.Sc., B.A.
"The past is never fully gone. It
is absorbed into the present and the future. It stays to shape what we are
and what we do."
Sir William Deane, Inaugural Lingiari Lecture, Darwin, 22 August 1996.
Brief history of adoption in Australia
Adoption was a social
experiment in which babies born to unmarried mothers were taken at birth and
given to strangers for adoption. It was claimed to be in the best interests
of the child, who would be protected from the slur of illegitimacy and would
have a better life in the adoptive family. Adoption enabled infertile married
couples to have a family, and the State saved money on its welfare bill.Adoption legislation was first introduced in Australia in the 1920s, but adoption was slow to be accepted, due to the belief that immorality and other evil tendencies were passed on from mother to child. After World War II, however, when environment was seen as more important than heredity in the development of the child, adoption became more popular. It was believed that mothers would not bond with their babies if the babies were taken immediately after birth, and the mothers were prevented from seeing them, and that babies would bond successfully with their adoptive families if they were placed as soon as possible after birth. All ties with the natural mother were then severed, the child was issued with a new birth certificate which showed him as being born to the adoptive parents, and the records were sealed. Adoption was promoted as being in the best interests of the child. Mothers were expected to forget about their child and get on with their lives, get married and have children of their own. Adoption was seen as an instant 'cure' for infertility. None of these beliefs was based on any scientific evidence.
Reports from the 1950s of emotional problems
in adoptees
In fact there were
reports from Britain and the USA, from 1952 onwards, that a large number of
children seen in child guidance clinics and other psychiatric services were
adopted.In 1952 a British psychiatrist, Wellisch, drew attention to a problem of adoption - the lack of knowledge of and definite relationship to one's genealogy, which he termed genealogical bewilderment, and which could result in the stunting of emotional development in adopted children and could lead them to irrational rebellion against their adoptive parents and the world as a whole, and eventually to delinquency. This was echoed in 1955 by Winnicott, who said ignorance about their personal origin made adolescence more of a strain for adopted children than other children, and in 1964 by Sants who wrote that genealogical bewilderment is a factor which frequently appears to be present in adoption stress. |
Read more------ http://www.originsnsw.com/mentalhealth/id2.html
Monday, May 5, 2014
WHAT IS MODERN SLAVERY?
http://www.antislavery.org/english/slavery_today/what_is_modern_slavery.aspx
WHAT IS MODERN SLAVERY?
When we think about slavery what comes to mind is the Trans-Atlantic Slavery Trade, captured Africans, transported to the West Indies and America to work mainly in the sugar plantations. Although that slavery was abolished in 19th century, slavery still exists today. Although its modern forms are different, when we talk about slavery we do not use a metaphor.According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) 20.9 million men, women and children around the world are in slavery. In the 21st century people are still sold like objects, forced to work for little or no pay and at the complete mercy of their 'employers'.
There are many different characteristics that distinguish slavery from other human rights violations, however only one needs to be present for slavery to exist. Someone is in slavery if they are:
- forced to work - through mental or physical threat;
- owned or controlled by an 'employer', usually through mental or physical abuse or the threat of abuse;
- dehumanised, treated as a commodity or bought and sold as 'property';
- physically constrained or has restrictions placed on his/her freedom of movement.
Read more ----- http://www.antislavery.org/english/slavery_today/what_is_modern_slavery.aspx
: Beyond the Black Venus: Colonial Sexual Politics and ...
https://www.google.ca/search?q=beyond+the+black+venus+colonial+sexual+politics+and+contemporary+visual+practices&oq=%3A+Beyond+the+Black+Venus%3A+Colonial+Sexual+Politics+and+...&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0.5831j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8
http://www.hum.uu.nl/medewerkers/s.ponzanesi/Black%20Venus%2010Chapter8B1651.pdf
http://www.hum.uu.nl/medewerkers/s.ponzanesi/Black%20Venus%2010Chapter8B1651.pdf
Saturday, May 3, 2014
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