The process of migration has affected the Ethiopian Orthodox church in Toronto in both its music and musical practice as well as in the content and proceedings of its ritual. This has resulted in a transformation of cultural identity amongst the Ethiopian Orthodox community in T…
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The purpose of this study was twofold: to explore the acculturative experiences of Greeks in Toronto, Canada, and also to learn more about the nature of and assessment of “acculturative stress”, a construct used in the field of cross-cultural psychology to assess the adjustment …
For the first time in recent history, Somali society has experienced the plight of a mass exodus. Millions have been displaced by civil war and have sought refuge in places thousands of miles away from their homelands. There are tens of thousands of Somali refugees in Canada; th…
This dissertation examines intra-immigrant group similarities and differences in migration and settlement experiences, taking two south Asian subgroups in Toronto---Indian Bengalis and Bangladeshis---as a case study. The research contributes theoretically and empirically to thre…
My thesis is about the governance of trees through what seem to be natural configurations of order, and about how this form of tree governance is utilized to legitimize the governance of certain humans. By interpreting a series of in-depth interviews and participatory observatio…
This dissertation is based on 24 months of ethnographic research in Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan, and Toronto, Canada between 2001 and 2007, with a sustained year and half of ethnographic fieldwork in Toronto between 2002 and 2003. In this work, I use ethnographic methods to exa…
This study examines coverage of Jane-Finch in popular Canadian newspapers in 2007. It explores the often-negative representations of the community through conceptual frameworks based on the work of Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes and Edward Said. The question it attempts to answ…
This dissertation is the first to examine the various Muslim communities of Toronto. Toronto has a Muslim population of some 200,000 of the over 500,000 Muslims in Canada. This dissertation provides a description of many of the Muslim organizations in Toronto. The description an…
"Elusive Culture is an ethnographic study of youth engaged in a passionate quest for identity in global times. It explores questions of identity and culture at a Toronto high school, a space wherein teachers and students alike shift and slide in relation to the policies and prac…