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Research Resource Division for Refugees: Carleton University fonds [sound recording] (RRDR)

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1980-1985.

Reference:

R13463-0-9-E

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3993131

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Research Resource Division for Refugees: Carleton University fonds
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Date(s):

1980-1985.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

1008 audio cassettes (ca. 1000 h)

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, Khmer, Chinese, Lao, Thai, Vietnamese

Scope and content:

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Oral history interviews of Southeast Asian refugees speaking the following languages: Cambodian, Cantonese-Chinese, Chinese, Laotian, Mandarin-Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese. Interviews were conducted in circa 1981. Dr. Gertrud Neuwirth at the Research Resource Division for Refugees (RRDR), Centre for Peace Action and Migration Research at Carleton University, was instrumental in conducting a three year study funded in part by Employment and Immigration Canada focussing on private (mostly parish groups) versus public (government) sponsorship of Southeast Asian refugees who arrived in Canada in the late 1970s.

Interviews were conducted with a sample group of refugees and private sponsors in Ottawa, the Ottawa Valley and Toronto areas.

Interviews were conducted in the mother-tongue of each refugee and then translated into English onto audio cassette. Many interviews with the refugees were conducted in English, after they had several months of schooling in ESL (English as a Second Language). Almost all interviews are part of a set of three interviews that includes a refugee interview, the refugee translated interview, and the sponsor interview. The purpose of the interviews was to provide findings of conditions relating to how the refugees were able to survive on their own after sponsorship.

Interviewers that interviewed refugees followed a standardized set of questions ranging from background, voyage to Canada, health issues, adapting to Canada, relationship with sponsors, ESL schooling, employment, becoming self-sufficient and providing for own family, impressions of the sponsoring system, etc.

Private and government sponsors were also interviewed. Private sponsors consisted of mainly groups of individuals from neighbourhood churches (Ottawa, Ottawa Valley, Toronto) who raised funds to sponsor a refugee and/or his/her refugee family for a period of several months.

Provenance:

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Gertrud Neuwirth, 1927-2006

Finding aid:

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(Electronic) Sound recordings: Consult the MISACS database for 514 item-level descriptions. (90: Open)

(Paper) Sound recordings: Finding Aid binder contains the complete listing of 514 item-level archival descriptions, the list of refugee sponsors, the list of privately-sponsored refugee interviews including respondent names, and questionnaires. (18: Restricted)

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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2003-00289-8
2003-0101 VSA
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Sound recordings

[Consultation18 Restricted]
Donor died in 2006. Contact Carleton University ethics division for access and reproduction.

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Consultation and reproduction with the written permission of Carleton University.

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