Recherche dans la collection - [Private Refugee Sponsor No. S54 : Ottawa - Interview]

RESEARCH RESOURCE DIVISION FOR REFUGEES : CARLETON UNIVERSITY

2003-0101

Enregistrement sonore

3 of 3

1981/1982

interviewer, Patricia Saidak

Interview with an unidentified member of the Hugo Fischer Memorial Group. She shares her experience of sponsoring and helping a Southeast Asian family. The interviewee is asked a set list of questions which focus on the following issues: reasons for becoming a sponsor; the formation and responsibilities of the sponsor group; advice and support from other organisations; pledging of the funds required for the sponsorship year; Department of Immigration bureaucracy; background of the refugees and the adjustment and adaptation period (e.g., language training and job hunting); social contact and financial arrangements between the sponsors and the refugees; and reflections on the positive aspects and drawbacks of private sponsorship. <3h>

English

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Copyright owner: Gertrud Neuwirth.

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