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Migration of Bengalis CANADA CANADA 150 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Migration of Bengalis HABIBA ZAMAN SANZIDA HABIB Editors Canada 150 Conference Proceedings: Migration of Bengalis Edited by HABIBA ZAMAN Professor, Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada and SANZIDA HABIB Research Associate, Center for India and South Asia Research University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Copyright ©2018 Habiba Zaman & Sanzida Habib Vancouver BC Canada Cover Design: Sanzida Habib Printed and bound in Canada by SFU Document Solutions CONTENTS Contributors .......................................................................................................................................................... vii Acknowledgments ............................................................................................................................................... ix Introduction: Canada 150 Conference on Migration of Bengalis ....................................................... 1 HABIBA ZAMAN AND SANZIDA HABIB Opening Remarks ............................................................................................................................................... 11 JANE PULKINGHAM “Are You a Bengali or Are You an Indian?” Bengalis in Canada ....................................................... 15 TANIA DAS GUPTA Migration of Bengalis to Canada: An Historical Account .................................................................... 31 BIDISHA RAY An Oral History of Bengali Immigrants in British Columbia: 1960 – 2017 ................................. 47 SUPRIYA BHATTACHARYYA In Pursuit of Our Dreams ................................................................................................................................ 59 KHALEDA BANU Bengali Immigrant Women: Health and Wellbeing .............................................................................. 69 SANZIDA HABIB “Multi-Cultural”: Straddling Continents, Straddling Identities ........................................................ 85 SARIKA BOSE Adaptation and Acceptance in Canada: A Story of a Student, Immigrant, and Citizen .......... 97 TAREQ ISLAM Making My Path in Canada: My Memoir .................................................................................................. 103 MARINA HOSSAIN Bengali Canadians in the National Capital Region (NCR): Mapping Social and Cultural Identities.............................................................................................................................................................. 111 MUSTAFA CHOWDHURY Empowerment: Intercultural Activities in a Community Garden ................................................. 131 RANJAN DATTA Challenges for Internationally Trained Engineers in BC and the Role of the Bangladeshi Engineers’ Association ................................................................................................................................... 149 IQBAL HOSSAIN BHUIYAN Ekushey February – International Mother Language Day: History, Significance and Implementation Challenges ......................................................................................................................... 159 MOHAMMAD AMINUL ISLAM AND MOHAMMAD ZAMAN GVBCA: Celebrating and Incorporating Bengali Culture in Multicultural Canada .................. 165 SANZIDA HABIB AND HAFIZUL ISLAM Coming Abroad to Find Home ..................................................................................................................... 177 CHINMOY BANERJEE Day 2 Welcome Address ................................................................................................................................ 187 MANDAKRANTA BOSE Can We Really Have a “Jaiga” (Space) in a New Place? An Ethnographic Quest of Migration, Identity, and Contributions of Bengalis in Manitoba ......................................................................... 191 C. EMDAD HAQUE AND HELAL MOHIUDDIN Split Between Cultures: Negotiating My Bengali and Western Girlhood ................................... 211 FARIHA KHONDAKER Unbelonging Between Turtle Island and Bangladesh: A Second-Generational Rambling .. 219 BIDUSHY RAHMAN The “Filmy” Life of a Bengali Western Boy ............................................................................................ 229 MAZ HAQUE The Evolution of Religious Identity of a First-Generation Bengali Immigrant ........................ 235 RAFIA MAHZABIN ROUNDTABLE I: Migration, Settlement Experience and Community Service in Greater Vancouver ........................................................................................................................................................... 243 SANZIDA HABIB ROUND TABLE II: Multiculturalism, Activism, and Social Justice ................................................. 249 SUPRIYA BHATTACHARYYA Appendices ......................................................................................................................................................... 255 Appendix 1: My Reflections on the Conference .................................................................................... 257 MUSTAFA CHOWDHURY Appendix 2: Conference Program .............................................................................................................. 261 vi CONTRIBUTORS Chinmoy Banerjee is a Professor Emeritus at the Department of English, Simon Fraser University. Khaleda Banu earned an MA in History from the University of Minnesota, and is a community organizer. Supriya Bhattacharyya earned an MA in Sociology from the University of British Columbia, and is currently working in a non-profit organization. Iqbal Bhuiyan is a Senior Consultant at Sperling Hansen Associates in Vancouver, British Columbia. Sarika Bose is a Lecturer in the Department of English, University of British Columbia. Mustafa Chowdhury is a retired Federal Civil Servant and a freelance writer. Tania Das Gupta is a Professor in the Department of Equity Studies, York University. Ranjan Datta teaches at the School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan. Sanzida Habib is a Research Associate at the Centre for India and South Asia Research, University of British Columbia. C. Emdad Haque is a Professor at the Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba. Maz Haque is a Mining Engineer in British Columbia. Marina Hossain is a Senior Data and Application Analyst in British Columbia. Hafizul Islam is the current President of the Greater Vancouver Bangladesh Cultural Association, British Columbia. Muhammad Aminul Islam is the President of the Mother Language Lovers of the World Society, British Columbia. Tareq Islam is the Director of Engineering and Community Services, Fraser Valley District, British Columbia. Fariha Khondaker is studying Gender Studies at the University of Victoria. vii Rafia Mahzabin is doing her MA at York University. Helal Mohiuddin is a Sessional Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba. Bidushy Rahman is studying Gender Studies at the University of Victoria. Bidisha Ray is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, Simon Fraser University. Mohammad Zaman is an International Development/Resettlement Specialist and a freelance writer. viii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This conference is the outcome of joint sponsorship by the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS), Simon Fraser University (SFU), and the Centre for India and South Asia Research (CISAR), University of British Columbia (UBC). It was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada, the SFU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) Dean’s Office, GSWS, CISAR, the Dr. Hari Sharma Foundation, the David Lam Centre/SFU, the Institute for the Humanities/SFU, the Departments of History, Sociology and Anthropology, and International Studies/SFU, and an anonymous donor. We are thankful to SFU FASS Dean Dr. Jane Pulkingham and UBC Professor Emeritus Mandakranta Bose for their opening remarks at the conference. As organizers, we gratefully acknowledge Dr. Mandakranta Bose’s unequivocal support for the conference. We would also like to acknowledge the support of Dr. Lara Campbell, Dr. John Harriss, Dr. Charles Greenberg, Dr. Bidisha Ray, and Dr. Mohammad Zaman, who chaired various sessions. Our heartfelt thanks go out to the two keynote speakers, Dr. Tania Das Gupta and Dr. C. Emdad Haque, as well as to all our presenters and to the participants of the two round table forums. Further, we would like to acknowledge the commitment and passion of several SFU and UBC students who volunteered their time: Somayeh Bahrami, Soheyla Tabai, Isha Sharma, Momoka Yamagata, Leena Hassan, and Maham Khanum. We also want to thank the members of our Conference Advisory Board – Dr. Tirthankar Bose, Dr. Chinmoy Banerjee, and Dr. Mohammad Zaman – for their generous support and advice. We express our sincere gratitude to Mazhar Haque for recording the presentations and editing the videos for YouTube, and to Gladys We of the FASS Dean’s Office for posting the videos on the SFU website. Further, we thank GSWS Library Liaison Moninder Lalli and Burnaby Campus Library staff for making a digitized copy of the Conference Proceedings available for the global community. Habiba Zaman especially thanks Beverly Neufeld of the FASS Dean’s Office, who read and advised on the grant proposal for the SSHRC Connection Grant. We also thank CISAR staff member Karen Jew for her assistance. Last but not least,
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