We invite all persons displaced by violence to reflect on and share their life experiences, here.
We invite all persons displaced by violence to reflect on and share their life experiences, here.
We launch this dossier with Life Stories of Montrealers displaced by War, Genocide, and other Human Rights Violations. This five-year oral history project explores survivors' experiences and memories of mass violence and displacement. A team comprised of dozens of university and community-based researchers are in the process of recording life story interviews with more than 500 Montreal residents from Rwanda, Cambodia, Haiti, Latin America, and South Asia, as well as Holocaust survivors.
Abdelkader Belaouni is a 41-year-old blind Algerian refugee living in sanctuary at Montreal's St. Gabriel's Church for the last three years. Kader's appeals for status and citizenship in Canada have been overlooked and he took refuge to remain in the country he now calls home.
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