
My grandfather kept his rejected degree for 50 years. Decades later, Canada still deskills immigrants
PhD student Kaya M. Anderson says that public debates on immigration often overlook lived experiences of the people behind the numbers.

PhD student Kaya M. Anderson says that public debates on immigration often overlook lived experiences of the people behind the numbers.

For many older racialized immigrants, getting on a transit vehicle can mean navigating fear, confusion, and humiliation.

Oyinbokure presents what immigrants bring with them: their resilience, inventiveness, and enduring connection to their homelands.










Arts for Canadians Tomorrow Society created Toronto Spark to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
Arts for Canadians Tomorrow Society is grateful to be held on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, that is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We acknowledge our privilege to be gathered on this land, and commit to work with and be respectful to the Indigenous peoples whose arts and stories inspire us to bring communities together.