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In a previous Art & Culture post, we presented an illustration from RefugiArte, an initiative of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) aimed at raising awareness…
![Image, trauma, violence, immigration, refugees, United Nations, Punche, Latin America, forced displacement, natural disasters, war, left behind.](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2023/10/map-of-the-world-1005413_1280-470x140.jpg?x81652)
RefugiArte is an initiative of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) aimed at raising awareness about the experiences of immigrants and refugees forced to leave their…
![Elemental, Disney, Pixar, Movie, Immigration, Migrants, Trauma, Natural Disaster, Displacement, Climate Change, Ghetto, Segregation, First-generation Immigrants, Generational Trauma.](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2023/08/Title_logo_-_Elemental-470x140.png?x81652)
“Elemental” is the new feature film just released by Disney and Pixar. The story is set in Element City, a metropolis where air, water, fire…
![dark photo of man sitting in sun with his head tilted back and eyes closed](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2022/07/Edited-Feature-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
“After witnessing his father and his uncle being murdered by the military, he fled his country at age of 19 and went through nine countries,…
![Woman lays in bed wide awake with light beside her](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2022/05/Feature-edited-470x140.jpg?x81652)
More than 250,000 new temporary residents land in Canada yearly as international students, skilled workers, and refugees. Many come with the goal of starting a…
![Trauma & Immigration Policy](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2021/08/AD2C7405-EB16-4B65-B23A-2BF1D125F7A8-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
In her TED Fellows video, Almudena Toral describes trauma as the “psychological wound that stays after something really terrible has happened to us.” Toral is…
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In 1994, my mother sponsored my brother’s immigration from the Philippines to Canada, where they settled in a predominantly Italian neighbourhood. Though my brother had…
![Sexual Freedom Only Part of the Equation for LGBTQ Refugees](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/08/Feature1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Montgomry Danton is a gay man from the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. In June 2014, he fled persecution in his home country to claim…
![LGBTQ Refugees Lack Mental Health Care](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2014/10/Sarah-Hall-Article-1-Feature-CROPPED-470x140.jpg?x81652)
In 2012, the Canadian government introduced cuts to the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP), which provides health coverage for immigrants seeking refuge in Canada. Coverage…