Abstract: <p>The "Orillia Asylum for Idiots" (1861 - 2009), Canada's oldest and largest facility for the care and protection of children and adults with disabilities, was once praised as a beacon of humanitarian progress and described as a "community within a community." Yet, survivors who lived in the facility during the post Second World War period, a time described as the… more
Abstract: <p>This study will focus on how immigrants from Sub Saharan African (SSA) countries use humour as a tool for integration and belonging (and ultimately citizenship) in Canada. My aim is to investigate, through a detailed analysis of popular culture productions from immigrant communities, the strategies and techniques of humour that immigrants employ as a mode of communication with fellow… more
