Tikkun Beyond Borders: Connecting Youth Voices, Leading Change最新文献

{"title":"Facilitative Factors and Impediments to Newcomer Youth’s Initial Integration Milestones: The Arab Newcomer Youth Experience","authors":"Riham Al-Saadi","doi":"10.22329/digital-press.156.273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22329/digital-press.156.273","url":null,"abstract":"Within the Syrian refugees’ initiative, Canada has adopted a leading role in welcoming a significant number of Syrian refugees, over 1,600 of which have settled in Windsor-Essex. This signifies the importance of enhancing our role as a host society in fostering opportunities that would lead Syrians to a successful integration. This book chapter consults literature on acculturation as well as facilitative factors and impediments that influence immigrants and refugees’ integration.Integration is the strategy characterized by individuals or groups who are interested in maintaining their cultural heritage while establishing interactions with the larger society (Behrens, del Pozo, Großhennig, Sieberer, & Graef-Calliess, 2015; Berry, 2001, 2005, 2014; Paterson, 2008). The chapter also highlights the importance of incorporating youth’s perspectives to understand their integration experience. The stories of three youth present examples where youths’ motive for achieving potential combined with formal and informal supports can facilitate initial integration milestones. Engaging youth voices can be used as a means of healing by drawing on their perspectives, thereby, youth are acknowledged and valued. Consequently, reconciliation is an anticipated outcome through social integration opportunities that the host (Canadian) society can help foster.","PeriodicalId":291174,"journal":{"name":"Tikkun Beyond Borders: Connecting Youth Voices, Leading Change","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129758126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Kosovar Youth Doing Tikkun Insights from a Research-Based Action Project for Social Justice and Reconciliation","authors":"E. D. Selimos, Ereblir Kadriu, Janet Balyeat","doi":"10.22329/digital-press.156.246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22329/digital-press.156.246","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on peer-to-peer interviews conducted by/with highly-engaged Kosovar youth, this chapter considers how they make sense of their social activism within the context of a post-war Kosovar society. In particular, we identify how they learn about issues of social concern and take an active role in addressing these concerns. Analysis demonstrates that traditional institutions of socialization, personal experiences, and a strong sense of attachment to local place are important factors motivating their social change efforts. Furthermore, their social change efforts most often take place in non-governmental and youth-focused organizations, which enable but also shape the topics and nature of their social change agenda. Although highly-engaged Kosovar youth view their social engagement as important to building a better society, they also understood it as a means of gaining skills and experiences advantageous in a society which is attempting to integrate into the European Union. Finally, social change activities have important and positive benefits on young people’s sense of self and often result in important practical changes to their local communities.","PeriodicalId":291174,"journal":{"name":"Tikkun Beyond Borders: Connecting Youth Voices, Leading Change","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126731591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How Young People are Healing the World: An Activist Reflects on the Tikkun Youth Project","authors":"Daniel Mclaughlin","doi":"10.22329/digital-press.156.252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22329/digital-press.156.252","url":null,"abstract":"Young people everywhere face prejudice and discrimination. They are targeted for the same reasons older people are – because of their race, ethnicity, religion, gender, disability, or social status. They may live in societies where they face violence and deep personal strife. In addition to all of this, youth face the additional burden of discrimination on the grounds of their age. Most societies do not see young people as full citizens worthy of having a voice. Despite these barriers, the young people who participated in the Tikkun Youth Project, from five very disparate sites and demographics, demonstrated remarkable resilience, creativity, and willingness to engage with their communities. As an activist, I examined the civic engagement and rights-awareness of the young activist-researchers who appear in the international media, as well as those participating in the Tikkun Youth Project. I conclude, with some optimism, that young people are not waiting to become leaders: they are taking the reins and are making a positive difference – today. 67 | How Young People are Healing the World A young man named Aphiwe, who was from the community called Khayelitsha, an informal township in the South African city of Cape Town, told me a story. He was out for an evening with his friends. They were drinking beer (perhaps underage) in a hot and crowded venue when he decided to step outside for a breath of air, bringing his drink with him. As he was standing in front of the building, he was approached by several police officers. They told him it was illegal for him to be outside with his drink. He asked them why. They responded by beating him and breaking both his arms. “Did you complain to the authorities?” I asked him. He looked at me as if I had not understood what he had told me. If asking the simple question “Why?” of a police officer could result in a severe beating, did I not understand what complaining about police would do? Aphiwe was cared for by his friends who were also activists. They helped him get medical attention and kept him in the group while he recovered. This young man knew his town and understood the likelihood that a police complaint would result in further injury, or even worse consequences. Unlike some of us from more privileged communities, Aphiwe understood what it means to live with violence. As I was writing this chapter, I received the dreadful and tragic news that Aphiwe had been murdered. While I do not know the details, I was given to understand that his death was the result of a robbery gone terribly wrong. Aphiwe had only just learned that he had been accepted into a special program for talented young artists, likely the first person in his family to attend a post-secondary institution. His loss is immeasurable for his community, his family, and for his fellow activists. In all of the Tikkun study sites, we will continue to think about Aphiwe and mourn the loss we all feel for the brilliance he brought into our lives. I am a","PeriodicalId":291174,"journal":{"name":"Tikkun Beyond Borders: Connecting Youth Voices, Leading Change","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122974375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reflections of a First-Timer at a Provincial Rally: The Healing Power of Physical Presence and Bonding","authors":"E. Rose","doi":"10.22329/digital-press.156.258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22329/digital-press.156.258","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter encompasses my journey of being an impoverished student in Ontario, Canada. In this chapter, I articulate my own struggles that have shaped my identity of becoming a “youth advocate.” To expand, I will also discuss the validation that is received through community building and shared experiences while at an activism event, such as the $15 and Fairness protest. My journey went from feeling isolated in my own fight, to wanting to make a difference and having a desire to see a positive change for future generations. I will also touch on my experiences as a youth advocate in both a provincial rally setting, as well as an international youth advocacy project setting. It was not until the Tikkun Youth Symposium that I personally identified as a youth advocate. Once I saw that there were people from all different areas of the world who were in the same generation as myself, fighting for social economic justice in our separate communities, did I truly find comfortability in identifying as such while meeting some of the most special people. As youths in modern day society, it is our responsibility to heal and repair the world in the ways we best know how and to positively fight against the struggles of our communities. It is essential that experiences be shared and articulated, as well as building identification processes to feel comfortable in one’s own skin as a youth advocate. Experiencing the emotion and validation that is attached to being physically present at an activism event for the first time is important as well. Reflections of a First-Timer at a Provincial Rally | 124 Experiences of modern youth advocates portray online presence in the activism world as important, but it is not the only way to participate in youth advocacy or activism. There is a sense of community and bonding that happens at events that evolve from community organizing. The $15 and Fairness movement is based on an anti-oppressive lens, meaning it was not led or fully supported by one group of people: various groups were fighting for the advancement of economic justice. The $15 and Fairness movement takes place both online and in physical assembly, which is an attribute not so often seen anymore. The atmosphere of bodies and spaces is something that cannot be achieved on a strictly online activist community. The sense of friendship, community building, networking, success, and shared experiences can be found online, but the physical atmosphere of being in the middle of all the action at a grassroots event is an experience of a lifetime and belonging. Online activism is not the only way that this generation of youth advocates can take part in having their voices expressed. We have seen the enormous potential of activism that grows out of online communities. For example, the international Occupy Movement was facilitated by online engagement, but took shape by local camps. The Occupy Movement first took place on Wall Street in October of 2011 (Democracy Now, 2011). I","PeriodicalId":291174,"journal":{"name":"Tikkun Beyond Borders: Connecting Youth Voices, Leading Change","volume":"665 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122544871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Fight for $15 & Fairness: Exploring Youth Leadership for Economic Justice","authors":"Evelina Baczewska, Maria Frances Cachon","doi":"10.22329/digital-press.156.276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22329/digital-press.156.276","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter is about the social change efforts of youth—how they respond to the complex economic, social, and political conditions that shape their lives. Drawing on Paulo Freire’s (1996) notion of “praxis: reflection and action upon the world in order to transform it” (p. 33), we explore how youth take responsibility for “repairing the world (Tikkun Olam), through acts that promote social justice” (Berlinger, 2003, p. 30). Findings highlight intersectional struggles for economic justice—namely the Fight for $15 and Fairness movement. Foregrounding the importance of a distributive orientation to leadership, “(that is, leadership among many people) and of shared values and purpose” (Schmitz, 2012, p. 76), we illustrate how the social justice praxis of the Tikkun Youth Project and $15 & Fairness effectively center youth leadership. In so doing, the chapter contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of youth leadership––not as a product, but as a process––rich in transformative possibilities.","PeriodicalId":291174,"journal":{"name":"Tikkun Beyond Borders: Connecting Youth Voices, Leading Change","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128110755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Youth Perspectives on Community Activism: From the Personal to the Political","authors":"S. Dlamini, Cynthia Kwakyewah","doi":"10.22329/digital-press.156.264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22329/digital-press.156.264","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter presents findings from the Toronto Tikkun Youth Project participants about their community and civic engagement activities. Data was gathered through interviews with sixteen participants who were between 16 and 24 years old and were of varied ethnic and racial backgrounds. The chapter contributes to literature that challenges notions of youth apathy and shows the varied ways in which youth contribute to the development of their communities and to civic society, generally. Data from the project show the different ways that youth define community and civic engagement, as well as the divergent forms and motivation for participating in these activities. Notions of belonging to their community, desire to contribute, challenge stereotypes, and create meaningful futures for themselves, were mentioned as some of the reasons youth chose to engage in community life. The youth voices echoed in this chapter can be used to combat the ongoing notions about youth apathy and the decreasing level of youth community engagement. The data also shows the need for a more systematic mapping of youth engagement and their contribution to society. In this chapter, we present findings from data collected with youth in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), as part of the broader Tikkun Youth Project (2014-2017), with sites in Canada, Kosovo, and South Africa. The discussion presented herein is part of ongoing public and scholarly debates about youth civic engagement or lack thereof. In this chapter, we offer narratives that 189 | Youth Perspectives on Community Activism describe youth community activities alongside youth discussions of empowerment, advocacy, and their growing career/academic pathways through and because of their activities in community spaces. We define community engagement as activities that “engage youth in the civic life of their communities” (Zeldin, 2004, p. 632) and as “how an active citizen participates in the life of a community in order to improve conditions for others or to help shape the community’s future” (Adler & Goggin, 2005, p. 242). We also work with Berger’s (2009) categories of engagement, while acknowledging his stance that the notion of “civic engagement” per se is muddled and lacks scholarly clarity. Berger retains the notion of “engagement,” whilst distinguishing between political, social, and moral engagements and between engagement in (activity without attention); engagement by (attention without activity); and engagement with (attention and activity). We find these categories helpful in discussing the ways or levels of engagement that youth referred to as part of their community life. Cammaerts, Bruter, Banaji, Harrison, and Anstead (2014) reported that a significant portion of youth channel their political activities towards their social movement and civil organizing; therefore, any discussion about youth community engagement must intersect discussion on political participation. By including discussions on Tikkun youth’s po","PeriodicalId":291174,"journal":{"name":"Tikkun Beyond Borders: Connecting Youth Voices, Leading Change","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123573185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Becoming Social Activist Leaders: Stories of Passion, Motivation and Bold Ideas from the Township of Khayelitsha in Cape Town, South Africa","authors":"Siphenathi Fulani, S. Ismail, S. Khuzani, Lona Mtembu, Lyndal Pottier, Amanda Maxongo, Aphiwe Tomose, Phelokazi Tsoko","doi":"10.22329/digital-press.156.255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22329/digital-press.156.255","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":291174,"journal":{"name":"Tikkun Beyond Borders: Connecting Youth Voices, Leading Change","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130888976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Tikkun Indigenous Youth Project: A Land-based Well-being Retreat by Youth, with Youth, for Youth","authors":"L. Korteweg, J. Chan, Kylee Johnstone","doi":"10.22329/digital-press.156.261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22329/digital-press.156.261","url":null,"abstract":"Lakehead University’s Tikkun Indigenous Youth Project in northern Ontario/ Canada was a collaborative Indigenous youth leadership, community engagement, and well-being project that was designed to support Indigenous students who have to leave their northern home communities to pursue secondary schooling in Thunder Bay – a challenging, difficult, and risky journey for many. Through our collaborative research with high schools, youth role-models, and educators, we were able to provide the conditions whereby Indigenous youth gained opportunities to meet and gain strength with their Indigenous peers in culturally-focused activities, share stories in a holistic circle, and develop leadership skills while engaging in well-being practices and self-determining needs and actions. We ran the Indigenous Tikkun Youth Project to carve out action sites where young people from systemically oppressed and marginalized communities could self-determine their needs and actively contribute to collective healing, repair, and change through civic engagement in their school communities. We designed weekly Indigenous youth drop-in sessions, a leaders-intraining (LiT) program for self-selected Indigenous students, and our culminating Land-based well-being outdoor camp retreat. This chapter details the philosophy and purpose of the culminating Land-based wellbeing retreat, the Land-based outdoor leadership camp processes, the Leaders-in-Training strengths-based activities, and the responses of the youth participants, all decided, led, and engaged in by Indigenous youth, for Indigenous youth, and with Indigenous youth. The Tikkun Indigenous Youth Project | 162 This chapter focuses on a Land 1-based well-being retreat organized by, for, and with Nishnawbe2 youth in Thunder Bay, Ontario, as the culminating event of the Indigenous3 Tikkun Youth Project. Lakehead University’s Tikkun Indigenous Youth Project was designed to provide a culturally safe (Cooke, 2018; Hare & Pidgeon, 2011), holistically healing (Castellano, 2006; First Nations Health Authority, 2015; First Nations Information Governance Centre, 2014), and open/welcoming space (Korteweg & Bissell, 2016) where Indigenous youth would be able to decide by/for/with themselves what civic or community engagement means to them as Indigenous youth in Canada. Civic education was reconceptualized as a space for Indigenous youth to decide what actions they wanted to claim in order to start decolonizing education at this critical time of Canada’s post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) era. We felt compelled to try and improve Indigenous civic engagement education as we were already involved with many Indigenous education projects and knew how difficult and colonial education systems were for Indigenous youth across Canada. As stated in their own words, the Indigenous youth writers of the Feathers of Hope report (Provincial Advocate for Children & Youth, 2014) had many testimonials of how devastating and damaging coloniali","PeriodicalId":291174,"journal":{"name":"Tikkun Beyond Borders: Connecting Youth Voices, Leading Change","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131000114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unraveling the proverbial patchwork quilt*: Identifying and analyzing the challenges of an international, multi-site research partnership","authors":"J. Antoniw","doi":"10.22329/digital-press.156.279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22329/digital-press.156.279","url":null,"abstract":"Working on the Tikkun Youth Project for its entire duration, I was able to fully immerse myself in this multi-site, international, collaborative project. While it has been a very fruitful experience, working on such an expansive project comes with its challenges. Through this paper, I employ an autoethnography approach where I hone in on my experiences as the author and research assistant on this project, while exploring my own process and positionality in the project to identify the challenges that exist with this type of endeavour. I utilize three categories for this autoethnographic exploration: cultural, structural, and interpersonal/professional, as identified and outlined by Martin, Craft, and Tillema (2002). This paper aims to provide commentary about valuable lessons that were learned from this reflective process that could potentially provide perspective and recommendations to other individuals who may be working on or thinking about working on an international collaborative project in the future.","PeriodicalId":291174,"journal":{"name":"Tikkun Beyond Borders: Connecting Youth Voices, Leading Change","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124720967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Expanding Community Healing and Reconciliation through Therapeutic Art","authors":"A. Winter","doi":"10.22329/digital-press.156.234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22329/digital-press.156.234","url":null,"abstract":"The intent of this chapter is to determine the extent to which therapeutic art provides sufficient evidence to support healing and reconciliation. This will be explored by contemplating art as a mechanism for healing, both for the individual and for the larger community. The chapter will refer throughout to the prayer flag art experience that took place during the Tikkun Youth Project, as it aligns with the concepts of healing and reconciliation. The chapter will investigate the use of art as a means of collecting data and the use art as a form of research. Personal experiences, scholarly articles, and professional case studies will be utilized to support the hypothesis regarding the use of art as a means of healing and reconciliation.","PeriodicalId":291174,"journal":{"name":"Tikkun Beyond Borders: Connecting Youth Voices, Leading Change","volume":"175 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132231114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}