Through mind-mapping and informal conversation, I gathered common themes in their experiences of marginalization and daily micro-aggressions. My Capstone project Looking in from the Outside explores the experiences of international and indigenous students in Canadian society. Participation would be a core aspect of interactions with my respondents, and I look forward to embarking on this self-reflective journey. My research endeavours to find a place for 'voices from the bottom', that is allowing care workers themselves to offer perspectives on what 'care' means, instead of the mainstream thinking of the '3Ds': dirty, dangerous, difficult. State laws on immigration are also discriminatory in the way they imply national ownership over 'foreign' bodies, classifying and delineating immigrants in ways that do not do justice to human rights promises. In Singapore, foreign workers face huge obstacles to social integration as they are not treated with mutual respect from wider society. Most domestic and institutional care workers are foreign immigrants, especially from the Philippines, Indonesia, China and Myanmar among others. The eldercare industry in Canada, especially Vancouver, has a lot of similarities with that in Singapore. Under the supervision of Dr Feng Xu, Lynn's research interest is in issues of Nationalism and migrant worker exclusion in the eldercare industry in Singapore, her home country.
Previously she studied in England where she obtained a BA(Hons) in Geography and a MPhil in Development Studies. Lynn is a first year PhD student in the department of Political Science at the University of Victoria(UVic) in Canada. For my capstone project, I decided to write a short children’s story about two sisters caught in an earthquake, learning important DRR lessons as they find their way back home to reunite with their parents. Over my internship, I realized how important being prepared for disasters was, and could see the gaps in DRR knowledge myself and other Canadians have. At work, I learned each day about Disaster Risk Reduction, a major topic of work for CITYNET. While living in Yokohama, I experienced two violent typhoons, and a number of small earthquakes. Throughout my internship with CITYNET Yokohama Project Office, an overarching theme of both my work and my day-to-day life was disasters and natural hazards.
Hanna turned to her little sister, grabbing her hand and screaming, “Earthquake!” Suddenly, Mimi was knocked off her feet as the ground seemed to jolt out from under her. Mimi and Hanna had gone to the market to pick up bread for dinner, as their mother instructed.
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