Dear newcomer,

The Canadian immigrant experience is a layered one. It involves paperwork, grief, ambition, loneliness, reinvention, and loss, sometimes all in the same week.

However, the dominant stories about immigrants tend to flatten all of this into two categories: the struggling victim and the inspiring success story. I don’t think either version is honest or useful.

At The Newcomers, we try harder because we don’t treat immigration as a debate to be won or immigrants as a problem to be managed.

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