Usha George
Professor and Dean
Faculty of Community Services
Ryerson University
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Older Tamil Immigrant Women and Their Attitudes
Toward Breast Cancer Screening
Friday, June 1st |
9:00 - 11:00 AM
Co-respondents: Sepali
Guruge & Parvathy Kanthasamy
Traditionally, in Tamil societies the responsibilities of health and well-being tend to be assigned to women who are wives, mothers, care-givers, and cultural-carriers. However, displacement, exile, and forced migrations have had a drastic impact on gender relations in Tamil society in the diaspora. This symposium will address gender roles, changing familial relations and functions as well as health and well-being of Tamil families in the diaspora in Toronto. While exploring how notions and perceptions of Tamil culture are instrumental in shaping and defining family and gender relations, the three individual papers in the panel will highlight: relationships between children and their parents; perceptions of and responses to intimate partner violence among Tamil women; and older immigrant women and their attitudes toward breast cancer screening.
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Dr. George's scholarship, teaching and creative professional activity
has been in the area of social work with diverse communities. Her
research focuses on three areas: social development; newcomer settlement
and integration; and diversity and organizational change. Dr. George was
instrumental in developing the Anti-racism, Multiculturalism and Native
Issues (AMNI) Initiative at the Faculty of Social Work at the University
of Toronto, which is a comprehensive approach to embracing diversity in
the organisational functioning of the faculty.