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How We Decide Who Is 'Worthy of Welcome'

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Canadian Aid for Refugees

In the book, am isra and her husband arrive in canada. They are settled by a group of five families. When their first year of assistance is up, they receive welfare. Isra's husband really struggled with mental health issues. He didn't feel like he could support his mam as she was on cash assistance. And i was shocked by this. So when we think about private sponsorship in canadaand which has been touted a sort of golden bullet rate,. We have to think about what it means to treat people who are arriving not as entitled to our support because they have been ther their homes have been decimated. Or do we receive them as sort of charity cases rate

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