Arrivals

Arrivals
Pier 21, Halifax Port. Passenger arrival area, Vancouver Airport. Railway Station, Montreal. Areas of transition. Areas which narrate Canada’s immigration policy. Areas where the newcomers will come in contact with the host country for the first time. In this room, the immigrants’ oral testimonies are transporting us to the first period of their stay in Canada, describing their impressions, the hardships they faced, but also the contacts which played a decisive role in their adaptation to the new social, economic and cultural environment, mapping, in essence, the reconfiguration of their class, gender, national identity through the immigration experience.