Peer Aggression, Canadian Style: Multiculturalism and Xenobullying

In Canada, many first- and second-generation minority immigrants experience oppression based on their cultural characteristics. The dominant culture segregates and ostracizes the minority youths, which has been rendered invisible through democratic racism. The minority immigrant youths experience daily aggression within the school setting, perpetrated by students from their ethnic community, students from other minority ethnic communities, white students, teachers, counsellors, and school personnel. This dissertation problematizes Canadian democratic racism, which facilitates the label of an outsider for the minority immigrant youths. While some of these young adults are born in Canada, they do not believe they belonged to this nation. Democratic racism is what silences these young citizens. 
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\nThe immigrant youths' experience with aggression is not just within an educational institution. They also learn to manage aggression outside of the school system and at a societal level. After migration, these young adults become their immigrant parents' communicators and translators. These positions burdened with the labour of love heavily strain their social experience with the dominant culture. The extreme pressure that the minority immigrant youths endure from their parents and the lack of acceptability these developing young adults receive from the dominant culture create a sense of unhomeliness for them. These young people do not perceive themselves as members of their own ethnic communities, yet they do not feel they belong to their new host country. In my dissertation, I study aggression against minority immigrant youths in micro, mezzo, and macro levels through qualitative interviews. I question how the directed aggression and micro-aggression would affect the minority youths' identity formation and sense of belonging to their host country. 
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\nIn addition to exploring immigrant youths' physical interactions and face-to-face aggression, I examine the effects of cyber technology on youths' lives in general and minority immigrant youths in specific. I argue that while minority immigrant youths still prefer face-to-face interaction to torment each other physically, these young people utilize the cyberworld for other online harassment, such as sexual harassment and stalking.

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