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Madina Azizi-Personal Project
“Since I came to Canada, I have never seen a new immigrant in higher positions. Little by little, some are making it as professors and administrative staff. Where you can see many new immigrants at the university is in the service industry (janitors, cooks, fast food). I am not ashamed to say that is how I started. Before teaching, I was a waiter and then a janitor. I see myself in those who are working in fast food restaurants, cleaning floors, as administrative assistants because many of them are also university students. Like me, they are not giving up.” Leonzo Barreno is from Guatemala and has been living in Canada for decades. He is a sessional instructor at the U of R, school of journalism and on the verge of finishing his PHD. Photo by Madina Azizi.
Madina Azizi-Personal Project
“Since I came to Canada, I have never seen a new immigrant in higher positions. Little by little, some are making it as professors and administrative staff. Where you can see many new immigrants at the university is in the service industry (janitors, cooks, fast food). I am not ashamed to say that is how I started. Before teaching, I was a waiter and then a janitor. I see myself in those who are working in fast food restaurants, cleaning floors, as administrative assistants because many of them are also university students. Like me, they are not giving up.” Leonzo Barreno is from Guatemala and has been living in Canada for decades. He is a sessional instructor at the U of R, school of journalism and on the verge of finishing his PHD. Photo by Madina Azizi.