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Five extraordinary immigrant women. Five amazing life stories.
What is it like to immigrate to a new country? To adapt to new customs but honour the customs of the home you left behind? What is raising children like in a new land? Will children value their parents' old customs as they grow up? Lina de Guevara, Hanny Pannekoek, Hemi Gunasinghe, and Comfort Ero can answer these questions. They all came to Canada as adults, and they have shared their amazing stories with another immigrant woman, Michiko Sakamoto-Senge.
Beauty of a New Land bears witness to the vital self-confidence and the sensitive awareness of five women who have made meaningful and happy lives for themselves in Canada while working to forge a just society for others.
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Michiko Sakamoto-Senge was born in 1940 in Tokyo, Japan. After completing a BA in English Language at Sophia University in Tokyo, she travelled to Chicago in 1963 to earn an MA in Sociology at Loyola University. She worked as a medical social worker at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. In 1971 she arrived in Victoria, where she and her Canadian husband raised two children. She worked as a social worker for the Victoria Family and Children's Service and established an immigrant services program at the Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria, where she worked for immigrants' and refugees' integration into the community, and for the development of multiculturalism. She taught sociology and Pacific Rim studies at Camosun College until her retirement in 2005. Throughout her life in British Columbia, she has volunteered for numerous organizations that support human rights and multiculturalism. She lives in Victoria with her husband, and has two children and two grandchildren.
