Instructions Academic Essay (30%) – Story of your family’s immigrant experience Do some research into your own personal or family ‘immigrant experience.’ Write an essay that summarizes your personal or ancestral immigrant experience. Use at least 5 peer-reviewed academic secondary sources (other than textbooks), such as books and articles. In addition, you can use oral sources, diaries, and any other materials that can shed light on your family’s immigrant experience. If you can’t find much specific information about your family’s immigrant experience, then write a paper that puts that particular history into a larger context that might focus on time period, place, reasons for migration, for instance. It doesn’t matter if you are 1st generation Canadian or 10th generation Canadian or of Aboriginal background (in the latter case you might reflect on the impact of Canadian immigration on your ancestors). You can choose to write about just one family line or about several. Your essay should try to address the following questions: from where did your ancestors immigrate? When and why? Where did they establish themselves? What was their experience?
