Episode 04: Canada’s New American

Sometimes who you are cannot be defined by where you are from.

Meet Andrea.

Host of Canadian Salad and an immigrant to Canada from the United States, Andrea shares her immigration story and journey of self-discovery apart from where she came. Hear how stories at the US-Mexico border should compel Canada to be a safer country for refugees from the Global South. Hear what shocked her when she came to Canada, what assumptions people had of her and how she came to love an unknown part of her heritage that was fully realized in her new Canadian home. 

Episode Sources

Inhumane Measures to Prohibit Asylum Seekers from Mexico
The Safe Third Country Agreement
Canadian Council for Refugees Legal Proceedings Regarding the Safe Third Country Agreement

Quiz Sources

Canada’s Top Export to United States
Mexico’s Top Export to Canada