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Between Words

Anne Carson’s new book-without-a-spine, and the spiritual experience of centrelessness

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

A postmodern elegy from our most original writer

Boredom as a Political Weapon

Saul Bellow fought banality—and taught us to look hard at the world

Judith Ramirez

Judith Ramirez is a founding member of INTERCEDE, an advocacy group for the rights of foreign domestic workers in Canada. She has also helped establish a number of other community-based organizations dealing with the health and employment needs of immigrant women in Toronto.

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Judith Ramirez

Indentured Servitude

Does Canada treat its migrant workers any better than other countries do? March 2006
It was a strange experience reading Nandita Sharma’s Home Economics: Nationalism and the Making of “Migrant Workers” in Canada while fires raged every night in the suburbs of Paris last November as young men from ethnically Arab neighbourhoods protested their marginalization in French society. These explosive events, now vanished from the headlines as quickly as they…