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Title
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Missing Home: A Spanish Immigrant's Story
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Rights
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<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>
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Type
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Moving Image
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Creator
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Nayla Hamid
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Date
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2011-2018
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Description
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In Missing Home: A Spanish Immigrant’s Story, Madrid native, Silvia Garcia Pascual, speaks to what life is like raising children in London, Ontario. She moved here with her husband for work-related reasons but says she would go back to Spain in a heartbeat. She incorporates her culture into raising her family by cooking traditional Spanish meals, practicing Spanish traditions at Christmas, and speaking in Spanish to her kids. Given her English fluency, she says she’s adapted here very well but misses the habits of people from home. In Madrid, people are a lot more social and community is not as isolated. Here, she has to drive everywhere, and it is harder to build a community. She wishes her parents and family could take part in raising her kids, but she acknowledges the benefits of growing up Canadian as well. We often fail to realize how isolated immigrants may feel in Canada. Silvia is coming from a culture that stresses family and community, and seeing her describe life without her parents around shows a sad side to moving on. She mainly wishes they are here to see their grandchildren, and because of this desire, she has plans to move back to Spain as soon as she can.
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Format
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Video
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Language
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English, Spanish
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Place
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Madrid, Spain; London, Ontario, Canada; Uruguay
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Publisher
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Bridging Classroom and Community: Languages and Cultures in Action, Western University, Fall 2018
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Contributor
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Member of the Hispanic Community in London
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Extent
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4:54
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Identifier
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https://youtu.be/qvE3EYcf5Gs
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Relation
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Is part of Hispanic Collection
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Subject
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Children, culture, food, identity, home, Spain, family, married, nostalgia, Spanish, English, traditions, habits, Canada, work, 2011, career
