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Moving To Canada Summary

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A young child, Serat migrated to Canada at age 3 from Somalia, East Africa. Living the Canadian dream and Canadian culture while living with her aunt to get a better life.
She was never educated about the cultural traditional Somali rite of circumcision practices and beliefs of her birth country that are performed on females
Returning to her birth country to meet her mother as her heart longs to be reunited with her. However, Serat and her mother had different beliefs and they didn’t get along. She experiences cultural shock at the age of 13 by being awaken from her sleep in having her own birth mother and three other women performing Genital Mutilation on her .
Returning to Canada she was scared physically, emotional, psychologically,

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