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Ghanaian Immigrant Youth: Article Analysis

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The source is about the Ghanaian immigrant youth in the Jane and finch area and it discusses the ways in which these immigrants' experience social and spatial exclusion from their community as well as the police. The author's fundamental contention is that the Ghanaian immigrant youth who live Jane and Finch in encounter challenges constructing a sense of belonging and identity in an area associated with derogatory labels such as ghetto. Mariama Zaami argues that the migrants in Jane and Finch are racially profiled as police use typical stereotypes of black men and associate such neighborhoods with high criminal activity, high drug use. Police attempt to make the area safer through the use of extra surveillance and racial profiling of the black

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