Stop Anti-Asian Hate Crime Advocacy Group To Release New Report Unveiling Hate Incidents Against Canadians of Chinese Heritage
For immediate release
[Richmond, BC] The Stop Anti-Asian Hate Crime Advocacy Group (SAAHCAG) invites members of community and media to attend a special roundtable featuring the release of a new report to shed lights on victims of hate crimes and incidents. This event is part of SAAHCAG’s initiative for the 2024 Victims and Survivors of Crime Week supported by the Department of Justice Canada.
When: Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 10:30-13:00 PT
Where: Chinese Cultural Centre of Great Vancouver, 555 Columbia St, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Registration (Mandatory): aahccc2021@gmail.comSAAHCAG launched an anti-discrimination reporting hotline (1-8779-123-123) in partnership with the BC Access Pro Bono Society Chinese Support Line in December 2021. The hotline has received 19 self-reporting cases since then. Based on an analysis of these reporting cases, SAAHCAG presents the report – One Hotline, Many Cold Lines.
The report summarizes the characteristics of anti-Chinese discrimination as follows:
- Types of Incidents: Racism and hate incidents take many forms, including, physically assault by stranger, verbal abuse or offensive racial slurs, stereotype and unfair treatment, and harassment or threat.
- Locations of Incidents: Racism and hate incidents could happen anywhere in our day life, from private spaces to public ones, and from physical locations to virtual ones.
- Targets of Incidents: Racism and hate incidents could happen to anyone in our community, regardless their social and economic characteristics. A visible Chinese ethnicity is the target.
- Systemic Discrimination: Incidents can result from individual behaviors as well as because of the consequences of systemic discrimination.
- Seeking for Support: There is a mixed outcome when victims seek for support.
- Traumatic Memories: Racism and hate incidents could cause severe and long-lasting traumatic memories.
The key findings of this report paint a deeply concerning picture of our society's ongoing struggles with racism, hate crimes, violence, discrimination, perhaps even more disconcerting, real systemic issues that disproportionately affect individuals of Chinese ethnicity.
The report will be released and distributed at the roundtable on May 14, 2024,
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Contacts:
Dr. Ally Wang
Email: aahccc2021@gmail.com
