CMST 3RR3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Downtown Eastside, Forced Disappearance, Cultural Studies

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 3RR3
• Professor: Faiza Hirji

Document Summary

2010 native women association of can report found at least 582 indigenous women have gone missing or been murdered across can since 1960s. Federal gov money to native women funding for research was moved to the rcmp under harper. 2014 rcmp report 1181 cases found since 1980 issues in report including making it seem like an individual issue not sociological. Most cases of missing women parents or grandparents have attended residential schools traumas from residential schools have long term impacts that increase present day vulnerability. Posters posted around since 1970s at least 65 women have been disappeared from vancouver"s downtown eastside: implies actor of disappearance (been disappeared) 1/3 of photos used were mugshots police said those were most recent photos: many look like mugshots but cut out info. Rougher neighbourhoods fam members said this is why it took so long for police force to respond and for journalists to cover it.