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Satwinder Kaur Bains

Dr. Satwinder Kaur Bains is the director of the South Asian Studies Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley and an associate professor in Social Cultural Media Studies, College of Arts. Dr. Bains’ critical analysis of India’s multilingual policy and planning has fueled her interest to study the impact of language, culture and identity on South Asian Canadian migration, settlement, and integration. Her research includes and intersects cross-cultural education with a focus on anti-racist curriculum implementation; race, racism, and ethnicity; identity politics; Sikh feminist ideology; migration and the South Asian Canadian diaspora and Punjabi Canadian cultural historiography.

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