Eritreans in Canada: The complicated joy of being together again
A year ago, Simret Tekele stood in front of the sliding glass doors at Toronto’s international airport and took a deep breath as she stepped into Canada – the final passage of an immigration journey that had begun in 2009, when she and her husband fled their native Eritrea.
This December, she stood on the other side of those doors holding her breath until a teenager in a black hoodie walked through. She grabbed the son she hadn’t touched since he was an infant – she’d left him in the care of her mother until she could get
