a Bangladeshi Canadian Immigrant Archive
Latest announcements from Dui Bhubon
Welcome to Dui Bhubon’s second Financial Literacy workshop in 2026, featuring Camila Arcon from YNCU and Aman Rahman as guest speakers. This year, in addition to learning about building good credit, we’re bringing some laughter to the conversation with Aman’s comedic talents.
Click here to book your spot. See you there!
Welcoming all Bangladeshi-Canadians between 18-45 years of age, we want YOU to test out your parents’ hacks, lifestyle tips, and tricks!
This competition is a chance to share our parents’ wisdom in a light-hearted way, while critiquing how this knowledge can be applied in a Canadian context.
Click on the link here to participate! Submission deadline is on November 1, 2026
Please read our guidelines and submission criteria carefully in the poster above to qualify. Check out our Instagram channel for the latest updates.
The Dui Bhubon Foundation is sponsoring up to 6 Bangladeshi-Canadian youth between 18-35 years old for the 2026 Toronto Waterfront Marathon.
Please click here to complete your registration by September 21, 2026.
Share your challenges and experiences, as a member of the Bangladeshi diaspora, through art, poetry, or photography.
Submit your work by October 31, 2026 11:59 p.m. at email: Mustahid.Husain@utoronto.com
Don’t forget there are cash prizes for the top three submission!
Dui Bhubon Foundation is collaborating with the Toronto Theatre Forum (TTF) for a live performance “Return of Luca”. The play follows a family raising Luca, a nonverbal autistic teenager.
Check out here for more information.
Dr. Mustahid Husain is conducting research for an upcoming book Bangladeshi Fatherhood: Parenting Reimagined Across Rivers and Oceans. We are seeking additional participants for this project, and selected individuals will be compensated for their contributions.
Click on this link to register your interest.
In the Greater Toronto Area, home to two-thirds of Canada’s approximately 130,000-strong Bangladeshi diaspora, as well as across other major diasporic sites outside Bangladesh, fathers navigate complex terrains of identity, expectation, and cultural transformation. This proposed book aims to examine how Bangladeshi fathers living outside Bangladesh, including both first-generation immigrants and those raised in their host countries, are reimagining fatherhood as they balance traditional Bangladeshi values with contemporary parenting approaches, creating hybrid models of masculinity and care that challenge conventional notions of both contexts.
Through intimate ethnographic portraits and participatory research methods, this book reveals the lived experiences of Bangladeshi fathers across generational divides. It explores how first-generation immigrant fathers carry forward, and sometimes reproduce, patterns from their own upbringing while simultaneously adapting to transnational and host-country contexts; how second-generation fathers negotiate between the expectations they experienced as children and the parents they aspire to become; and how economic pressures, religious practices, and gender ideologies shape everyday parenting decisions. By centering fathers’ voices and experiences, this book challenges stereotypical portrayals of South Asian immigrant masculinity and offers a nuanced understanding of how diasporic fatherhood is being actively reconstructed.
The proposed book intends to address a critical gap in scholarship on South Asian diaspora communities, Muslim masculinities, and transnational fatherhood. While considerable attention has been paid to immigrant mothers and to youth experiences, fathers remain largely invisible in academic and policy discussions, treated either as authoritarian figures imposing “traditional” expectations or absent from the conversation entirely. This book positions fathers as active agents in cultural negotiation and family well-being, examining how their parenting practices both shape and respond to the mental health challenges, identity struggles, and aspirations of their children.
More specifically, this book pursues three interconnected objectives:
Join us for a Q&A with the author Dr. Mustahid Husain on mental health and well-being of Bangladeshi Canadian youth across diverse identities.
Register here through the link
Time & Date: Saturday, July 25, 2026 (4-6 pm)
Location: Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen St W, Toronto
We are carrying out a research on to get an insight into the life experiences of Bangladeshi-Canadian immigrants, parents and their children. Our goal is to understand how dual identities and cultural background affect the relationship dynamics between the youth growing up in a Western society and the parents from Bangladeshi culture. To participate, please follow the instructions from the flyer.
Submit your video or photos to: submissions@duibhubon.ca
Canadian households are facing an unprecedented crisis with skyrocketing consumer debt and mortgage delinquency rates. Lack of awareness especially among immigrants and marginalized racial groups are contributing to these statistics. That is why we are launching our very first Financial Literacy Workshop to emphasize on the need to have a good credit history in Canada.
Register here on Evenbrite secure your spot in-person for free.