Immigration, Racial and Ethnic Studies in 150 Years of Canada

Immigration, Racial and Ethnic Studies in 150 Years of Canada
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2019-01-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9004376089

Canada’s history, since its birth as a nation one hundred and fifty years ago, is one of immigration, nation-building, and contested racial and ethnic relations. In Immigration, Racial and Ethnic Studies in 150 Years of Canada: Retrospects and Prospects scholars provide a wide-ranging overview of this history with a core theme being one of enduring racial and ethnic conflict and inequality. The volume is organized around four themes where in each theme selected racial and ethnic issues are examined critically. Part 1 focuses on the history of Canadian immigration and nation-building while Part 2 looks at situating contemporary Canada in terms of the debates in the literature on ethnicity and race. Part 3 revisits specific racial and ethnic studies in Canada and finally in Part 4 a state-of-the-art is provided on immigration and racial and ethnic studies while providing prospects for the future. Contributors are: Victor Armony, David Este, Augie Fleras, Peter R. Grant, Shibao Guo, Abdolmohammad Kazemipur, Anne-Marie Livingstone, Adina Madularea, Ayesha Mian Akram, Nilum Panesar, Yolande Pottie-Sherman, Paul Pritchard, Howard Ramos, Daniel W. Robertson, Vic Satzewich, Morton Weinfeld, Rima Wilkes, Lori Wilkinson, Elke Winter, Nelson Wiseman, Lloyd Wong, and Henry Yu.

Ethnic Elites and Canadian Identity

Ethnic Elites and Canadian Identity
Author: Aya Fujiwara
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2012-11-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0887554296

Ethnic elites, the influential business owners, teachers, and newspaper editors within distinct ethnic communities, play an important role as self-appointed mediators between their communities and “mainstream” societies. In Ethnic Elites and Canadian Identity, Aya Fujiwara examines the roles of Japanese, Ukrainian, and Scottish elites during the transition of Canadian identity from Anglo-conformity to ethnic pluralism. By comparing the strategies and discourses used by each community, including rhetoric, myths, collective memories, and symbols, she reveals how prewar community leaders were driving forces in the development of multiculturalism policy. In doing so, she challenges the widely held notion that multiculturalism was a product of the 1960s formulated and promoted by “mainstream” Canadians and places the emergence of Canadian multiculturalism within a transnational context.

Multi-ethnic Canada

Multi-ethnic Canada
Author: Leo Driedger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1996
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

This book examines a broad range of topics and issues in Canadian ethnicity, including theories of ethnicity and ethnic change, a history of demography and multicultural regionalism, ethnic identity and identification, language and the Quebec "nation," rural and urban ethnic enclaves, racial inequality and powerlessness, class and socio-economic status, attitudes towards ethnic groups, and the quest for ethnic rights.

Religion and Ethnicity in Canada

Religion and Ethnicity in Canada
Author: Paul Bramadat
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2009-10-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1442697024

As the leading book in its field, Religion and Ethnicity in Canada has been embraced by scholars, teachers, students, and policy makers as a breakthrough study of Canadian religio-ethnic diversity and its impact on multiculturalism. A team of established scholars looks at the relationships between religious and ethnic identity in Canada's six largest minority religious communities: Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jews, Muslims and practitioners of Chinese religion. The chapters also highlight the ethnic diversity extant within these traditions in order to offer a more nuanced appreciation of the variety of lived experiences of members of these communities. Together, the contributors develop consistent themes throughout the volume, among them the changing nature of religious practice and ideas, current demographics, racism, and the role of women. Chapters related to the public policy issues of healthcare, education and multiculturalism show how new ethnic and religious diversity are challenging and changing Canadian institutions and society. Comprehensive and insightful, Religion and Ethnicity in Canada makes a unique contribution to the study of world religions in Canada.

A History of Ethnic Enclaves in Canada

A History of Ethnic Enclaves in Canada
Author: John Zucchi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2007
Genre: Canada
ISBN:

Examines various ethnic groups including British, Macedonian, Italian, Chinese, and Jewish immigrants; and ethnic neighbourhoods including Little Indias and Chinatowns in Canada.

Ethnic Demography

Ethnic Demography
Author: Shiva Halli
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 507
Release: 1990-06-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0773582282

Canada is a country of immigrants of different ethnic origins. This is the first volume that provides the demographic profile vital to an understanding of this country. Twenty-five of the top demographers in Canada draw upon 1986 and 1981 census figures and social surveys.

Ethnic Relations in Canada

Ethnic Relations in Canada
Author: Raymond Breton
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2005
Genre: Canada
ISBN: 0773529578

Annotation The collected writings of a leading authority on Canada's ethnic and linguistic diversity.

The Illusion of Difference

The Illusion of Difference
Author: Jeffrey G. Reitz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1994
Genre: Assimilation (Sociology).
ISBN:

In distinguishing themselves from Americans, Canadians have long used the language of metaphor to describe their society as a mosaic and the United States as a melting pot. To undertake this difficult challenge of comparing the cultural myths and realities of Canada and the United States, the C.D. Howe Institute drew on the expertise of two of Canada's most esteemed sociologists, Jeffrey G. Reitz and Raymond Breton, both of whom are professors of sociology at the University of Toronto. Their study, the result of an exhaustive review of the available public opinion data, helps bring a picture of Canadians and Americans into clearer focus. Topics covered are: Canadian beliefs about the mosaic and the melting pot; attitudes toward the retention of minority cultures; the extent of cultural retention; and prejudice and discrimination.

Canada's Diverse Peoples

Canada's Diverse Peoples
Author: John M. Bumsted
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2003-11-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1576076733

From Canada's profound racism in the 19th and early 20th centuries to its radical shift in immigration policy in the 1960s, this one-of-a-kind reference explores the past 1,000 years of ethnicity in Canada. In 1867 Canada was established as a political nation with two general ethnic cultures, yet more than 191 ethnic groups currently reside there. Canada's Diverse Peoples gives students of Canadian history, sociology, anthropology, and history a unique opportunity to understand the tensions, conflicts, and cooperation between Canada's indigenous and immigrant populations. In this comprehensive reference, Historian J.M. Bumsted takes readers on a chronological tour of Canada's ethnic history from aboriginal society and the French and English "founding cultures" to the "Alien Menace" of World War I and the influx of refugees after World War II. From the botched storming of the ship Komagata Maru and its forced return to India to Quebec's separatism, Bumsted explores one of the most important themes in Canadian historical development.