Multiculturalism In Canada: Evidence and Anecdote

Multiculturalism In Canada: Evidence and Anecdote
Author: Andrew Griffith
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2015-08
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 098806409X

With over 20 percent of the population foreign-born, and with more than 250 ethnic origins, Canada is one of the world's most multicultural societies. Canada's ethnic and religious diversity continues to grow alongside immigration. Yet how well is Canada's model of multiculturalism and citizenship working, and how well are Canadians, whatever their ethnic or religious origin, doing? Will Canada's relative success compared to other countries continue, or are there emerging fault lines in Canadian society? Canadian Multiculturalism: Evidence and Anecdote undertakes an extensive review of the available data from Statistics Canada, Citizenship and Immigration Canada operational statistics, employment equity and other sources to answer these questions and provide an integrated view covering economic outcomes, social indicators, and political and public service participation. Over 200 charts and tables are used to engage readers and substantiate the changing nature of Canadian diversity.

Racisms in a Multicultural Canada

Racisms in a Multicultural Canada
Author: Augie Fleras
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2014-04-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1554589541

In acknowledging the possibility that as the world changes so too does racism, this book argues that racism is not disappearing, despite claims of living in a post-racial and multicultural world. To the contrary, racisms persist by transforming into different forms whose intent or effects remain the same: to deny and disallow as well as to exclude and exploit. Racisms in a Multicultural Canada is organized around the assumption that race is not simply a set of categories and that racism is not just a collection of individuals with bad attitudes. Rather, racism is as much a matter of interests as of attitudes, of property as of prejudice, of structural advantage as of personal failing, of whiteness as of the “other,” of discourse as of discrimination, and of unequal power relations as of bigotry. This multi-dimensionality of racism complicates the challenge of formulating anti-racism and anti-colonialist strategies capable of addressing it. Employing a critical framework that puts politics and power at the centre of analysis, this book focuses on why racisms proliferate, how they work in contemporary societies, and how the way we think and talk about racism changes over time. Specifically, it examines the working of contemporary racisms in a multicultural Canada that claims to abide by principles of multiculturalism and a commitment to a post-racial society.

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.

Acculturation

Acculturation
Author: John W. Berry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2019-08-29
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1108605230

Acculturation is the process of group and individual changes in culture and behaviour that result from intercultural contact. These changes have been taking place forever, and continue at an increasing pace as more and more peoples of different cultures move, meet and interact. Variations in the meanings of the concept, and some systematic conceptualisations of it are presented. This is followed by a survey of empirical work with indigenous, immigrant and ethnocultural peoples around the globe that employed both ethnographic (qualitative) and psychological (quantitative) methods. This wide-ranging research has been undertaken in a quest for possible general principles (or universals) of acculturation. This Element concludes with a short evaluation of the field of acculturation; its past, present and future.

Multicultural Education Policies in Canada and the United States

Multicultural Education Policies in Canada and the United States
Author: Reva Joshee
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0774841176

Multicultural Education Policies in Canada and the United States uses a dialogical approach to examine responses to increasing cultural and racial diversity in both countries. It compares and contrasts foundational myths and highlights the sociopolitical contexts that affect the conditions of citizenship, access to education, and inclusion of diverse cultural knowledge and languages in educational systems.

Multiculturalism Within a Bilingual Framework

Multiculturalism Within a Bilingual Framework
Author: Eve Haque
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1442640782

"From the time of its inception in Canada, multiculturalism has generated varied reactions, none more starkly than between French and English Canadians. In this groundbreaking new work, Eve Haque examines the Government of Canada's attempt to forge a national policy of unity based on 'multiculturalism within a bilingual framework, ' a formulation that emerged out of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1963-70). Uncovering how the policies of bilingualism and multiculturalism are inextricably linked, Haque investigates the ways in which they operate together as part of our contemporary national narrative to favour the language and culture of Canada's two 'founding nations' at the expense of other groups. Haque uses previously overlooked archival material, including transcripts of royal commission hearings, memos, and reports, to reveal the conflicts underlying the emergence of this ostensibly seamless policy. By integrating two important areas of scholarly concern -- the evolution and articulation of language rights in Canada, and the history of multiculturalism in the country, Haque provides powerful insight into ongoing asymmetries between Canada's various cultural and linguistic groups."--Publisher's website.

The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature

The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature
Author: R. Nischik
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 743
Release: 2014-08-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137413905

A first of its kind, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature provides an overview of Comparative North American Literature, a cutting-edge discipline. Contributors make important interventions into multiculturalism in North America and into U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada border literatures.

Cultural Diversity and Canadian Education

Cultural Diversity and Canadian Education
Author: John R. Mallea
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 567
Release: 1984
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0886290074

This thorough study will be of assistance to those seeking to understand the role of education in contemporary Canada. Education policy and practice regarding language and culture are highlighted, as is the crucially important question of cultural transmission.

Teaching the Cultural Multiplicity of Canada as Example for Diversity of Language and Behaviour within a Country

Teaching the Cultural Multiplicity of Canada as Example for Diversity of Language and Behaviour within a Country
Author: Anastasia Wolter
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 16
Release: 2015-01-09
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 365687221X

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,5, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Anglistik), course: Academic Writing, language: English, abstract: Whether Canada is as multicultural as it seems or if it is just the country of the encounter of different cultures without bringing them closer to each other is often discussed talking about diversity within countries. The population of Canada is culturally mixed because so many people from different cultural background live there. Nevertheless the globally admired multiculturalism of Canada is often regarded as superficially by other countries. It is necessary for students to be informed about how it is possible for some countries like Canada to host such a variety of cultures. Apart from that, they get to know how people are able to live peacefully together although they come from different cultural background and pay attention to different traditions. I analyze the differences between other countries and Canada in terms of multiculturalism and show how Canada portrays itself. This analysis finds out whether it is reality or ideology the inhabitants of Canada display. Afterwards I present methods of teaching the cultural diversity of Canada in school.