Revisiting Multiculturalism in Canada : Theories, Policies and Debates /

Revisiting Multiculturalism in Canada : Theories, Policies and Debates / / edited by Shibao Guo, Lloyd Wong.

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In 1971 Canada was the first nation in the world to establish an official multiculturalism policy with an objective to assist cultural groups to overcome barriers to integrate into Canadian society while maintaining their heritage language and culture. Since then Canada’s practice and policy of mult...

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Superior document:Transnational Migration and Education
HerausgeberIn:
Guo, Shibao.
Wong, Lloyd.
Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2015.
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Language:English
Series:Transnational Migration and Education
Physical Description:1 online resource (340 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Theorizing and Debating Multiculturalism
  • The Three Lives of Multiculturalism
  • Intercultural Relations in Plural Societies: Research Derived from Canadian Multiculturalism Policy
  • A Canadian Anomaly? The Social Construction of Multicultural National Identity
  • Multiculturalism and Ethnic Pluralism in Sociology: An Analysis of the Fragmentation Position Discourse
  • Multiculturalism and Egalitarianism
  • Canadian Multiculturalism in the 21st Century: Emerging Challenges and Debates
  • Section II: Multiculturalism, Ethnicity and Belonging
  • Rethinking Multiculturalism in Canada: Tensions between Immigration, Ethnicity and Minority Rights
  • Canadian Jews, Dual/Divided Loyalties, and the Tebbit “Cricket” Test
  • Yiddish and Multiculturalism: A Marriage Made in Heaven?
  • Canadians under Suspicion: Sri Lankan Tamil Diasporic Community as a Suspect Minority Group
  • Section III: Youth, Identity and Racialization
  • Multiculturalism and the Forging of Identities by Lebanese-Origin Youth in Halifax
  • Multiculturalism as an Integrational Policy: Lessons from Second Generation Racialized Minorities
  • “And He Was Dancing Like No Tomorrow”: Police and Youth “Getting to Know” Each Other
  • Section IV: Multicultural Education
  • Critical and Emerging Discourses in Multicultural Education Literature: An (Updated) Review
  • Multiculturalism and Minority Religion in Public Schools: Perspectives of Immigrant Parents
  • From Integration to Empowerment: Multicultural Education in the Board of Education of the City of Toronto, from 1960 to 1975
  • Further Unpacking Multiculturalism in the Classroom: Continuing to Explore the Politics of Difference through Current Events
  • Section V: Future of Multiculturalism
  • Beyond Multiculturalism: Managing Complex Diversities in a Postmulticultural Canada
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index.

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