Multiculturalism and Immigration in Canada
An Introductory Reader
Will be published approx. on 30. August 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
426 pages
978-1-55130-249-2 (ISBN)
Description
Multiculturalism and Immigration in Canada: An Introductory Reader offers a solid introduction to the history and development of the ideology of multiculturalism in Canada. This ideology, which has become the primary designator of Canadian society today, began in the early 1970s when vocal elements in the population who were neither English nor French responded strongly to the investigations of the Committee on Bilingualism and Biculturalism.
Given Canada's early racist tendencies, the establishment of multiculturalism was a remarkable shift in public thinking. Many issues associated with immigration have arisen in the public debates around multiculturalism. Some people are convinced that it is a pernicious ideology that enforces the ghettoization of those different from the mainstream.
Others see dangers in the way some aspects of multiculturalism are merely tokens of an all-inclusive society. Still others contend that the voices of ethnicities aside from those of the two charter groups - English and French - are scarcely heard, and that worse, those marginalized voices are appropriated by mainstream writers.
Given Canada's early racist tendencies, the establishment of multiculturalism was a remarkable shift in public thinking. Many issues associated with immigration have arisen in the public debates around multiculturalism. Some people are convinced that it is a pernicious ideology that enforces the ghettoization of those different from the mainstream.
Others see dangers in the way some aspects of multiculturalism are merely tokens of an all-inclusive society. Still others contend that the voices of ethnicities aside from those of the two charter groups - English and French - are scarcely heard, and that worse, those marginalized voices are appropriated by mainstream writers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
605 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55130-249-2 (9781551302492)
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Dr Elspeth Cameron is the author of three award-winning biographies: Hugh MacLennan: An Author's Life (1981); Irving Layton: A Portrait (1985); and Earle Birney: A Life (1994).
Content
Introduction
THEORY
1. The Historical Background - From The Contributions of Other Ethnic Groups, ""Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, Book IV""
2. English-Canadian Opposition to Non-British Immigration - From The Calgary Herald, ""The Character of Our Immigration,"" January 18, 1899
3. Racism in Early Canada - From Economic Prosperity in the British Empire - Stephen Leacock
4. Immigration and Canadian Anti-Semitism - From None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948 - Irving Abella and Harold Troper
5. The Geneva Convention - From ""Britain Calls for Revision of Geneva Convention on Asylum"" - Julie Hyland, World Socialist Web Site
6. Canada's Immigration: The Ideological Background - From Planned Migration - William Peterson
7. Ethnicity and Social Class - From The Vertical Mosaic: An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada - John Porter
8. Immigration Policy in the Late 1960s - From Venture, ""The Canadian Experience"" - Freda Hawkins
9. Social Adjustment of Immigrants to Canada: 1940-1975 - From Immigration and the Rise of Multiculturalism, ""Social Adjustment"" - Howard Palmer
10. Multiculturalism: Ideology, Policy and Reality - Evelyn Kallen
11. Aboriginal People and the Meech Lake Accord: Critical Perspectives - From The Meech Lake Primer, ""What Are We? Chopped Liver?"" - Tony Hall
12. The Ping-Pong Ethnic Politics of Contemporary Quebec - From Risking Utopia: On the Edge of a New Democracy - Irshad Manji
13. The Tolerant Society versus the Accepting Society - From Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada - Neil Bissoondath
14. The Properties of Culture and the Possession of Identity: Postcolonial Struggle and the Legal Imagination - Rosemary J. Coombe
15. Ethnicity and Social Class Thirty Years after the Vertical Mosaic - From The Vertical Mosaic Revisited - Rick Helmes-Hayes and James Curtis
16. Belonging in a Multicultural Context - From Risking Utopia: On the Edge of a New Democracy - Irshad Manji
17. Residential Patterns in Cities - From Immigrant Canada: Demographic, Economic and Social Challenges - T.R. Balakrishnan and Feng Hou
18. The Social Construction of Immigrants - From Destination Canada: Immigration Debates and Issues - Peter Li
19. Immigration and Demographic Structures - From Immigrant Canada: Demographic, Economic and Social Challenges - Roderic P. Beaujot
20. Managing Immigrant Social Transformations - From Immigrant Canada: Demographic, Economic and Social Challenges - James S. Frideres
21. The Illusion of Multiculturalism - From Who Gets In? What's Wrong with Canada's Immigration Program - and How to Fix It - Daniel Stoffman
22. Immigration Policy: Imagined Futures - From Immigrant Canada: Demographic, Economic and Social Challenges - Alan B. Simmons
EXPERIENCE
23. The Child Eventually Grows Up - Eva Tihanyi
24. From The Sacrifice - Adele Wiseman
25. A Class of New Canadians - From A North American Education - Clark Blaise
26. Road Building by Pick Axe - From Woman in the Woods - Joy Kogawa
27. ""Griff!"" - From When Women Rule - Austin C. Clarke
28. Swimming Lessons - From Tales from Firozsha Baag - Rohinton Mistry
29. On the Eve of Uncertain Tomorrows - From On the Eve of Uncertain Tomorrows - Neil Bissoondath
30. A Garden of Her Own - From Out on Main Street and Other Stories - Shani Mootoo
31. Jacob - From Stories of the Road Allowance People - Maria Campbell
32. From Diamond Grill - Fred Wah
33. On Social Suffering: Fatima's Story - From Politics and Poetics of Migration: Narratives of Iranian Women from the Diaspora - Parin Dossa
DOCUMENTS AND TABLES
34. Ethnic Origin of the Canadian Population: 1971-1971 - From Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, Book IV
35. Federal Multicultural Policy, House of Commons Debates, October 8, 1971 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau
36. Canadian Multicultural Act, 1985 - Department of Justice, Canada
37. Skilled Worker Self-Assessment - Immigration Canada
Copyright Acknowledgements
THEORY
1. The Historical Background - From The Contributions of Other Ethnic Groups, ""Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, Book IV""
2. English-Canadian Opposition to Non-British Immigration - From The Calgary Herald, ""The Character of Our Immigration,"" January 18, 1899
3. Racism in Early Canada - From Economic Prosperity in the British Empire - Stephen Leacock
4. Immigration and Canadian Anti-Semitism - From None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948 - Irving Abella and Harold Troper
5. The Geneva Convention - From ""Britain Calls for Revision of Geneva Convention on Asylum"" - Julie Hyland, World Socialist Web Site
6. Canada's Immigration: The Ideological Background - From Planned Migration - William Peterson
7. Ethnicity and Social Class - From The Vertical Mosaic: An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada - John Porter
8. Immigration Policy in the Late 1960s - From Venture, ""The Canadian Experience"" - Freda Hawkins
9. Social Adjustment of Immigrants to Canada: 1940-1975 - From Immigration and the Rise of Multiculturalism, ""Social Adjustment"" - Howard Palmer
10. Multiculturalism: Ideology, Policy and Reality - Evelyn Kallen
11. Aboriginal People and the Meech Lake Accord: Critical Perspectives - From The Meech Lake Primer, ""What Are We? Chopped Liver?"" - Tony Hall
12. The Ping-Pong Ethnic Politics of Contemporary Quebec - From Risking Utopia: On the Edge of a New Democracy - Irshad Manji
13. The Tolerant Society versus the Accepting Society - From Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada - Neil Bissoondath
14. The Properties of Culture and the Possession of Identity: Postcolonial Struggle and the Legal Imagination - Rosemary J. Coombe
15. Ethnicity and Social Class Thirty Years after the Vertical Mosaic - From The Vertical Mosaic Revisited - Rick Helmes-Hayes and James Curtis
16. Belonging in a Multicultural Context - From Risking Utopia: On the Edge of a New Democracy - Irshad Manji
17. Residential Patterns in Cities - From Immigrant Canada: Demographic, Economic and Social Challenges - T.R. Balakrishnan and Feng Hou
18. The Social Construction of Immigrants - From Destination Canada: Immigration Debates and Issues - Peter Li
19. Immigration and Demographic Structures - From Immigrant Canada: Demographic, Economic and Social Challenges - Roderic P. Beaujot
20. Managing Immigrant Social Transformations - From Immigrant Canada: Demographic, Economic and Social Challenges - James S. Frideres
21. The Illusion of Multiculturalism - From Who Gets In? What's Wrong with Canada's Immigration Program - and How to Fix It - Daniel Stoffman
22. Immigration Policy: Imagined Futures - From Immigrant Canada: Demographic, Economic and Social Challenges - Alan B. Simmons
EXPERIENCE
23. The Child Eventually Grows Up - Eva Tihanyi
24. From The Sacrifice - Adele Wiseman
25. A Class of New Canadians - From A North American Education - Clark Blaise
26. Road Building by Pick Axe - From Woman in the Woods - Joy Kogawa
27. ""Griff!"" - From When Women Rule - Austin C. Clarke
28. Swimming Lessons - From Tales from Firozsha Baag - Rohinton Mistry
29. On the Eve of Uncertain Tomorrows - From On the Eve of Uncertain Tomorrows - Neil Bissoondath
30. A Garden of Her Own - From Out on Main Street and Other Stories - Shani Mootoo
31. Jacob - From Stories of the Road Allowance People - Maria Campbell
32. From Diamond Grill - Fred Wah
33. On Social Suffering: Fatima's Story - From Politics and Poetics of Migration: Narratives of Iranian Women from the Diaspora - Parin Dossa
DOCUMENTS AND TABLES
34. Ethnic Origin of the Canadian Population: 1971-1971 - From Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, Book IV
35. Federal Multicultural Policy, House of Commons Debates, October 8, 1971 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau
36. Canadian Multicultural Act, 1985 - Department of Justice, Canada
37. Skilled Worker Self-Assessment - Immigration Canada
Copyright Acknowledgements