Ethnicity and Human Rights in Canada
A Human Rights Perspective on Race, Ethnicity, Racism and Systemic Inequality
3rd Edition
Published on 1. April 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-19-541742-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines key issues surrounding ethnicity and human rights in Canada, revealing ways in which human rights violations, by way of discrimination on the bases of race and ethnicity, create and sustain the marginalized status of diverse racial and ethnic groups. Minority rights issues central to the concerns of Canada's three major ethnic consituencies are examined: Aboriginal peoples; Franco-Quebecois; and racial and ethnic immigrant groups. Other central issues-gender, religious symbolism, and the mosaic versus the melting pot-are also considered. In ten chapters, the author leads students through the pressures that flow from Canada's international human rights obligations, new patterns of immigration and ethnic structure, and the politicization of ethnicity. Racism, ethnicity, ethnic identity, social stratification, human rights violations, and the social construction of ethnic and other minorities are examined, as are the the vertical ethnic mosaic and the Canadian system of ethnic stratification. Ethnic integration including models, policies, and realities are well articulated, as are minority protest movements.
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
8 tables and 19 boxes
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
509 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-541742-5 (9780195417425)
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Previous edition
Evelyn Kallen
Ethnicity and Human Rights in Canada
Book
01/1995
2nd Edition
Oxford University Press, Canada
€35.49
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Content
Tables and Boxes; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction Conceptualizing the Human Rights Approach: Guidelines from International Human Rights Instruments; Chapter 1 Human Unity and Cultural Diversity: The Janus-faced Underpinnings of Ethnicity, Human Rights, and Racism; Chapter 2 The Anatomy of Racism: Key Concepts behind the Invalidation of Racial-Ethnic Difference; Chapter 3 Social Stratification: Human Rights Violations and the Social Construction of Ethnic and Other Minorities; Chapter 4 The Vertical Ethnic Mosaic: The Canadian System of Racial-Ethnic Stratification; Chapter 5 Ethnicity, Ethnocultural Distinctiveness, and Collective Rights Claims; Chapter 6 Ethnic Integration and Human Rights: Models and Government Policies of Incorporation of Immigrant and Aboriginal Minorities; Chapter 7 Minority Protest Movements: The Mobilization of Ethnicity in Pursuit of Protection for Minority Rights; Chapter 8 The Legal Framework for Protection of Minority Rights in Canada: Human Rights Statues; Chapter 9 The Legal Framework for Protection of Minority Rights in Canada: The Canadian Constitution and Its Charter of Rights and Freedoms; Further Readings; Glossary; Notes; References; Index