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Does multiculturalism 'work'? Does multiculturalism policy
create social cohesion, or undermine it? Multiculturalism was
introduced in Canada in the 1970s and widely adopted
internationally, but more recently has been hotly debated, amid new
concerns about social, cultural, and political impacts of
immigration. Advocates praise multiculturalism for its emphasis on
special recognition for cultural minorities as facilitating their
social integration, while opponents charge that multiculturalism
threatens social cohesion by encouraging social isolation.
Multiculturalism is thus rooted in a theory of human behaviour,
and this book examines the empirical validity of some of its basic
propositions, focusing on Canada as the country for which the most
enthusiastic claims for multiculturalism have been made. The
analysis draws on the massive national Ethnic Diversity Survey of
over 41,000 Canadians in 2002, the most extensive survey yet
conducted on this question.
The analysis provides a new and more nuanced understanding of
the complex relation between multiculturalism and social cohesion,
challenging uncritically optimistic or pessimistic views. Ethnic
community ties facilitate some aspects of social integration, while
discouraging others. For racial minorities, relations within and
outside minority communities are greatly complicated by more
frequent experiences of discrimination and inequality, slowing
processes of social integration. Implications for multicultural
policies emphasize that race relations present important challenges
across Quebec and the rest of Canada, including for the new
religious minorities, and that ethnic community development
requires more explicit support for social integration.
Globalization has been defined as a process in which the population
of the world is increasingly bonded into a single society. Although
none of the contributors to this collection denies the thrust
toward convergence that is implicit in globalizing processes, each
contributor also concludes that globalization encourages
differentiation. Integration in the global system is not a passive
process. In different nations, people analyze and interpret what is
happening and respond by developing policies, forming new
institutions and changing existing ones. They adopt broad cultural
models in order to function effectively in the larger system and
they also draw upon their particular traditions, values,
institutions and resources to define a place that will be to their
advantage economically, politically and socio-culturally. As the
studies presented in this book show, integration in the world
system may benefit a given society or may harm it; it may entail
changes to a society's culture, but does not obliterate a society's
distinctive characteristics.
Greenwood Press's Contributions in Ethnic Studies series focuses on
the interactions and outcomes, both positive and negative, of
people from different cultures and their often dissimilar
expectations and goals. In The Governance of Ethnic Communities,
Raymond Breton examines Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish,
Portuguese, Ukrainian, and West Indian communities in Canada, with
occasional references to the native peoples and other ethnic
communities in that country and in the United States. These groups'
respectively unique cultural and historical matrices, coupled with
their status in the dominant social structure, furnish provocative
and diverse data and serve as the bases for scholarly
generalizations. From a previously rather underdeveloped
perspective, Breton looks at the ethnic community as a stateless
political entity with political structures and political processes
for self-governance, arguing that although these groups have no
state institutions, they do have public ones. He also highlights
the processes of collective decision-making, how participation and
resources are mobilized for collective projects, the relationship
between elites and members, conflict management, and the exercise
of power in managing community affairs. The relevant community
affairs are both internal matters, such as cultural events,
educational and religious activities, or aid to new immigrants, and
external affairs, such as immigration legislation and its
implementation, civil rights, and relations with the country of
origin. The volume's eight chapters explore the origin and
structures of governance; examine some of the processes of
governance, including community leadership and the formulation of
collective goals; and inquire into the construction and maintenance
of the sociopolitical community through an investigation of
individual participation in community affairs and of the group's
collective identity. Throughout this analysis, Breton considers the
impact of environmental forces and of internal political
competition. With its orientation toward significant variables and
principles, this important study represents an excellent summary of
current research on ethnic communities in North America and will
contribute greatly to the present understanding as well as future
investigations of such groups. It will be of compelling interest to
historians, sociologists, political scientists, psychologists, and
psychiatrists, among others.
Does multiculturalism 'work'? Does multiculturalism policy
create social cohesion, or undermine it? Multiculturalism was
introduced in Canada in the 1970s and widely adopted
internationally, but more recently has been hotly debated, amid new
concerns about social, cultural, and political impacts of
immigration. Advocates praise multiculturalism for its emphasis on
special recognition for cultural minorities as facilitating their
social integration, while opponents charge that multiculturalism
threatens social cohesion by encouraging social isolation.
Multiculturalism is thus rooted in a theory of human behaviour,
and this book examines the empirical validity of some of its basic
propositions, focusing on Canada as the country for which the most
enthusiastic claims for multiculturalism have been made. The
analysis draws on the massive national Ethnic Diversity Survey of
over 41,000 Canadians in 2002, the most extensive survey yet
conducted on this question.
The analysis provides a new and more nuanced understanding of
the complex relation between multiculturalism and social cohesion,
challenging uncritically optimistic or pessimistic views. Ethnic
community ties facilitate some aspects of social integration, while
discouraging others. For racial minorities, relations within and
outside minority communities are greatly complicated by more
frequent experiences of discrimination and inequality, slowing
processes of social integration. Implications for multicultural
policies emphasize that race relations present important challenges
across Quebec and the rest of Canada, including for the new
religious minorities, and that ethnic community development
requires more explicit support for social integration.
Title: Dictionaire francois-caraibe.Author: Raymond
BretonPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph
Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana,
1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and
other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to
the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of
discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the
U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans,
slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana
offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03975100CollectionID:
CTRG02-B438PublicationDate: 16660101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Two columns to the page.Collation: 415 p.; 16 cm
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