Multiculturalism and Immigration in Canada : an introductory reader

Cameron, Elspeth, 1943- (Added Author). Canada Canadian Multiculturalism Act. (Added Author).

Summary: "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." "Increasingly, marginalized new Canadians are excelling in the arts communities, telling all Canadians what various aspects of the culture shock of transplantation feels like. This book includes a representative sample of their works."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 1551302497 :
ISBN: 9781551302492 :
Physical Description: xxiv, 426 p. ; 23 cm.
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Publisher: Toronto : Canadian Scholars' Press, 2004.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes text of the Canadian Multiculturalism Act.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. The historical background -- 2. English-Canadian opposition to Non-British immigration -- 3. Racism in early Canada / Stephen Leacock -- 4. Immigration and Canadian anti-Semitism / Irving Abella and Harold Troper -- 5. The Geneva Convention / Julie Hyland -- 6. Canada's immigration : the ideological background / William Peterson -- 7. Ethnicity and social class / John Porter -- 8. Immigration policy in the late 1960s / Freda Hawkins -- 9. Social adjustment of immigrants to Canada : 1940-1975 / Howard Palmer -- 10. Multiculturalism : ideology, policy and reality / Evelyn Kallen -- 11. Aboriginal people and the Meech Lake Accord : critical perspectives / Tony Hall -- 12. The ping-pong ethnic politics of contemporary Quebec / Irshad Manji -- 13. The tolerant society versus the accepting society / 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 / Rick Helmes-Hayes and James Curtis -- 16. Belonging in a multicultural context / Irshad Manji -- 17. Residential patterns in cities / T. R. Balakrishnan and Feng Hou -- 18. The social construction of immigrants / Peter Li -- 19. Immigration and demographic structure / Roderic P. Beaujot -- 20. Managing immigrant social transformations / James S. Frideres -- 21. The illusion of multiculturalism / Daniel Stoffman -- 22. Immigration policy : imagined futures / Alan B. Simmons -- 23. The child eventually grows up / Eva Tihanyi -- 24. From The sacrifice / Adele Wiseman -- 25. A class of new Canadians / Clark Blaise -- 26. Road-building by pick axe / Joy Kogawa -- 27. "Griff!" / Austin C. Clarke -- 28. Swimming lessons / Rohinton Mistry -- 29. On the eve of uncertain tomorrows / Neil Bissoondath -- 30. A garden of her own / Shani Mootoo -- 31. Jacob / Maria Campbell -- 32. From Diamond grill / Fred Wah -- 33. On social suffering : Fatima's story / Parin Dossa -- 34. Ethnic origin of the Canadian population : 1871-1971 -- 35. Federal multicultural policy, House of Commons debates, October 8, 1971 / Pierre Elliott Trudeau -- 36. Canadian Multicultural Act, 1985 -- 37. Skilled worker self-assessment.