Recently added articles from Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal:
Editor's note.(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2008; Aponiuk, Natalia ... This special themes issue, as the title indicates, examines the discourse on multiculturalism from a number of perspectives, which are discussed in the introduction by Professors Joseph Garcea, Anna Kirova, and Lloyd Wong. The three guest associate editors for this issue brought together ...
Introduction: multiculturalism discourses in Canada.(Work overview)
Mar 22, 2008; Garcea, Joseph ... CONTEXT AND FOCUS The management of ethnocultural diversity is a major governance function in most countries in the world today, and Canada is no exception. In most of these countries various approaches to diversity management have been highly scrutinized and debated in the ...
Multiculturalism and ethnic pluralism in sociology: an analysis of the fragmentation position discourse.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; Wong, Lloyd ... INTRODUCTION The two quotations (above) come from front page articles in the Calgary Sun (summer, 2006) that highlighted sociologist Mahfooz Kanwar's views of official Canadian multiculturalism policy shortly after the arrests in Toronto of eighteen people, including five ...
Les intellectuels quebecois face au multiculturalisme: heterogeneite des approches et des projets politiques.
Mar 22, 2008; Labelle, Micheline ... Apres des decennies de gains en politique de la reconnaissance de la diversite, les democraties liberales font entendre un rappel a l'ordre. Renforcement de la droite et du conservatisme, resurgence du racisme, exhortation a la cohesion sociale, prevalence de la securite caracterisent la ...
Press, public sphere, and pluralism: multiculturalism debates in Canadian english-language newspapers.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; Karim, Karim H. ... INTRODUCTION The value of multiculturalism has been an almost consistent concern in Canadian newspapers since the establishment of the policy in 1971. Writers periodically express strong opinions about how well or how poorly it has performed. The nature of the arguments are ...
Le discours de la <<nouvelle sensibilite conservatrice>> au Quebec.
Mar 22, 2008; Belkhodja, Chedly ... INTRODUCTION Ces dernieres annees, aux yeux de certains observateurs, les societes democratiques apparaissent moins lisibles qu'auparavant et, par consequent, plus difficiles a representer. Devant la montee de soi-disant nouvelles menaces, notamment le terrorisme et le ...
Critical and emerging discourses in multicultural education literature: a review.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Kirova, Anna ... INTRODUCTION Multicultural education in Canada was conceived as a response to cultural pluralism in society. It is linked to immigration and represents a shift in Canadian social policy that parallels dramatic shifts in immigration policy (Ghosh and Abdi 2004). As a result of ...
Fragmentation sociale et cohesion sociale en education au Canada.
Mar 22, 2008; Dalley, Phyllis ... INTRODUCTION En 1988, le gouvernement federal du Canada adopte une loi sur le maintien et la valorisation du multiculturalisme dans un cadre de bilinguisme officiel. Depuis, le multiculturalisme fait l'objet de plusieurs critiques (cf. Farmer 2003), notamment parce que, dans la ...
Postulations on the fragmentary effects of multiculturalism in Canada.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; Garcea, Joseph ... INTRODUCTION Multiculturalism has been the subject of substantial debates in Canada during the past four decades (Wilson 1993; Abu-Laban 1994; Sugunasiri 1999; Fleras and Elliot 2002). Such debates have intensified during the most recent decade largely as a result of the ...
Integration and identity in Canada: the importance of multicultural common spaces.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Dib, Kamal ... INTRODUCTION If there is a single defining characteristic of Canada, it must be space or, rather, the enormity of space. Its land area (10 million km) is second only to Russia, while its population is a mere 32 million, which yields a density of 3.2 people per square kilometre ....
Christopher Adams. Politics in Manitoba: Parties, Leaders, and Voters.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Wiseman, Nelson ... Christopher Adams. Politics in Manitoba: Parties, Leaders, and Voters. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2008. 233 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95 sc. Compared to studies of politics in other provinces, there is a dearth of material on Manitoba. This good, ...
Hans Werner. Imagined Homes: Soviet German Immigrants in Two Cities.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Ward, Natalie ... Hans Werner. Imagined Homes: Soviet German Immigrants in Two Cities. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2007. 297 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95 sc. This book seeks to examine the ways in which a multicultural receiving society (Winnipeg, Canada) influenced the ways ...
Irene Bloemraad. Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Trebing, Diana ... Irene Bloemraad. Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. 369 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $60.00 hc; $23.95 sc. In Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in ...
Royden Loewen. Diaspora in the Countryside: Two Mennonite Communities and Mid-Twentieth-Century Rural Disjuncture.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Friesen, John W. ... Royden Loewen. Diaspora in the Countryside: Two Mennonite Communities and Mid-Twentieth-Century Rural Disjuncture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. 331pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $74.00 hc; $25.70 so. Beginning with the 1930s, rural North Americans faced a ...
Jon Paul Fiorentino and Robert Kroetsch, eds. Post-Prairie: An Anthology of New Poetry.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Pivato, Joseph ... Jon Paul Fiorentino and Robert Kroetsch, eds. Post-Prairie: An Anthology of New Poetry. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2005. 160 pp. $19.95 sc. In Post-Prairie, the editors, Jon Fiorentino and Robert Kroetsch, complain that "the prairie was missing" from the poems that they collected in ...
Jose del Pozo Artigas, ed. Exiliados, emigrados y retornados: Chilenos en America y Europa, 1973-2004.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Spires, Adam ... Jose del Pozo Artigas, ed. Exiliados, emigrados y retornados: Chilenos en America Europa, 1973-2004. Santiago: RIL editores, 2006. 211 pp. Appendix. Bibliography. About the Authors. $25.00 sc. Entrenched in modern Chilean identity is the indelible memory of Pinochet's 1973 ...
Lorry Felske and Beverly Rasporich, eds. Challenging Frontiers: The Canadian West.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Kaye, Frances W. ... Lorry Felske and Beverly Rasporich, eds. Challenging Frontiers: The Canadian West. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2004. vii + 375 pp. Recommended Readings. References. Contributors. Index. $44.95 sc. Challenging Frontiers is a collection of essays concerned with bringing ...
Cheryl Teelucksingh, ed. Claiming Space: Racialization in Canadian Cities.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Liodakis, Nikolaos I. ... Cheryl Teelucksingh, ed. Claiming Space: Racialization in Canadian Cities. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006. 202 pp. Index. $32.95 sc. Canadian social science has been long preoccupied with relationships of domination and subordination among and within ethnic ...
Shanti Fernando. Race and the City: Chinese Canadian and Chinese American Political Mobilization.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Hasmath, Reza ... Shanti Fernando. Race and the City: Chinese Canadian and Chinese American Political Mobilization. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2006. 173 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95 sc. Shanti Fernando's book examines how the Canadian and American political systems ...
Birna Arinbjornsdottir. North American Icelandic: The Life of a Language.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Hale, Christopher ... Birna Arinbjornsdottir. North American lcelandic: The Life of a Language. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2006. 165 pp. Bibliography. Index. $34.95 sc. As she states in her Introduction (4), Birna Arnbjorndottir's book is based on her doctoral thesis which was submitted ...
