ISBN:
9781551308289
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (454 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.8/00971
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Front Cover -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Section One: Theory -- The Historical Background -- English-Canadian Opposition to Non-British Immigration -- Racism in Early Canada -- Immigration and Canadian Anti-Semitism -- The Geneva Convention -- Canada's Immigration -- Ethnicity and Social Class -- Immigration Policy in the Late 1960s -- Social Adjustment of Immigrants to Canada -- Multiculturalism -- Aboriginal People and the Meech Lake Accord -- The Ping-Pong Ethnic Politics of Contemporary Quebec -- The Tolerant Society Versus the Accepting Society -- The Properties of Culture and the Possession of Identity -- Ethnicity and Social Class Thirty Years after the Vertical Mosaic -- Belonging in a Multicultural Context -- Residential Patterns in Cities -- The Social Construction of Immigrants -- Immigration and Demographic Structures -- Managing Immigrant Social Transformations -- The Illusion of Multiculturalism -- Immigration Policy -- Section Two: Experience -- The Child Eventually Grows Up -- From The Sacrifice -- A Class of New Canadians -- Road Building by Pick Axe -- Griff! -- Swimming Lessons -- On the Eve of Uncertain Tomorrows -- A Garden of Her Own -- Jacob -- From Diamond Grill -- On Social Suffering: Fatima's Story -- Section Three: Documents and Tables -- Ethnic Origin of the Canadian Population -- Federal Multicultural Policy -- Canadian Multiculturalism Act -- Skilled Worker Self-Assessment -- Copyright Acknowledgements -- Back Cover.
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