Recently added articles from Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal:

Introduction: multicultural futures? Challenges and solutions/Avenirs multiculturels? Problemes et solutions.

Sep 22, 2006; Belkhodja, Chedly ... In 2006 Canada's official multiculturalism policy celebrated its thirty-fifth birthday. What better time to stop and reflect on where we are, where we would like to go, and how we expect to get there. This special issue of Canadian Ethnic Studies/Etudes ethniques au Canada does exactly ...

Provincial multiculturalism policies in Canada, 1974-2004: a content analysis.

Sep 22, 2006; Garcea, Joseph ... ABSTRACT/RESUME This article provides an analysis of the origins, evolution, provisions, and value of provincial multiculturalism policies during the past three decades as well as some prognostications on their continued evolution and future value. It suggests that although such ...

Demography, national myths, and political origins: perceiving official multiculturalism in Quebec.

Sep 22, 2006; Nugent, Amy ... ABSTRACT/RESUME Popular and academic discourses perceive Quebec's approach to pluralism, called interculturalism, as being very different from Canada's multiculturalism. Multiculturalism is seen as fragmenting; interculturalism as dialogical and unifying. Yet the hallmark ...

Social capital and ethnic harmony: evidence from the New Brunswick case.

Sep 22, 2006; Howe, Paul ... ABSTRACT/RESUME Recent research in the field of ethnic conflict studies has taken up the theme of social capital. Bridging social capital, the interaction of members of different ethnic groups in associations of various types, is credited with helping to maintain peaceful ethnic ...

Housing experiences of Black Africans in Toronto's rental market: a case study of Angolan and Mozambican immigrants.

Sep 22, 2006; Teixeira, Carlos ... ABSTRACT/RESUME This paper examines the housing experiences of two relatively recent African immigrant groups--the Angolans and the Mozambicans--in Toronto's rental market through an analysis of their settlement experiences, housing-search processes, and ultimate outcomes. The ...

Discontinuities of multiculturalism.

Sep 22, 2006; Levine-Rasky, Cynthia ... ABSTRACT/RESUME Lauded as a successful federal policy, multiculturalism is both simple in its public appeal and complex in its personal meanings for people. Liberal humanists celebrate a multiculturalism premised upon equality and respect for difference. Missing from such ...

Multiculturalisme cosmopolite et multiculturalisme pluraliste.

Sep 22, 2006; Ouattara, Ibrahim ... ABSTRACT/RESUME The discussions on the need to integrate minority groups, and particularly the debates on recoguizing special rights, are often tinged with ideological and philosophical considerations that discredit some demands to recognize specific group rights. That attitude ...

The events of September 11 in the French-Canadian Press.

Sep 22, 2006; Belkhodja, Chedly ... ABSTRACT/RESUME Following the tragic September 11 attacks, Canadians felt a need to understand the causes and consequences. In the face of such dramatic events, the media began to produce informative content in an effort to reassure a worried public. The first part of this study ...

Canada's 150th anniversary multiculturalism and diversity: vehicles for sustainable socio-economic progress/150e anniversaire du Canada: multiculturalisme et diversite: vehicules de progres socioeconomique durable.

Sep 22, 2006; Dib, Kamal ... ABSTRACT Using a multi-disciplinary approach, this article briefly discusses the socio-economic implications of Statistics Canada's demographic projections for Canada in 2017, followed by a presentation of three challenges facing the country over the next ten years: the ...