Multiculturalism and Social Cohesion Potentials and Challenges of Diversity /

• Main Authors: Reitz, Jeffrey G. (Author), Breton, Raymond (Author), Dion, Karen K. (Author), Dion, Kenneth L. (Author), Phan, Mai B. (Author), Banerjee, Rupa (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Edition: 1.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Population.; Anthropology.; Sociology.; Psychology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Psychology, general.; Population Economics.; Social Sciences, general.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Assessing Multiculturalism as a Behavioural Theory
• Ethnic Group Ties, Inter-group Threat, and Ethnic Self-identity
• Discrimination, Ethnic Group Belonging, and Well-Being
• Inequalities and Patterns of Social Attachments in Quebec and the Rest of Canada
• Racial Inequality and Social Integration
• Behavioural Precepts of Multiculturalism: Empirical Validity and Policy Implications.