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Cookie akzeptierenJeffrey G. Reitz / Raymond Breton / Karen Kisiel Dion / Kenneth L. Dion
Multiculturalism and Social Cohesion
- Springer Netherlands
- 2010
- Taschenbuch
- 204 Seiten
- ISBN 9789048182282
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 immigration. Advocates praise multiculturalism for its emphasis on special recognition for cultural minorities as facilitating their social integration, while opponents charge that multiculturalism threatens social cohesion by encouraging social isolation. Multiculturalism is thus rooted in a theory of human behaviour, and this book examines the empirical validity of some of its basic propositions, focusing on Canada as the country for which the most enthusiastic claims
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