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
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Edition: 1.
• Subjects: Population.; Social sciences.; Anthropology.; Sociology.; Philosophy (General).; Social Sciences, general.; Psychology, general.; Population Economics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9958-8

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:

• Acknowledgements
• One: Assessing Multiculturalism as a Behavioral Theory: J.G. Reitz
• Two: Ethnic Group Ties, Inter-Group Threat, and Ethnic Self-Identity: K.K. Dion and M.B. Phan
• Three: Discrimination, Ethnic Group Belonging, and Well-Being: K.L. Dion, K.K. Dion, and R. Banerjee
• Four: Inequalities and Patterns of Social Attachments in Quebec and the Rest of Canada: M.B. Phan and R. Breton
• Five Racial Inequality and Social Integration: J.G. Reitz and R. Banerjee
• Six: Behavioural Precepts of Multiculturalism: Empirical Validity and Policy Implications: J.G. Reitz
• References.