131 SEVEN in defence of multiculturalism? Gareth Jenkins The Professional Capabilities Framework (PCF) domain 8 requires that social workers are aware of changing social contexts. Many social workers writing about anti-racist practice in the 1980s would have followed Sivanandan’s (1982) critique of local authority ‘multiculturalism’. Sivanandan’s case was that too often policies of multiculturalism were reduced to a celebration of ‘steel-bands, samosas and saris’ while institutional and structural racism was ignored. However, from the perspective of 2013
81 6 Diversity Research After Mobility: Multiculturalism In today’s global politics of identity and difference, the migration condition is symptomatically central for [Stuart] Hall, for it speaks through a ‘double syntax’ in which difference may be driven toward the all-or-nothing danger of ethnic absolutism—or it may … enable us to learn something from diasporic survival about how to live with others and otherness. Kobena Mercer, introduction to Stuart Hall (1994/2017), The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity and Nation, pp 10–11 Contextualizing migration
The empirical focus of this book is on the twenty year struggle by parents and members of the Black community in Toronto to introduce an Africentric Alternative School (AAS) with Black-focused curricula.
It brings together a seemingly disparate series of events that emerged from equity and multicultural narratives about the establishment of the school – violence, anti-racism and race-based statistics, policy entrepreneurs, and the re-birth of alternative schools in Toronto - to illustrate how these events ostensibly functioned through neoliberal choice mechanisms and practices.
Gulson and Webb show how school choice can represent and manifest the hopes and fears, contestations and settlements of contemporary racial biopolitics of education in multicultural cities.
77 THREE Gendered citizenship: migration and multiculturalism Introduction Globalisation, European integration and migration pose new challenges for understanding citizenship from a transnational perspective. Since the 1990s the increase in migrants and refugees has sparked new political debates about multiculturalism and multicultural policies across Europe, debates which have, increasingly after 9/11, been coloured by Islamophobia.1 These debates follow both similar and diverging paths in different European countries, all of which carry different legacies of
125 Families, Relationships and Societies • vol 6 • no 1 • 125–40 • ©Policy Press • 2017 • #FRS ISSN 2046 7435 • ISSN 2046 7466 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204674315X14479283205364 Accepted for publication 13 October 2015 • First published online 24 November 2015 Multiculturalism in interethnic intimate relationships Carrie Yodanis,1 carrie.yodanis@ubc.ca Sean Lauer, sean.lauer@ubc.ca University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Interethnic intimate relationships are generally considered to be an indicator of assimilation processes, or the weakening of
The making of multicultural legal reasoning and analytic paradigms As discussed in the previous chapters, legal rhetoric operates to inculcate White cultural hegemony into our reasoning and analytic processes for resolving legal problems—how we “do” law. It makes its racialized tools normative and renders them neutral through its failure to acknowledge their origins in Western epistemologies and ontologies that idolize and protect imperialism, capitalism, White supremacy, and patriarchy. The lens through which legal rhetoric views the landscape of legal
53 THREE Multiculturalism, social justice and the welfare state Will Kymlicka introduction One of the major challenges facing Western societies concerns increasing ethnocultural diversity. There are three diversity-related trends that are transforming Western societies: • the increasing ethnic and racial heterogeneity of the population; • the increasing politicisation of ethnocultural identities, and the rise of ‘identity politics’; and • partly in response to the first two trends, the increasing adoption of ‘multiculturalism’ policies to accommodate
311 NINETEEN Without borders: community development, biculturalism and multiculturalism Angela Summersgill E ngā mana, e ngā reo e ngā karangatanga maha, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa. (All authorities, all voices, all the many alliances and affiliations, greetings) Traditional formal welcome in Te Reo Māori Today, Aotearoa1/New Zealand is considered one of the most multicultural countries on the planet. The 2013 census revealed that ‘New Zealand has more ethnicities than there are countries in the world. In total, 213 ethnic groups were
117 FIVE A reactionary voice: nuanced views on multiculturalism Introduction This will be the first of two chapters based on research conducted in three different cities in England. There are two substantive points that have been made so far in this book: first, there has been a top- down framing of the white working class as being antagonistic to multiculturalism. (Haylett, 2001; Sveinsson, 2009; Rhodes, 2010; Beider, 2014); and, second, the voice of the white working class has not been directly heard, being mediated instead through politicians and the
231 ELEVEN the limits of compromise? Social justice, ‘race’ and multiculturalism Gary Craig The idea of multiculturalism is now widely under attack. A former UK Home Secretary argues that Muslim women should be unveiled when consulting him as an MP as he wishes to see their face. In France, the wearing of the veil and other religious symbols has been forbidden at public schools; and in Canada, the Province of Ontario, having proposed a degree of autonomy to Muslims in the exercise of sharia law, have backtracked on that position under political pressure
