Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism
Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism

Author: Jennifer Elrick

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2021-12-02

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1487527802

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In the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration played an important yet unacknowledged role in transforming Canada’s immigration policy. In response to external economic and political pressures for change, high-level bureaucrats developed new admissions criteria gradually and experimentally while personally processing thousands of individual immigration cases per year. Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism shows how bureaucrats’ perceptions and judgements about the admissibility of individuals – in socioeconomic, racial, and moral terms – influenced the creation of formal admissions criteria for skilled workers and family immigrants that continue to shape immigration to Canada. A qualitative content analysis of archival documents, conducted through the theoretical lens of a cultural sociology of immigration policy, reveals that bureaucrats’ interpretations of immigration files generated selection criteria emphasizing not just economic utility, but also middle-class traits and values such as wealth accumulation, educational attainment, entrepreneurial spirit, resourcefulness, and a strong work ethic. By making "middle-class multiculturalism" a demographic reality and basis of nation-building in Canada, these state actors created a much-admired approach to managing racial diversity that has nevertheless generated significant social inequalities.

Making Multiculturalism
Making Multiculturalism

Author: Bethany Paige Bryson

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780804751643

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Bryson deconstructs the "canon wars" and uses English departments to demonstrate that social structure is the cornerstone of culture and the appropriate target for cultural policy.

Becoming a Multicultural Church
Becoming a Multicultural Church

Author: Laurene Beth Bowers

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2010-04-01

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1608992292

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In [ital] Becoming a Multicultural Church[ital], Bowers reflects upon and shows how churches can benefit from the experience of First Congregational Church of Randolph, Massachusetts [em dash] the church she pastors [em dash] once a historically "traditional" one social grouping church, but now a "multicultural" church and one of the numerically largest churches in Randolph. She offers practical strategies and explores the processes involved, in a conversational style that will make it an easy read for pastors.

Creating the Multicultural Organization
Creating the Multicultural Organization

Author: Taylor Cox, Jr.

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2001-06-18

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0787955841

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As the war for talent rages on, organizations are seeking proven methods for leveraging diversity as a resource. Creating the Multicultural Organization challenges today's organizations to stop "counting heads for the government" and begin creating effective strategies for a more positive approach to managing diversity. Using a model outlined in his earlie rworks, Taylor Cox Jr.--an associate professor at the University of Michigan Business School and president of his own consulting firm--shows readers the many practical and innovative ways that top organizations such as Alcoa effectively address diversity issues to secure and develop the talent that they need in order to succeed. A University of Michigan Business School Series Book

Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism
Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism

Author: Jennifer Elrick

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2022-01-10

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1487527780

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Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism re-interprets the historiography of the emergence of Canada's universal immigration policy for skilled workers and family immigrants in the 1950s and 1960s.

Making Space for Cultural Equality in Educational Leadership
Making Space for Cultural Equality in Educational Leadership

Author: Mathew Barnard

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-06-28

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 1040085121

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This book foregrounds postcolonial theory as a lens through which to explore the concept of ‘global heritage’ and argues that the meso-level spaces of institutional ethos and cultural pedagogy must take an active role in the pursuit of cultural equality. Through interviews and accounts of observational, empirical data, chapters draw attention to how the cultural capital of Global Majority students is institutionally positioned as a racialised and inferior cultural capital that is constantly required to ‘prove itself’ in the Western school. Ultimately, the book contributes to international discussion on decolonising education and the spaces within in order to enact change, further the field, and more precisely to recognise the importance of global heritage as vital to a transformative understanding of the West’s cultural identity within a globalised world. This book will appeal to scholars, researchers and post-graduate researchers in the fields of multicultural education, school leadership, management and administration, and education policy and politics more broadly. Those interested in social justice, ideas of cultural and racial equality, and the sociology of education more broadly will also benefit from the volume.

Building Cultural Nationalism in Malaysia
Building Cultural Nationalism in Malaysia

Author: Timothy P. Daniels

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-03-07

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1135931224

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This text contains an examination of processes of cultural citizenship in peninsular Malaysia. In particular, it focuses upon the diverse residents of the southwestern state of Melaka and their negotiations of belonging and incorporation in Malaysian society. Following political independence and the formation of the Federation of Malaysia in 1957 Malaysian citizenship was extended to most members of these diverse social identities. In this post-colonial context, Timothy P. Daniels examines how public celebrations and representations, religious festivals, and patterns of social relations are connected to processes of inclusion and exclusion.

Multicultural Play Therapy
Multicultural Play Therapy

Author: Dee C. Ray

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-04-28

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1000568385

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Multicultural Play Therapy fills a wide gap in the play therapy literature. Each chapter helps expand play therapists’ cultural awareness, humility, and competence so they can work more effectively with children of diverse cultures, races, and belief systems. The unique perspectives presented here provide play therapists and advanced students with concrete information on how to broach issues of culture in play therapy sessions, parent consultations, and in the play therapy field at large. The book includes chapters on multiple populations and addresses the myriad cultural background issues that emerge in play therapy, and the contributors include authors from multiple races, ethnicities, cultural worldviews, and orientations.

The Politics of Multiculturalism
The Politics of Multiculturalism

Author: A. Fleras

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-10-14

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 0230100120

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This book develops an account of 'inclusive multicultural governance' which is contrasted with assimilationist and separatist/differentialist approaches to the political management of and accommodation of multicultural diversity in liberal democracies.

Melting Pot, Multiculturalism, and Interculturalism
Melting Pot, Multiculturalism, and Interculturalism

Author: Alfredo Montalvo-Barbot

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-07-31

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1498591442

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This book examines multiculturalism, interculturalism, and the melting pot metaphor and explores how they emerged, evolved, and were implemented throughout American history. Alfredo Montalvo-Barbot analyzes how these ideologies have been legitimized, institutionalized, and challenged by activists, politicians, and intellectuals and studies how modern interculturalism offers a new model for bridging the cultural divide and for overcoming the limitations of previous state-sponsored multicultural policies and programs.