Selling Diversity: Immigration, Multiculturalism, Employment Equity & Globalization - Couverture souple

Abu-Laban, Yasmeen; Gabriel, Christina

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1551113988 ISBN 13 : 9781551113982

Editeur : Broadview Press, 2002

Synopsis

Since the 1990s, Canadian policy prescriptions for immigration, multiculturalism, and employment equity have equated globalization with global markets. This interpretation has transformed men and women of various ethnic backgrounds into trade-enhancing commodities who must justify their skills and talents in the language of business. This particular neo-liberal reading of globalization and public policy has resulted in a trend the authors call selling diversity.

Using gender, race/ethnicity, and class lenses to frame their analysis, the authors review Canadian immigration, multiculturalism, and employment equity policies, including their different historical origins, to illustrate how a preference for selling diversity has emerged in the last decade. In the process they suggest that a commitment to enhance justice in a diverse society and world has been muted. Yet, neo-liberalism is not the only or inevitable option in this era of globalization, and Canadians are engaging in transnational struggles for rights and equality and thereby increasing the interconnectedness between peoples across the globe. Consequently, the emphasis on selling diversity might be challenged.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Yasmeen Abu-Laban is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. The author, with Christina Gabriel, of Selling Diversity: Immigration, Multiculturalism, Employment Equity, and Globalization (University of Toronto Press, 2002), she has also written numerous articles on citizenship theory and the comparative dimensions of migration, nationalism, and identity politics.

Christina Gabriel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's Studies at Carleton.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Broadview Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1551113988
• ISBN 13: 9781551113982
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 202
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible