The Politics of Multiculturalism

Fleras, Augie

doi:10.1057/9780230100121

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“…Of particular interest is the Netherlands, which was ranked rather high in 2000, but dropped to a low score in 2010. This earlier high position was the result of longstanding "pillarization" policies (Fleras, 2009), while the drop may reflect recent assertions that multiculturalism has failed in the Netherlands (Vertovec & Wessendorf, 2010).…”

Section: Multiculturalism Policies Internationallymentioning

confidence: 98%

Comparative analysis of Canadian multiculturalism policy and the multiculturalism policies of other countries

Berry¹

2016

Psych. Rus.

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Multiculturalism is an increasingly common characteristic of contemporary societies. In culturally diverse social contexts, virtually every person experiences intercultural contact on a daily basis. It is essential to understand that there must be both cultural diversity and equity in social participation for true multiculturalism to exist in these settings. Beyond its core definition, it is clear that multiculturalism is a complex concept encompassing many dimensions and meanings. First, the term is understood to describe a demographic fact, indicating the existence of cultural diversity in a society. Second, multiculturalism refers to the policies and programs that are in place to manage intercultural relations and acculturation. Third, multiculturalism refers to psychological phenomena, including individual attitudes and ideologies that accept or reject the demographic, civic and policy features of multiculturalism. This chapter considers Canadian multiculturalism policy, examining how the multiple meanings of multiculturalism vary around the world. Within this framework, I highlight the psychological processes and outcomes of multiculturalism, particularly in connection with acculturation, adaptation and intercultural relations and consider whether these processes and outcomes differ for dominant and non-dominant groups. I suggest some ways in which to enhance the positive outcomes of intercultural contact and the resultant acculturation outcomes. Finally, this chapter sets the stage for the presentation of the other chapters in this volume. It elaborates three

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Section: Multiculturalism Policies Internationallymentioning

confidence: 98%

Comparative analysis of Canadian multiculturalism policy and the multiculturalism policies of other countries

Berry¹

2016

Psych. Rus.

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“…In 2007, for example, the Civic Integration Act came into force. All prospective permanent migrants from lower-income countries became required to take the language test and the social orientation test in their country of origin, and to pass it as a condition for permission to enter and reside in the Netherlands (Fleras 2009). Han Entzinger (2014) provides one analysis of this history, arguing that the policy shifts have been caused not by responses to new data but rather by a growing popular anxiety over a changing society.…”

Section: The Netherlands Immigration Context and Debatesmentioning

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Citizens and Citizenship

Rem¹,

Gasper²

2018

The International Journal of Social Quality

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The past generation has seen a switch to restrictive policies and language in the governance of migrants living in the Netherlands. Beginning in 2010, a new government with right-wing populist backing went further, declaring the centrality of proposed characteristic historic Dutch values. In this article, we investigate a key policy document to characterize and understand this policy change. Discourse analysis as an exploration of language choices, including use of ideas from rhetoric, helps us apply and test ideas from governmentality studies of migration and from discourse studies as social theorizing. We trace the chosen problem formulation; the delineation, naming, and predication of population categories; the understanding of citizenship, community, and integration; and the overall rhetoric, including chosen metaphors and nuancing of emphases, that links the elements into a meaning-rich world picture. A “neoliberal communitarian” conception of citizenship has emerged that could unfortunately subject many immigrants to marginalization and exclusion.

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“…It is critical to acknowledge -but impossible to properly address in this article -the complex confluence of ideological aversion mediated by the idea of 'multiculturalism' over the last decade or so (see Fleras 2009, Lentin & Titley 2011. Not only has the defence of identity been augmented by the populist right's strategic adoption of gender, sexuality and liberal freedoms, what Triadafilopoulos terms 'Schmittian liberalism' (2011) substantively articulates a 'sharply antagonistic discourse designating putatively clear and inviolable boundaries of liberal-democratic conduct' among politicians, journalists, academics and 'aspirant public intellectuals' (2011).…”

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They Called a War, and Someone Came: <i>The communicative politics of Breivik’s ideoscape</i>

Titley

2013

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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This article examines the intensely mediated debate on the relationship between ideological affinity and political implication that followed the documenting of the 'citational ecology' of Breivik's 2083 compendium. Focusing on the recurring trope of war in counter-jihad blog posts and mainstream media comment, it argues that the invocation of 'war' is important beyond limiting debates on incitement and 'moral responsibility'. Following Butler (2009), it examines this 'frame of war' and its poetics as the condition of counter-jihad networks and as the licence for mainstream polemics on the 'failed experiment' of multiculturalism.

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The Politics of Multiculturalism

Cited by 55 publications

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Comparative analysis of Canadian multiculturalism policy and the multiculturalism policies of other countries

Comparative analysis of Canadian multiculturalism policy and the multiculturalism policies of other countries

Citizens and Citizenship

They Called a War, and Someone Came: <i>The communicative politics of Breivik’s ideoscape</i>

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