Beyond Binaries and Polarization? - Rethinking Pluralist Inclusion in Immigrant Nations

This book explores what lies between the statuses of insider and outsider in immigrant nations. It highlights the often-overlooked conditionality and temporality of immigrant inclusion, the messiness of policies aimed at ethnic diversity, and the uneven distribution of attitudes among members of minority groups.

List of contents

Foreword Introduction: Beyond Binaries and Polarization? Rethinking Pluralist Inclusion in Immigrant Nations 1. Conservatism and the Re-Communitarianization of Citizenship in Canada 2. Staggered Inclusion: Between Temporary and Permanent Immigration Status in Quebec, Canada 3. The Paradox of Pluralism: Municipal Integration Policy in Québec 4. A Diverse Minority of Intolerance: Ethnic Relations in a Multicultural Society 5. Hailing in the Face of Covid-19: On the Uses and Abuses of Heroism Afterword: The Value of Normative Models for Understanding Pluralism

About the author

Elke Winter is Professor of Sociology at the bilingual University of Ottawa/Université d'Ottawa. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists and the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, she recently served as Harvard University's William Lyon Mackenzie King Chair for Canadian Studies.

Product details

• Assisted by: Elke Winter (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.06.2025
• EAN: 9781041024736
• ISBN: 978-1-041-02473-6
• No. of pages: 139
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Ethnic Studies, Canada, Sociology, Popular Culture, Law, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, HISTORY / Canada / General, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Migration, immigration & emigration, Regional Studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, Regional / International studies, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies