A White Man's Province
British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants 1858-1914
A revealing historical account of the complex racism in early British Columbia and the lives and contributions made to the province by its Chinese and Japanese residents.
Ethnic Groups and Marital Choices
Ethnic History and Marital Assimilation, in Canada 1871 and 1971
This first detailed comparative study of ethno-religious intermarriage provides the background for understanding the dynamics of intermarriage in a culturally pluralistic society like Canada.
Hungarian Rhapsodies
Essays on Ethnicity, Identity, and Culture
From an examination of photographer Andre Kertesz to a visit to a Hungarian-American church in Cleveland, Richard Teleky reconciles contemporary identity with a heritage from another country.
Walking in Indian Moccasins
The Native Policies of Tommy Douglas and the CCF
This landmark study examines the Tommy Douglas's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government - the first socialist government in North America - and the development of policies aimed at Indian and Metis people in the post-war period.
The Oriental Question
Consolidating a White Man's Province, 1914-41
Patricia E. Roy continues her study into why British Columbians were historically so opposed to Asian immigration.
Securing Borders
Detention and Deportation in Canada
A close look at the laws, policies, and practices of detention and deportation in Canada since the Second World War.
Multicultural Nationalism
Civilizing Difference, Constituting Community
Canada's national question is self-defeating: attempts to constitute a Canadian political community generate polarizing and depoliticizing deliberations.
Cross-Cultural Caring, 2nd ed.
A Handbook for Health Professionals
This new edition provides up-to-date statistics and fresh analysis of changing trends in immigration, describes ethno-cultural community, discussing such issues as childbirth, mental illness, dental care, hospitalization, and death, as well as home country culture, common reasons for emigrating, and challenges in adjusting to a new culture.
Law and Citizenship
The essays this volume provide a framework for analyzing citizenship in an increasingly globalized world by addressing a number of fundamental questions.
A History of Migration from Germany to Canada, 1850-1939
Considers why Germans left their home country, why they chose to settle in Canada, who assisted their passage, and how they crossed the ocean to their new home, as well as how the Canadian government perceived and solicited them as immigrants.
Race and the City
Chinese Canadian and Chinese American Political Mobilization
Presents an elegant analysis of the mechanisms of political mobilization under systemic racism that draws on case studies, interviews, and a detailed understanding of the racialized legal and sociocultural histories of the United States and Canada.
Diversity and Equality
The Changing Framework of Freedom in Canada
Critically examines the challenge of protecting rights in diverse societies.
Transnational Identities and Practices in Canada
This is the first collection in Canada to provide a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of transnationalism.
Voices Rising
Asian Canadian Cultural Activism
Examines Asian Canadian political and cultural activism around community building, identity making, racial equity, and social justice.
Multiculturalism and the Foundations of Meaningful Life
Reconciling Automony, Identity, and Community
Theories of liberal multiculturalism seek to reconcile cultural rights with universal liberal principles. Some focus on individual autonomy; others emphasize communal identity. Andrew Robinson argues that liberal multiculturalism can be justified without privileging either ...
The Triumph of Citizenship
The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67
This final volume to Patricia E. Roy's pivotal trilogy exploring racial discrimination against Chinese- and Japanese-Canadians examines the removal of all Japanese-Canadians from the BC coast during WWII, while Chinese-Canadians gained the right to vote in 1947.
Organizing the Transnational
Labour, Politics, and Social Change
This collection articulates a multi-level cultural politics of transnationalism to frame contemporary analyses of immigration and diasporas.
Guarding the Gates
The Canadian Labour Movement and Immigration, 1872-1934
A pioneering study of Canadian labour leaders’ approach to immigration from the 1870s to the Great Depression.
Multiculturalism and the Canadian Constitution
The essays illustrate how deeply multiculturalism is woven into the fabric of the Canadian constitution and the everyday lives of Canadians.
Electing a Diverse Canada
The Representation of Immigrants, Minorities, and Women
Covering eleven cities as well as Canada’s Parliament, this book presents the most extensive analysis to date of the electoral representation of immigrants, minorities, and women in Canada.
Identity/Difference Politics
How Difference Is Produced, and Why It Matters
Identity/Difference Politics offers a new direction for the study of identity/difference, one that moves beyond liberal multiculturalism’s preoccupation with culture.
Transnational Yearnings
Tourism, Migration, and the Diasporic City
By exploring circuits of migration and personal exchange between Toronto and Jamaica, this book maps a new way to look at postcolonial contact zones and transnational migration.
Dreaming in Canadian
South Asian Youth, Bollywood, and Belonging
Dreaming in Canadian explores the connections between the media and identity formation among young Canadians of South Asian origin.
Moving Mountains
Ethnicity and Livelihoods in Highland China, Vietnam, and Laos
This collection argues that minorities in the Southeast Asian Massif are not powerless in the face of economic and political change in the region – they are drawing on ethnicity and culture to indigenize modernity and maintain their livelihoods.
The Way of the Bachelor
Early Chinese Settlement in Manitoba
This book documents the religious beliefs and cultural practices that helped sustain and lend meaning to Chinese bachelors in smaller towns and cities of Manitoba.
Orienting Canada
Race, Empire, and the Transpacific
A hard-hitting reconsideration of Canadian foreign policy, Orienting Canada meticulously documents the dynamics of race and empire in the Transpacific from the 1907 race riots to Canada’s early involvement in Vietnam.
Nooksack Place Names
Geography, Culture, and Language
The first comprehensive study of Nooksack place names in Washington State and southern British Columbia, based on historical records and field trips with elders.
Rethinking the Great White North
Race, Nature, and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness in Canada
Rethinking the Great White North explores the troubling side of the images of whiteness and wilderness that are so central to Canadian national identity.
The Perils of Identity
Group Rights and the Politics of Intragroup Difference
Caroline Dick asks how group identity claims, especially in the courts, obscure significant intragroup differences.
Creative Subversions
Whiteness, Indigeneity, and the National Imaginary
This book explores how whiteness and Indigeneity are articulated through commonplace symbols of Canadian identity and how the work of contemporary artists is subverting these nostalgic accounts of the past.
Islam in the Hinterlands
Muslim Cultural Politics in Canada
A collection of empirical studies and critical essays, Islam in the Hinterlands examines how politics, media, and education shape Muslim life in Canada.
Becoming Multicultural
Immigration and the Politics of Membership in Canada and Germany
This book demonstrates how global human rights norms intersected with domestic political identities and institutions to transform Canada and Germany into diverse multicultural societies in the second half of the twentieth century.
Reasonable Accommodation
Managing Religious Diversity
Reasonable Accommodation is a collection of essays examining the meaning of reasonable accommodation of religious diversity through law and public discourse in Canada and abroad.
Canadian Liberalism and the Politics of Border Control, 1867-1967
This book chronicles the first century of Canadian border control, revealing how policies have been influenced by changing perceptions of the rights of non-citizens.
Photography, Memory, and Refugee Identity
The Voyage of the SS Walnut, 1948
A nuanced look at the relationship between memory and photography as reflected in the experiences of Estonian refugees en route to Canada aboard the SS Walnut in 1948.
Pinay on the Prairies
Filipino Women and Transnational Identities
An investigation into the experiences of Filipino women in Canada’s Prairie provinces, which reveals much about their understanding of transnational identities, feminism, migration, diaspora, and the rubric of multiculturalism.
Mission Invisible
Race, Religion, and News at the Dawn of the 9/11 Era
By unravelling the discourse and rhetoric of news coverage in Canada at the dawn of the 9/11 era, this book not only uncovers racist representations of Muslim communities but also reveals the discursive processes that rendered this racism invisible.
Segmented Cities?
How Urban Contexts Shape Ethnic and Nationalist Politics
This book examines how urbanization and pluralization are shaping the world’s cities and what can be done to encourage integration and minimize ethnic and nationalist tensions.
According to Baba
A Collaborative Oral History of Sudbury’s Ukrainian Community
This book employs new and critical approaches to oral history to write an insightful and deeply personal history of Sudbury’s Ukrainian community between 1901 and 1939.
Recognition versus Self-Determination
Dilemmas of Emancipatory Politics
This book re-evaluates the role of recognition in analyzing relations between groups in plural societies, the position of indigenous peoples in settler societies, and the principle of the self-determination of peoples.
The Voyage of the Komagata Maru
The Sikh Challenge to Canada's Colour Bar, Expanded and Fully Revised Edition
A sweeping revision and reconsideration of the Komagata Maru incident as a defining moment in Canadian, British Empire, and Indian history.
Oral History at the Crossroads
Sharing Life Stories of Survival and Displacement
Drawing on a collaborative research project, this book provides an alternative model for how oral and public histories should be recorded and curated.
The Muslim Question in Canada
A Story of Segmented Integration
This book offers a fresh account of the socio-economic experiences of Muslims in Canada, drawing on the newest data sources available.
Cultivating Connections
The Making of Chinese Prairie Canada
The voices of Chinese immigrants who settled in the pre-1950s Canadian prairies come alive in this extraordinary record of migration, settlement, and community life.
Diasporic Chineseness after the Rise of China
Communities and Cultural Production
Leading international scholars examine the production of culture during China’s rise to global superpower in the last quarter of a century.
African Canadians in Union Blue
Volunteering for the Cause in the Civil War
A landmark account of the background, motivations, and experiences of African Canadian volunteers in America’s Civil War.
Mixed Race Amnesia
Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality
Mixed Race Amnesia explores how contemporary “progressive” attitudes toward multiraciality actually serve to obscure complex diasporic family histories while reinforcing colonialism.
Immigration Canada
Evolving Realities and Emerging Challenges in a Postnational World
An essential primer for readers interested in tracing the development and dynamics of Canada’s immigration program and understanding the impact of recent federal reforms on Canadian society.