Xenoracism and the Crisis of Multiculturalism: Is Canada Exempt?
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John Simon McCoy
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University of Alberta (Canada)
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014
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317
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-64168-3
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Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Political Science
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University of Alberta (Canada)
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2014
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"Multiculturalism" is in crisis, or so we are told by some of the world's most powerful political leaders. According to the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, multiculturalism has "failed utterly"; for the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, the "doctrine of state multiculturalism" has not only failed as public policy but has also opened a space in which extremism can flourish among minority communities. Alana Lentin & Gavin Titley (2011) have described this narrative as the "crisis of multiculturalism"; Paul Ryan (2010) as "multicultiphobia"; Ben Pitcher (2009), Geoffrey Levey and Tariq Modood (2009) have carried out similar studies. According to Liz Fekete (2009) and her associate Ambalavaner Sivanandan of the London based Institute of Race Relations, such narratives are "shot through" with institutionalized racism - or, as they have conceptualized it - xenoracism. It is a form of racism situated in what is presented publically as concerns over public security and the social threat of non-integrated minorities. In this ideology newcomers and even long-standing residents are portrayed as "the enemy within", under the re-imagined "monocultural" state.
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Political science
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Social sciences;Integration;Multiculturalism;Security;Xenoracism