The Invisible Community: Being South Asian in Quebec (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History, 50) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0228005426 ISBN 13: 9780228005421

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021

Synopsis

The South Asian population in Canada, encompassing diverse national, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, has in recent years become the largest visible minority in the country. As this community grows, it encounters challenges in settlement, integration, and development.

Accounting for only 1 per cent of the population in Quebec, the South Asian community has received limited attention in comparison with other minority groups. The Invisible Community uses recent data from a variety of fields to explore who these immigrants are and what they and their families require to become members of an inclusive society. Experts from Canadian and international universities and governmental and community agencies describe how South Asian immigrants experience life in French-speaking Canada. They look at how members of the community integrate into the job market, how they manage socially and emotionally, how their religious values are affected, and how their children adapt to French-speaking and English-speaking schools.

The Invisible Community shares lived experiences of different subgroups of the South Asian population in Quebec in order to better understand wider social, political, and educational contexts of immigration in Canada.

About this title

About the Authors

Mahsa Bakhshaei is a senior research scientist with the Learning Sciences Research Team at Digital Promise.

Marie Mc Andrew is emeritus professor in the Faculty of education at the Université de Montréal.

Ratna Ghosh is distinguished professor in the Faculty of Education at McGill University.

Priti Singh is chairperson and associate professor at the Centre for Canadian, United States, and Latin American Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University.

From the Back Cover

Series One: Donald Harman Akenson, Editor
Series Two: John Zucchi, Edito

This series was launched in 1987 as a response to the growing field of ethnic and immigration history in Canada in the generation following the rise of multiculturalism. Although the original intent was to publish historical works on ethnicity in Canada, the international nature of ethnic studies has led to the series becoming truly international in its scope and authorship.

The series has therefore gone beyond Canada's borders to examine cultural history in Guyana, racial conflict in New Zealand, West Indian Blacks in Costa Rica, Syrian refugees in Sweden, and Italians in Paris and London. Books in the series have been written mainly from a historical perspective but works by specialists in geography, folklore, sociology, literature, material culture, and Indigenous studies have also been included. We firmly believe that successful and sophisticated studies in all of these fields deserve to be called to the attention of the scholarly community and all those with an interest in ethnicity, immigration, and integration.

With an extensive list of published titles, many of them award-winning, McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History demonstrates what future volumes in the series should be: original, meticulous but accessible scholarly investigations in an exciting field.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0228005426
• ISBN 13: 9780228005421
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Bakhshaei Mahsa, Andrew Marie Mc, Ghosh Ratna, Singh Priti