Selling Diversity: Immigration, Multiculturalism, Employment Equity, and Globalization - Softcover

Abu-Laban, Yasmeen; Gabriel, Christina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551113988 ISBN 13: 9781551113982

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division, 2002

Synopsis

Since the 1990s, Canadian policy prescriptions for immigration, multiculturalism, and employment equity have equated globalization with global markets. This interpretation has transformed men and women of various ethnic backgrounds into trade-enhancing commodities who must justify their skills and talents in the language of business. This particular neo-liberal reading of globalization and public policy has resulted in a trend the authors call selling diversity.

Using gender, race/ethnicity, and class lenses...

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About the Author

Yasmeen Abu-Laban is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. The author, with Christina Gabriel, of Selling Diversity: Immigration, Multiculturalism, Employment Equity, and Globalization (University of Toronto Press, 2002), she has also written numerous articles on citizenship theory and the comparative dimensions of migration, nationalism, and identity politics.

Review

Selling Diversity begins where official rationales of multiculturalism stop short. Provocatively linking diversity to globalization, Abu-Laban and Gabriel provide a critical and very timely look at the unequal impact of Canadian immigration policies.

(Reg Whitaker, Professor Emeritus, York University and Adjunct Professor, University of Victoria)

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1551113988
• ISBN 13: 9781551113982
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 202