Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal articles from June 2004

Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal archives from June 2004

"To become part of us": ethnicity, race, literacy and the Canadian Immigration Act of 1919.
June 22, 2004... ABSTRACT/RESUME Through an examination of government records, parliamentary debates, and newspaper articles, this article probes the tensions between competing visions of Canada's future that emerged in public policy debates about...

Neither here nor there: redirecting the homeward gaze in Nino Ricci's 'Lives of the Saints', 'In a Glass House' and Where She Has Gone.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... ABSTRACT/RESUME This paper argues that Nino Ricci's trilogy moves beyond the nostalgia for an originary home and expresses instead a nostalgia for origins in a new home--for origins in Canada rather than Italy. Ricci uses his trilogy to...

"Ethnic" dilemmas? Religion, diversity and multicultural planning in Montreal.
June 22, 2004... ABSTRACT/RESUME This paper examines the challenges ethno-religious diversity poses to urban planning practices and the role of local governments in managing diversity at the neighborhood level. In the province of Quebec, municipalities are...

Ambivalence dans a Representation de soi des Armeniens de la Diaspora ou la Difficulte de n'etre a la Fois ni d'ici, ni de la-Bas, Mais de l'Entre-deux.
June 22, 2004... RESUME/ABSTRACT L'elargissement des frontieres nationales a l'ensemble des membres de la diaspora, contraste avec la rigidite des Etats nations dont les flontieres territoriales delimitent precisement les contours de la nation. En...

Cambodian refugees in Ontario: religious identities, social cohesion and transnational linkages.
June 22, 2004... ABSTRACT/RESUME Ethnic, political and religious identifies among Cambodian refugees in Ontario are in large part constructed through connections with transnational communities and homeland linkages. Although local expressions of identity...

Bridging unsettled waters: ethnie and edentity in the Calgary Jewish community.
June 22, 2004... ABSTRACT/RESUME Modern Jewish identity in Canada is more than simply a religious or ethnic identification. This research note examines the perplexities in Jewish identity and suggests an alternative way of conceptualizing what it means to...

Gender, Race and Nation: a Global Perspective.(book)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Gender; Race and Nation: A Global Perspective. Vanaja Dhruvarajan and Jill Vickers, Eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. 359 pp. $29.95 sc; $65.00 he. This book represents a compilation of five authors that spans eleven...

Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium.(book)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium. Dirk Hoerder. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. 779 pp., 71 maps. $100 hc. Dirk Hoerder is a professor of history at Universitat Bremen, Germany, with a substantial record...

Immigrants Adapt, Countries Adopt ... Or Not: Fitting Into the Cultural Mosaic.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Immigrants Adapt, Countries Adopt... Or Not: Fitting Into the Cultural Mosaic. Cherif Rifaat. Montreal: New Canadian Press, 2004. 270 pp. $24.75 sc. Over the last decade, there has been a marked increase in immigration studies in Canada...

Politics and Poetics of Migration: Narratives of Iranian Diaspora Women.(book)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Politics and Poetics of Migration: Narratives of Iranian Diaspora Women. Parin Dossa. Toronto: Canadian Scholar's Press, Inc., 2004. 189 pp. $24.95 sc. The eminent philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre once remarked that human beings are...

Exiles and Islanders: the Irish Settlers of Prince Edward Island.(book)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Exiles and Islanders: The Irish Settlers of Prince Edward Island. Brendan O'Grady. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. 316 pp. $27.95 sc; $75.00 hc. Prince Edward Island's Irish community has long evaded historical...

Population Change in Canada.(book)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Population Change in Canada, 2nd ed. Roderic Beaujot and Don Kerr. Oxford University Press, 2004. 367 pp. $59.70 sc. Population Change in Canada is a comprehensive demographic study of Canada from the pre-Confederation period to the...

Canadian Immigration Policy for the 21st Century.(book)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Canadian Immigration Policy for the 21st Century. Charles M. Beach, Alan G. Green, and Jeffrey G. Reitz, Eds. Kingston: John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, Queen's University, 2004. 638 pp. $34.95 sc. Based on the...

Borrowed Identities.(book)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Borrowed Identities. Jennifer Kelly. New York: Peter Lang, 2004.231 pp. $29.95 US sc. Jennifer Kelly's Borrowed Identities demonstrates how Black identity formation in Canada is a cultural process that is refracted through race, class,...

The Sociology of Ethnicity.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Sociology of Ethnicity. Sinisa Malesevic. London: Sage Publications, 2004. 200 pp. $105.00 hc; $43.50 sc. Advanced undergraduates and postgraduates studying ethnicity and ethnic relations in sociology, politics, or cultural studies will...

L'identite culturelle.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... L'identite culturelle. Genevieve Vinsonneau. Paris: Armand Colin, 2002. 234 pp. 47.955 sc. Ce cinquieme livre de Genevieve Vinsonneau prolonge certaines reflexions amaorcees dans son essai precedent, > paru en 1999 dans la meme collection....

Encyclopedia of the Plains.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Encyclopedia of the Plains. David J. Wishart, Ed. Lincoln, NE: Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska, 2004. 940 pp. including index. $75.00 (US) hc. It is not often that one has an opportunity to rave about a new...

Northern Lights Against POPS. Combating Toxic Threats in the Arctic.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Northern Lights Against POPS. Combating Toxic Threats in the Arctic. David Leonard Downie and Terry Fenge, Eds. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. 347 pp. $29.95 sc. Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP) is an...

Canada's Religions: An Historical Introduction.(book)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Canada's Religions: An Historical Introduction. Robert Choquette. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2004. 464 pp., including notes and index. $29.95 sc; $65.00 hc. This book may be of some interests to readers of this journal, especially...

The Lands Within Me. Expressions by Canadian Artists of Arab Origins.(book)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Lands Within Me. Expressions by Canadian Artists of Arab Origins. Aida Kaouk. Gatincau, QC: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2003. 139 pp. $45.00 sc. This book is the publication attached to the 2001 Canadian Museum of Civilization...

Tortillas and Tomatoes: Transmigrant Mexican Harvesters in Canada.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Tortillas and Tomatoes: Transmigrant Mexican Harvesters in Canada. Tanya Basok. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. 168 pp. $75.00 hc; $27.95 sc. Cet ouvrage expose les resultats d'une recherche menee aupres de...

From Migrants to Citizens. Greek Migration in Australia and Canada.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... From Migrants to Citizens. Greek Migration in Australia and Canada. Anatasios M. Tamis and Efrosini Gavaki. Melbourne: La Trobe University, 2002.412 pp. $40.00 sc. "Contemporary Greek expatriation comprises Hellenes and their descendants...

Heart of a Stranger.(book)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Heart of a Stranger. Margaret Laurence, Ed. Nora Foster Stovel. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2003. xxxiii + 236 pp. $29.95 sc. This volume reprints essays written by Margaret Laurence between 1964 and 1975 and first published as a...

Where I Come From.(book)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Where I Come From. Vijay Agnew. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003. 299 pp. $24.95 sc; Adjacencies: Minority Writing in Canada. Lianne Moyes, Licia Canton, and Domenic Beneventi, Eds. Toronto: Guernica, 2004. 256 pp. $20.00...

Contemporary Jewish Writing in Canada. An Anthology.(book)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Contemporary Jewish Writing in Canada. An Anthology. Michael Greenstein, Ed. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. 233 pp. $60.00 US; 45.95 [pounds sterling] UK. My immediate response to this book was outrage. It does not...

What's a Black Critic to Do? Interviews, Profiles and Reviews of Black Writers.(book)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... What's a Black Critic to Do? Interviews, Profiles and Reviews of Black Writers. Donna Bailey Nurse. Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2003. 208 pp. $21.95 sc. What's A Black Critic to Do? offers a compilation of Donna Bailey Nurse's interviews,...

Bobbie Rosenfeld: the Olympian Who Could Do Everything.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything. Anne Dublin. Toronto: Second Story, 2004. 148 pp. $14.95 sc; I Came as a Stranger: The Underground Railroad. Bryan Prince. Toronto: Tundra, 2004. 160 pp. $22.99 sc; The Kids Book of Black...