Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal articles from June 2005

Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal archives from June 2005

Ethnicity: space and place.(Canadian Ethnic Studies Association's seventeenth biennial conference )
June 22, 2005... The Canadian Ethnic Studies Association (CESA) held its seventeenth biennial conference October 2-5, 2003 at the Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta. The theme of the conference, Ethnicity." Space and Place, provided a stimulating framework for...

Language effects on ethnic identity in Canada.
June 22, 2005... ABSTRACT/RESUME Language is known to have an effect on ethnic identity in that language retention of a mother tongue or home language acts as a stronger connector to the ethnic community for such persons as compared to those who do not...

You are where you eat: ethnicity, food and cross-cultural spaces.
June 22, 2005... ABSTRACT/RESUME Food has long been regarded as a useful ethnic marker, a way of defining who we are. The connection of food to ethnic identity, however, is far from self-evident. This paper examines a number of Canadian literary works...

Leisure, place, and diversity: the experiences of ethnic minority youth.
June 22, 2005... ABSTRACT/RESUME This paper explains the social integration experiences of a group of second-generation Canadian youths who identify primarily with the cultures of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. This group of young Canadians connected...

The lives of recent Chinese immigrant children in Canadian society: values, aspirations, and social experiences.
June 22, 2005... ABSTRACT/RESUME This study investigated Chinese children whose families recently immigrated to Canada. The study examined these children's lives with respect to their personal values, their future aspirations, and their social experiences....

Spatial residential patterns and socio-economic integration of Filipinos in Canada.
June 22, 2005... ABSTRACT/RESUME Using 2001 Census data, this study examines the residential segregation of Filipinos in Canada's six metropolitan areas, where 87 percent of them live. Filipinos, like other visible minorities, are more concentrated than...

Ethnicity and social capital in Canada.
June 22, 2005... ABSTRACT/RESUME A review of recent research suggests that ethnic heterogeneity negatively influences attitudes and behaviours necessary for community cohesion. Using data drawn from the 2000 Equality Security Community Survey, we test the...

From Vietnam to Calgary.
June 22, 2005... It's March of 1979; the Vietnam War ended four years ago. The instability that many Vietnamese are facing, coupled with the tough economic situation, has left my family no choice but to leave and hope to start a new and better life elsewhere....

Humanitarianism, Identity and Nation: Migration Laws in Canada and Australia.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Humanitarianism, identity and nation: Migration laws in Canada and Australia. Catherine Dauvergne. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. 256 pp. $75.00 hc; $29.95 sc. Catherine Dauvergne articulates the relationship of migration laws and national...

Contestation transnationale, diversite et citoyennete dans l'espace quebecois.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Contestation transnationale, diversite et citoyennete dans l'espace quebecois. Micheline Labelle, Francois Rocher, et Anne-Marie Field, dirs. Quebec : Presses de l'Universite du Quebec, 2004. 223 pp. $27.00 sc. Cet ouvrage consiste en...

Exclusions/inclusions: Deplacements economico-symboliques et perspectives americaines/Economic and symbolic displacements in the Americas.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Exclusions/inclusions: Deplacements economico-symboliques et perspectives americaines/Economic and symbolic displacements in the Americas. Daniel Castillo Durante, avec Amy D. Colin et Patrick Imbert (Sous la direction de). Ottawa/New York:...

Repression and Resistance: Canadian Human Rights Activists, 1930-1960.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Repression and resistance: Canadian human rights activists 1930-1960. Ross Lambertson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 523 pp. $75.00 hc. When asked about the foundation of contemporary human rights in Canada, many will recall...

Weaving Relationships: Canada-Guatemala Solidarity.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Weaving relationships: Canada-Guatemala solidarity. Kathryn Anderson. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003. 322 pp. $32.95 sc. The title of this book may suggest that it provides a sweeping review of solidarity initiatives...

Contemporary Antisemitism: Canada and the World.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Contemporary antisemitism: Canada and the world. Derek J. Penslar, Michael R. Marrus, and Janice G. Stein, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 122 pp. $45 hc. The essays collected in this short volume address a paradox that...

Reconfiguring Aboriginal-state Relations.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Reconfiguring Aboriginal-state relations. Michael Murphy, ed. Kingston: Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University, 2005.412 pp. $39.95 sc; $75.00 hc. Each year the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations holds a...

Napachie Pootoogook.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Napachie Pootoogook. Leslie Boyd Ryan and Darlene Coward Wight. Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2004. 128 pp. $21.95 sc. The curators of a recent exhibition of Napachie Pootoogook's final drawings might have been forgiven if they had second...

Paddling to Where I Stand: Agnes Alfred, Qwiqwasutinuxw Noblewoman.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Paddling to where I stand. Agnes Alfred, Qwiqwasutinuxw Noblewoman. Ed. and Intro. Martine J. Reid. Transl. Daisy Sewid-Smith. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004. 325 pp. $85.00 hc; $29.95 sc. Paddling to where I stand is a thorough study of Agnes...

Telling Our Stories: Omushkego Legends and Histories from Hudson Bay.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Telling our stories: Omushkego legends and histories from Hudson Bay. Louis Bird; Jennifer S.H. Brown, Paul W. DePasquale, and Mark F. Ruml, eds. Toronto: Broadview, 2005. 269 pp. sc. $27.95 CAD/$24.95 US. It was only a few years ago that...

Blockades and Resistance: Studies in Actions of Peace and the Temagami Blockades of 1988-89.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Blockades and resistance: Studies in actions of peace and the Temagami blockades of 1988-89. Bruce W. Hodgins, Ute Lischke, and David T. McNab, eds. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003. 256 pp. $55.00 hc. In 1988 and 1989, the...

Imagining Difference: Legend, Curse and Spectacle in a Canadian Mining Town.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Imagining difference. Legend, curse, and spectacle in a Canadian mining town. Leslie A. Robertson. Toronto/Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004. xlv, 300 pp, $85.00 hc; 29.95 sc. In the tight-knit community of Fernie, the residents will tell you:...

Britannia's Children: Migration from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales since 1600.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Britannia's children: Migration from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales since 1600. Eric Richards. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 320 pp. US$29.95 hc; Irish migrants to the Canadas: A new approach, 2nd ed. Bruce Elliott. Montreal/Kingston:...

Karelian exodus: Finnish communities in North America and Soviet Karelia during the depression era.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Karelian exodus: Finnish communities in North America and Soviet Karelia during the depression era. Ronald Harpelle, Varpu Lindstrom, and Alexis E. Pogorelskin, eds. Beaverton, ON: Aspasia, 2004. 226 pp. $24.00 sc. Emigration from North...

History, Literature and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... History, literature, and the writing of the Canadian prairies. Alison Calder and Robert Wardhaugh, eds. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2005. 310 pp. $24.95 sc. History, literature, and the writing of the Canadian prairies is a...

Guido: Le roman d'un immigrant.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Guido: Le roman d'un immigrant. Rita Amabili-Rivet. Montreal: Hurtubise HMH, 2004. 350 pp. $24.95 sc. With this historical novel Rita Amabili-Rivet, a French-language Quebec writer of Italian origin, pays homage to her father-and to all...

Raymond and Hannah.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Raymond and Hannah. Stephen Marche. Doubleday Canada, 2005. 207 pp. $25.00 hc. Raymond and Hannah is a novel of polarities and irreconcilable opposites. It presents a love affair between a Christian man and a Jewish woman who are tossed...

All that Matters: A Novel.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... All that matters: A novel. Wayson Choy. Toronto: Anchor Canada, 2005.423 pp. $21.00 sc. After Wayson Choy's much-loved The jade peony (1995), he returns with another detailed chronicle of the Chen family. Winking at us with his subtitle,...

This Body.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... This body. Tessa McWatt. Toronto: HarperCollins, 2004. 328 pp. $32.95 hc. A new kind of fiction has begun to appear, a kind of writing that troubles neat academic or marketing classifications. Call it postethnic, transnational, "global":...

The Greenies.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Greenies. Myra Paperny. Toronto: HarperTrophyCanada, 2005.250 pp. $15.99 sc. Writing a fictionalized history of any particular group's experiences is as difficult as taking a black and white photograph and re-imagining its subject as a...

Peace Walker: The legend of Hiawatha and Tekanawita.(Orphans in the Sky)(Coyote's New Suit)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Peace Walker: The legend of Hiawatha and Tekanawita. C.J. Taylor. Toronto: Tundra, 2004.48 pp. $22.99, ages 8 up; Coyote's new suit. Thomas King, Illust. Johnny Wales. Toronto: Key Porter Kids, 2004. $19.95, ages 4-8; Orphans in the sky. Jeanne...