Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal articles from June 2006

Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal archives from June 2006

Editor's note.
June 22, 2006... As readers of Canadian Ethnic Studies/Etudes ethniques au Canada learned in the last issue, I have the honour of becoming the latest editor of the journal. Perhaps phrases like "being honoured" and having "big shoes to fill" have become almost...

Obscurantism in action: how the Ontario Human Rights Commission frames racial profiling.
June 22, 2006... ABSTRACT/RESUME The phenomenon of racial profiling in Ontario has long been acknowledged by members of racialized communities, progressive activists, and others--but official acknowledgment was always withheld. This changed in late 2003...

A comparison of the earnings of the Canadian native-born and immigrants, 2001.
June 22, 2006... ABSTRACT/RESUME Since the late 1960s, Canada has been reforming its earlier discriminatory immigration policies preventing entry of individuals from "undesirable" countries and/or nationalities. This resulted in a dramatic increase in the...

The market value of friendship: social networks of immigrants.
June 22, 2006... ABSTRACT/RESUME Recent research has pointed to the significance of social capital in the dynamics of international migration, from initiating the process of migration to the settlement and success of immigrants in host countries....

Poetics of exile and dislocation in Saad Elkhadem's Wings of Lead (1971), The Plague (1989), and Trilogy of the Flying Egyptian (1990-1992).
June 22, 2006... He traveled abroad to quench his thirst for freedom, knowledge, and love, but his heavy wings could lift him no higher than a few feet before he fell down, shattering his dreams. (Saad Elkhadem; epigraph of Wings of Lead 1971) ...

Understanding immigrants' initiatives in the new economy: the case of Western Canada.
June 22, 2006... ABSTRACT/RESUME In the trans-Pacific region, new immigrants as professionals and entrepreneurs can be understood as pursuing innovative initiatives. They are aided by a specific employment and immigration market that emerged with the...

Vietnamese-Canadian University students in Regina: socio-cultural and educational adaptation.
June 22, 2006... ABSTRACT/RESUME A questionnaire survey of the socio-cultural and educational adaptation experiences of Vietnamese-Canadian university students was conducted in a Canadian prairie city. Students' language use, acculturation, academic...

Associations de groupes ethniques minoritaires et consultations publiques au Quebec, 1974-2000: la difficile construction d'une 'parole minoritaire'[c].
June 22, 2006... RESUME/ABSTRACT This article examines the process of the institutionalization of ethnic relations according to the development of, and the increase in, the modern state in Quebec. Ethnic minority groups' discourses are analyzed as these...

The Encyclopedia of Ukraine project: a personal memoir (1976-1986) *.
June 22, 2006... ABSTRACT/RESUME This paper summarizes the author's involvement, as director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) at the University of Alberta, in the preparation of the first two volumes of the five-volume Encyclopedia of...

Let my picture wander with your hat: a bitter tale of settlement.
June 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION Upon the shocking death of my beloved brother and in the months following the loss, my family and I confronted extra dimensions involved in coping with death in a host country. Consumed by the grief and captured in the web of...

A response to Hier and Walby's article: Competing Analytical Paradigms in the sociological study of racism in Canada.
June 22, 2006... Hier and Walby's 2006 article "Competing Analytical Paradigms," published in the last issue of this journal (vol. 38, no. 1), presents a provocative analysis in which two different paradigms used in the study of racism in Canada are identified....

In remembrance of Helen Ralston (1929-2006).
June 22, 2006... Sister Helen Ralston, RSCJ, Ph.D., Professor Emerita of Sociology at Saint Mary's University, and one of the grandes dames of Canadian Sociology, passed away on 25 December 2006, following a brief illness. She was born in Newcastle, New South...

Errata.(Correction notice)
June 22, 2006... Dr. Sandeep K. Agrawal has asked us to clarify that the population of Asian Indians in the Greater Toronto Area is [close to] 350,000, and not three-and-a-half million, as was mistakenly noted on page 118 of our last issue, vol. 38, no. 1,...

A Concise History of Canada's First Nations.
June 22, 2006... A Concise History of Canada's First Nations. Olive Patricia Dickason, adapted by Morira Jean Calder. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2006. 387 pp. incl. list of National Historic Sites of Canada Commemorating Aboriginal History, glossary, web...

Recognizing Aboriginal Title: The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English Settler Colonialism.
June 22, 2006... Recognizing Aboriginal Title: The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English Settler Colonialism. Peter H. Russell. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 470 pp. $65.00 hc. In Recognizing Aboriginal Title: The Mabo Case and...

With Good Intentions: Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal Relations in Colonial Canada.
June 22, 2006... With Good Intentions: Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal Relations in Colonial Canada. Celia Haig-Brown and David Nock, eds. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006. 376 pp. $32.95 sc. The editors of With Good Intentions: Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal...

Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada's Colonial Past.
June 22, 2006... Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada's Colonial Past. Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. 308 pp. $85 hc. Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada's Colonial Past is a collection of...

In Defence of Multinational Citizenship.
June 22, 2006... In Defence of Multinational Citizenship. Siobhan Harty and Michael Murphy. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. 206 pp. $32.95 sc. Will Kymlicka's work on multicultural citizenship and minority cultural rights (1995) has inaugurated a field for...

Calculated Kindness: Global Restructuring, Immigration and Settlement in Canada.
June 22, 2006... Calculated Kindness: Global Restructuring, Immigration and Settlement in Canada. Rose Baaba Folson, ed. Halifax: Fernwood, 2004. 172 pp. $17.95 US sc. Providing insight into both the historical formation of Canada's immigration policies...

Transnational Identities and Practices in Canada.
June 22, 2006... Transnational Identities and Practices in Canada. Vic Satzewich and Lloyd Wong, eds. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006. 352 pp. $85.00 hc; $34.95 SC. Fuelled by globalization and by technological advancements allowing for easier communication and...

From the Study of Canada to Canadian Studies. To Know Our Many Selves. Changing Across Time and Space.
June 22, 2006... From the Study of Canada to Canadian Studies. To Know Our Many Selves. Changing Across Time and Space. Dirk Hoerder. Augsburg: Wissner-Verlag, 2005. 21.19 EUR. 347 pp. SC. J'ai ete agreablement impressionne par la qualite et le serieux de...

Discourses of Denial: Mediations of Gender, Race, and Violence.
June 22, 2006... Discourses of Denial: Mediations of Gender, Race, and Violence. Yasmin Jiwani Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006. 255 pp. $85.00 hc. Deftly combining post-colonial theory, poignant prose, and passionate activism, Jiwani tackles issues of...

Claiming Space, Racialization in Canadian Cities.
June 22, 2006... Claiming Space, Racialization in Canadian Cities. Cheryl Teelucksingh, ed. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006. 210 pp. $32.95 sc. This interdisciplinary collection questions the assumption of racial harmony in Canada and...

Racial Profiling in Canada: Challenging the Myth of "a Few Bad Apples.".
June 22, 2006... Racial Profiling in Canada: Challenging the Myth of "a Few Bad Apples." Carol Tator and Frances Henry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. 251 pp. $75.00 hc; $35.00 sc. Tator and Henry's book was apparently prompted by a series of...

Chinese Islanders: Making a Home in the New World.
June 22, 2006... Chinese Islanders: Making a Home in the New World. Hung-Min Chiang. Charlottetown: Island Studies Press, 2006. 187 pp. $24.95 sc. When considering the state of Prince Edward Island's historiography, the topic of its Chinese population...

The Canadian Jewish Studies Reader.
June 22, 2006... The Canadian Jewish Studies Reader. Richard Menkis and Norman Ravvin, eds. Calgary: Red Deer Press, 2004. 493 pp. sc $24.95 CAD; $18.95 US. Published as the third book in a series dedicated to Canadian Jewish studies, this volume is a...

A Community Comes to a Crossroad. Vancouver's Society of Italians.
June 22, 2006... A Community Comes to a Crossroad. Vancouver's Society of Italians, Volume III. Raymond Culos. Montreal: Cusmano, 2006. 204 pp. $39.95 hc. rayculos@shaw.ca. or 604.298.4683 to order. When the handsome building housing the Italian Cultural...

Folk Furniture of Canada's Doukhobors, Hutterites, Mennonites and Ukrainians.
June 22, 2006... Folk Furniture of Canada's Doukhobors, Hutterites, Mennonites and Ukrainians. John Fleming and Michael Rowan. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2004, 155 pp., including notes, bibliography, and index; $60.00 hc. The publisher appears...

False Expectations: Politics and the Pursuit of the Saskatchewan Myth.
June 22, 2006... False Expectations: Politics and the Pursuit of the Saskatchewan Myth. Dale Eisler. Regina: CPRC Press, 2006. $24.95 sc. 251 pp. False Expectations centers around an idea of the Saskatchewan myth: that Saskatchewan is a bountiful land where...

La gouvernance linguistique: le Canada en perspective.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... La gouvernance linguistique: le Canada en perspective. Jean-Pierre Wallot, ed. Ottawa: Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa, 2005. xxvi + 306 pp. 34,95 $ Les 18 textes rassembles par Jean-Pierre Wallot ont ete produits initialement pour le...

Differences that Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada.
June 22, 2006... Differences that Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada. Dan Zuberi. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. During most of the 1980s and 1990s, the future of social assistance-better known as...

Prisoners of the home front: German POWs and "enemy aliens" in southern Quebec, 1940-46.
June 22, 2006... Prisoners of the home front: German POWs and "enemy aliens" in southern Quebec, 1940-46. Martin F. Auger. Vancouver: UBC Press with the University of British Columbia and the Canadian War Museum, 2005. $29.00 sc. xii + 227 pp. Cet ouvrage...

Writing Beyond History: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry.
June 22, 2006... Writing Beyond History: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry. Licia Canton, Delia De Santis, and Venera Fazio, eds. Montreal: Cusmano Communications, 2006. 178 pp. $20.00 sc. This anthology of thirty authors of Italian heritage edited by Licia...

Where is Here? The Drama of Immigration.
June 22, 2006... Where is Here? The Drama of Immigration. Vol. I. Damiano Pietropaolo, ed. Winnipeg: Scirocco, 2005. 256 pp. $19.95 sc. Where is Here? The Drama of Immigration. Vol. II. Damiano Pietropaolo, ed. Winnipeg: Scirocco, 2005. 160 pp. $19.95 sc....

Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout.
June 22, 2006... Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout. Tomson Highway. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2005.93 pp. $15.95 sc. Tomson Highway's return to writing for the stage after the success of his 1998 novel Kiss of the Fur Queen might initially seem a reluctant...

'da Kink in my hair: voices of black womyn.
June 22, 2006... 'da Kink in my hair: voices of black womyn. trey anthony. Toronto: Playwrights Canada, 2005.60 pp. $15.95 sc. In an early moment in 'da Kink in my hair, Enid, expressing her desire for love-or at least a man to share her sweet potato pie...

Casualties.
June 22, 2006... Casualties. Terrence Heath. Regina: Coteau, 2005. 328 pp. $19.95 sc. A detective story that thoughtfully revisits 1930s prairie history, Terrence Heath's Casualties is a narrative rife with romance, hardship, and tragedy. With eight...

Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?
June 22, 2006... Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? Anita Rau Badami. Toronto: Knopf, 2006.412 pp. $34.95 ho. The tragedy of Air India Flight 182 remains the worst act of terrorism in Canadian history. Over twenty years after the bombing, the questions left...

Revival: An Anthology of Black Canadian Writing.
June 22, 2006... Revival: An Anthology of Black Canadian Writing, ed. Donna Bailey Nurse. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2006. 384 pp. $29.99 sc. The back cover of the newest anthology of black Canadian writing claims quite honestly to "celebrate one of our...

Children of the Day.
June 22, 2006... Children of the Day. Sandra Birdsell. Toronto: Random House Canada, 2005.405 pp. $35.95 hc. Sandra Birdsell, the Giller and Governor-General's Award nominated author, displays another range of narrative dexterity in her latest novel...