Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal articles from March 1998

Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal archives from March 1998

Postwar Dutch Immigrants in Ontario: A Re-examination of Immigration and Ethnicity.
March 22, 1998... ABSTRACT/RESUME The article presents the case study of postwar Dutch immigrants in Ontario, with an emphasis on intra-ethnic diversity. Postwar Dutch-speaking immigrants include several distinct subgroups, whose respective members...

The Hungarian Refugee Student Movement of 1956-57 and Canada.
March 22, 1998... ABSTRACT/RESUME In 1956 and early 1957 about twenty percent of the post-secondary population of Hungary left for the West. European and overseas nations agreed on the importance of this migration movement but differed on the role the state...

Simple Sentimentality or Specific Narrative Strategy? The Functions and Use of Nostalgia in the Ukrainian-Canadian Text.
March 22, 1998... ABSTRACT/RESUME This paper explores the functions and use of nostalgia in Ukrainian-Canadian writing. It argues that nostalgia underwrites a significant number of Ukrainian-Canadian texts and functions as a highly successful narrative and...

Chinese Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Vancouver: A Case Study of Ethnic Business Development.
March 22, 1998... ABSTRACT/RESUME This paper examines the ethnic strategies of Chinese business immigrants who have come to Canada as "entrepreneurs" under the auspices of the Canadian Business Immigration Program. It applies the Interactive Model of ethnic...

Chinese Language Maintenance in Winnipeg.
March 22, 1998... ABSTRACT/RESUME This paper presents the results of a study of language maintenance in the Chinese community of Winnipeg. As well as English, the linguistic repertoire of the Chinese in Winnipeg contains a number of Sinitic languages,...

Les modeles d'insertion urbaine des groupes ethniques: discussion a partir du cas des quartiers multiethniques montrealais.
March 22, 1998... ABSTRACT/RESUME Comment les immigrants, et plus largement, les groupes ethniques inserent-ils dans la ville? Comment se distribuent-ils dans l'espace urbain? A partir des resultats d'une vaste enquete sur la cohabitation interethnique dans...

Ethnic Inequality: Well-Paid Employees of the Ontario Public Bureaucracy.
March 22, 1998... ABSTRACT/RESUME In the Vertical Mosaic (1965) Porter pointed to a hierarchy of stratified social positions, such that each ethnic group has differential access to opportunities, resources and rewards. Thereafter continued much debate as to...

Quelques Observations Sur Les Mariages Irlandais Dans la Paroisse Notre-Dame de Montreal (1840-1861).
March 22, 1998... ABSTRACT/RESUME Vous trouverez dans cet article une analyse des comportements matrimoniaux des Irlandais faite partir des registres de manages de la paroisse Notre-Dame de Montreal entre les annees 1840 et 1861. L'auteur demontre que la...

Social Justice and Language Policy in Education: The Canadian Research. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
March 22, 1998... Social Justice and Language Policy in Education: The Canadian Research. David Corson and Sylvie Lemay. Toronto: OISE Press, 1996. vi + 153 pp. In this handy, slim volume, Corson and Lemay examine the recent Canadian literature on...

Canadian Family Policies; Cross-National Comparisons. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
March 22, 1998... Canadian Family Policies; Cross-National Comparisons. Maureen Baker. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. Maureen Baker's book adds to a rapidly growing, but yet scarce, body of cross-national studies of family policies (Kamerman and...

Sport, Identity and Ethnicity. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
March 22, 1998... Sport, Identity and Ethnicity. Jeremy MacClancy, ed. Oxford, U.K.: Berg Publishers, 1996. 203 pp. $19.95 (U.S.) pb. Of late, researchers working in what might broadly be termed the sociology of sport have produced an impressive literature...

An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People. (Book Reviews/Recensions).(I have Lived Here Since the World Began)
March 22, 1998... I Have Lived Here Since the World Began. An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People. Arthur J. Ray. Toronto: Lester Publishing/Key Porter Books, 1996. xvii + 398 pp. $45.00 hc. Arthur J. Ray's I Have Lived Here Since the World Began:...

Treaty Talks in British Columbia: Negotiating a Mutually Beneficial Future. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
March 22, 1998... Treaty Talks in British Columbia: Negotiating a Mutually Beneficial Future. Christopher McKee. Vancouver, British Columbia: UBC Press, 1996. 126 pp. Treaty Talks is a timely book which will serve, in the absence of a more comprehensive...

Cheap Wage Labour: Race and Gender in the Fisheries of British Columbia. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
March 22, 1998... Cheap Wage Labour: Race and Gender in the Fisheries of British Columbia. Alicja Muszynski. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996. 314 pp. $44.95 hc. Cheap Wage Labour, based on Alicja Muszynski's doctoral dissertation, discusses...

Iroquois Fires: The Six Nations Lyrics and Lore of Dawendine. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
March 22, 1998... Iroquois Fires: The Six Nations Lyrics and Lore of Dawendine. Bernice L. Winslow. Ottawa: Penumbra Press, 1995. The publication of this book is a result of a series of events that can only be described as 'serendipitous.' Almost sixty years...

Shingwauk's Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
March 22, 1998... Shingwauk's Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools. J. R. Miller. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. 585 pp. $70.00 cloth/$29.95 paper. Residential schools for Natives have attracted considerable media publicity in recent...

Mennonites in Canada 1939-1970: A People Transformed. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
March 22, 1998... Mennonites in Canada 1939-1970: A People Transformed. T.D. Regehr. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. 563 pp. This is the third volume in the series, Mennonites in Canada. The first two volumes, written by Frank H. Epp, covered the...

Exiguity: Reflections on the Margins of Literature. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
March 22, 1998... Exiguity: Reflections on the Margins of Literature. Francois Pare. (Translated from the French by Lin Burman). Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997. vi + 183 pp. $24.95. Quebec-born Francois Pare won the Governor-General's Award...

Mind Me Good Now! & Lady Kaguya's Secret: A Japanese Tale. & The Very Hungry Lion: A Folktale & Three Monks, No Water. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
March 22, 1998... Mind Me Good Now! Lynette Comissiong, illus. Marie Lafrance. Toronto: Annick, 1997. 32 pp. $16.95. $6.95 pa.; Lady Kaguya's Secret: A Japanese Tale. Jirina Marton, illus. Jirina Marton. Toronto: Annick, 1997. 48 pp. $19.95.; The Very Hungry...

Errata.
March 22, 1998... Volume XXIX, #3, 1997 lists Dr. E.F. Dyck as sole guest editor. The role of Dr. Robert J. Mills, also of Red Deer College, as co-editor was inadvertantly ommited.