Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal articles from March 2007

Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal archives from March 2007

Five immigrant waves: their ideological orientations and partisan reverberations.
March 22, 2007... Abstract This article identifies five waves of Canadian immigration over four centuries and connects them with their dominant political outlooks and partisan expressions. Taking a panoramic historical perspective, it locates immigrant...

Discrimination et linguicisme au Quebec: Enquete sur la diversite ethnique au Canada.
March 22, 2007... Abstract After defining discrimination and linguicism, the first part of the paper provides a brief overview of employment problems experienced by minority groups in Quebec. Part two offers results from a special analysis of the Ethnic...

The Protestant churches and the resettlement of Japanese Canadians in urban Ontario, 1942-1955.
March 22, 2007... Abstract This article examines the relationship between the Protestant churches and Japanese Canadians during and following the Second World War in their forced resettlement to central Canadian urban centers like Toronto and Hamilton,...

"There will be a next time": media discourse about an "apocalyptic" vision of immigration, racial diversity, and health risks.
March 22, 2007... Abstract This study examines Canadian media coverage of a female visitor from the Congo, suspected of carrying a deadly disease, to show how "race" has been constructed and sustained in Canadian society. Critical discourse analysis of four...

Becoming the hyphen: the evolution of English-language Ukrainian-Canadian literature.
March 22, 2007... Abstract This article explores the evolution of Ukrainian-Canadian literature written in English over the last fifty years. It begins by outlining how early Ukrainian-Canadian English-language literature posits a sense of ethnicity that is...

The unbounded German nation: Dr. Otto Hahn and German emigration to Canada in the 1870s and 1880s.
March 22, 2007... Abstract Otto Hahn, a lawyer and emigration promoter from the German state of Wurttemberg, was an integral part of the German debate about emigration, colonial empire and German identity. This paper suggests that any discussion of...

Modeling educational success of first nations students in Canada: community level perspectives.
March 22, 2007... Abstract Canadian assessments of First Nation and Aboriginal education lack any real modelling of reasons for the particular patterns of attainment--it is this void that we wish to fill. This paper examines educational attainment in First...

Roma identity: contrasting constructions.
March 22, 2007... Abstract The increasing settlement in Hamilton, Ontario of large numbers of Roma families from seeking refugee status has challenged local service providers in the health, social services, education, immigration, and justice sectors. The...

Chinese acculturation measurement.
March 22, 2007... Abstract In 2001, the Chinese were the largest visible minority group in Canada, with over one million individuals identifying themselves as Chinese. There is a growing concern about the extent to which the Chinese and other minority...

Reconsidering Emily Carr.
March 22, 2007... Gerta Moray. Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Cart. Vancouver: UBC Press; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. 386 pp. Illustrations. Bibliographic essay. Index. $75.00 hc. Donald Ellis, ed....

Manoly R. Lupul. The Politics of Multiculturalism: A Ukrainian-Canadian Memoir.
March 22, 2007... Manoly R. Lupul. The Politics of Multiculturalism: A Ukrainian-Canadian Memoir. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2005. xviii, 508 pp. Illustrations. Index. $34.95 hc. Manoly Lupul's book shows what many have...

Evangelia Tastsoglou and Alexandra Dobrowolsky, eds. Women, Migration, and Citizenship: Making Local, National, and Transnational Connections.
March 22, 2007... Evangelia Tastsoglou and Alexandra Dobrowolsky, eds. Women, Migration, and Citizenship: Making Local, National, and Transnational Connections. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. 258 pp. $99.95 hc. This collection is a critical...

Elspeth Cameron, ed. Multiculturalism and Immigration in Canada: An Introductory Reader.
March 22, 2007... Elspeth Cameron, ed. Multiculturalism and Immigration in Canada: An Introductory Reader. xxiv, 426 pp. Toronto: Canadian Scholar's Press, 2004. $49.95 sc. Elspeth Cameron introduces Multiculturalism and Immigration in Canada by noting that...

Peter Showler. Refugee Sandwich: Stories of Exile and Asylum.
March 22, 2007... Peter Showler. Refugee Sandwich: Stories of Exile and Asylum. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. 235 pp. $27.95 sc. There has long been a striking discrepancy between the controversy that surrounds the treatment...

Gerhard P. Bassler. Vikings to U-Boats: The German Experience in Newfoundland and Labrador.
March 22, 2007... Gerhard P. Bassler. Vikings to U-Boats: The German Experience in Newfoundland and Labrador. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. 378 pp. $89.00 hc. Newfoundland and Labrador seems an unlikely locale for a book about...

Ute Lischke and David T. McNab, eds. Walking a Tightrope: Aboriginal People and Their Representations.
March 22, 2007... Ute Lischke and David T. McNab, eds. Walking a Tightrope: Aboriginal People and Their Representations. Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2005. 377 pp. Bibliography. $34.95 sc. Walking a Tightrope constitutes a remarkably...

Eden Robinson. Blood Sports.
March 22, 2007... Eden Robinson. Blood Sports. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2006. 288 pp. $21.00 sc. Richard Wagamese. Dream Wheels. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2006.416 pp. $21.00 sc. Since 1983 novels by Canadian First Nations and Metis authors...

David A. Green and Jonathan R. Kesselman, eds. Dimensions of Inequality in Canada.
March 22, 2007... David A. Green and Jonathan R. Kesselman, eds. Dimensions of Inequality in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007. 477 pp. Index. $29.95 sc. Dimensions of Inequality in Canada is one of three edited volumes that came about from the Equality,...

Laurence Alfonsi. L'Ile ronde.
March 22, 2007... Laurence Alfonsi. L'Ile ronde. Dole (France): Gunten, Collection >, 2006. 173 pp. 17 euros. sc. La sociologue francaise Laurence Alfonsi publie son premier roman, qu'elle situe principalement sur une ile en Ontario, non loin de Kingston....

D.Y. Bechard. Vandal Love.
March 22, 2007... D.Y. Bechard. Vandal Love. Scarborough, ON: Doubleday Canada, 2006. 345 pp. $29.95 hc. D.Y. Bechard's first novel, which won the 2007 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, is difficult to classify as it combines the mythological,...

Diane Purvey and Christopher Walmsley, eds. Child and Family Welfare in British Columbia: A History.
March 22, 2007... Diane Purvey and Christopher Walmsley, eds. Child and Family Welfare in British Columbia: A History. Calgary: Detselig Enterprises, 2005.377 pp. $31.95 sc. The book is a virtual goldmine of information about child and family welfare in...

Shani Mootoo. He Drown She in the Sea.
March 22, 2007... Shani Mootoo. He Drown She in the Sea. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2005. 350 pp. $29.99 hc; $21.00 sc. In her second novel, He Drown She in the Sea, Shani Mootoo, Indo-Trinidadian-Canadian writer, visual artist, and filmmaker, once...

Robin S. Gendron. Towards a Francophone Community.
March 22, 2007... Robin S. Gendron. Towards a Francophone Community. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. 191 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $75.00 hc. Robin Gendron's Towards a Francophone Community chronicles the complicated relations between...