SOCI 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Canadian Multiculturalism Act, October Crisis, James Cross
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To increase the breadth of your understanding of what multiculturalism actually is. To critically assess the pros and cons of canadian multiculturalism policy within the canadian context. Important: diversity is a result of state policies - people are recruited, come from former colonies. Policies and approaches vary from country to country. Labour shortages re(cid:272)ruited turkish (cid:862)guest(cid:863) (cid:449)orkers. Supposed to return, many stayed and had families. Problem until 1999: jus sanguinis citizenship only german origin. Less 1/3 turkish origin in german (3 million) have citizenship. Problem until 1999: could not hold dual citizenship. Any children born from that point on assumed german citizenship. Did(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) ho(cid:449) to (cid:272)reate (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) ger(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:272)ulture so encouraged turkish minority to retain own culture. Since no incentive to become part of larger group became more religious and linguistically separate. Angela merkel: german multiculturalism has "utterly failed" (cid:862)o(cid:374)us is o(cid:374) (cid:374)e(cid:449) arri(cid:448)als to do (cid:373)ore to i(cid:374)tegrate i(cid:374)to ger(cid:373)a(cid:374) so(cid:272)iety(cid:863)
