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Multiculturalism as an Integrational Policy

Lessons from Second Generation Racialized Minorities

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Revisiting Multiculturalism in Canada

Part of the book series: Transnational Migration and Education ((TMAE))

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Canada has the largest foreign-born population (20.6%) among the G8 countries, and this figure is only second to Australia (26.8%) across the world (Statistics Canada, 2011). Compared with many other countries, Canada’s distinctive immigration and integration model characteristic of large-scale skill-based immigration policy and integration policy of multiculturalism has been regarded as relatively successful in that Canadian public holds a general positive attitude towards mass immigration (Reitz, 2012).

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  1. Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada

    Dan Cui

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  1. University of Calgary, Canada

    Shibao Guo

  2. University of Calgary, Canada

    Lloyd Wong

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Cui, D. (2015). Multiculturalism as an Integrational Policy. In: Guo, S., Wong, L. (eds) Revisiting Multiculturalism in Canada. Transnational Migration and Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-208-0_13

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