Discrimination and Multiculturalism in Canada: Exceptional or Incoherent Public Attitudes?
In this article, I argue that satisfaction with multiculturalism and support for discrimination in the immigration system are conceptually linked but distinct in the Canadian public's mind. Following a large literature, I make the case that despite a normative assumption of nondiscrimination in the...
| Publicado en: | American Review of Canadian Studies Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 166 - 189 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2021
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