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Author Triadafilopoulos, Triadafilos.

Title Becoming multicultural : immigration and the politics of membership in Canada and Germany / Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos
Published Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2012

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Contents Introduction -- Building Walls, Bounding Nations -- Between Two Worlds -- Dismantling White Canada -- Guest Workers into Germans -- Conclusion
Summary In a world of nation-states, international migration raises questions of membership: Should foreigners be admitted to the national space? And should they and their children be granted citizenship? Canada and Germany's responses to these questions during the first half of the twentieth century consisted of discriminatory immigration and citizenship policies aimed at harnessing migration for economic ends while minimizing its costs. Yet, by the end of the century, the admission, settlement, and incorporation of previously excluded groups had transformed both countries into highly diverse multicultural societies. Becoming Multicultural explains how this remarkable shift came about. Triadafilopoulos argues that dramatic changes in global norms after the Second World War made the maintenance of established membership regimes difficult to defend, opening the way for the liberalization of immigration and citizenship policies. It is a thought-provoking analysis that sheds light on the dynamics of membership politics and policy making in contemporary liberal-democratic countries
Notes Title from PDF title page (viewed on June 13, 2012)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century
Citizenship -- Government policy -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
Citizenship -- Government policy -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Multiculturalism -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
Multiculturalism -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration.
Immigration.
Citoyenneté.
Pluralisme culturel.
Histoire.
Politique gouvernementale.
Etat-nation.
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
Multiculturalism
Canada.
Allemagne RF.
Canada
Germany
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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