Canadian society is rapidly evolving. By 2017, persons belonging to a visible minority group will comprise 20 percent of the population. In Canada’s major cities, the proportion of persons classified ...

Jonathan Wagner considers why Germans left their home country, why they chose to settle in Canada, who assisted their passage, and how they crossed the ocean to their new home, as well as how the Canadian ...

Anna Pratt takes a close look at the laws, policies, and practices of detention and deportation in Canada since the Second World War. She demonstrates that although the desire to fortify the border against ...

Multiculturalism and Immigration in Canada: An Introductory Reader offers a solid introduction to the history and development of the ideology of multiculturalism in Canada. This ideology, which has become ...

Patricia Roy’s latest book, The Oriental Question, continues her study into why British Columbians — and many Canadians from outside the province — were historically so opposed to Asian immigration. ...

From refugee policy to migration songs, this unique collection of essays demonstrates how important immigration and ties to other parts of the world are to Canadians and to the Canadian identity. Contributors ...

Dirk Hoerder shows us that it is not shining railroad tracks or statesmen in Ottawa that make up the story of Canada but rather individual stories of life and labour - Caribbean women who care for children ...

In The Chinese in Vancouver, Wing Chung Ng captures the
fascinating story of the city’s Chinese in their search for
identity. He juxtaposes the cultural positions of different generations
of Chinese ...

Using a prosopographical approach that combines descriptive exposition, quantitative tabulation, and structural analysis, Randy Widdis determines the geographical and social origins of migrants, the distance ...