1st Edition

Beyond Binaries and Polarization? Rethinking Pluralist Inclusion in Immigrant Nations

Edited By Elke Winter Copyright 2025
142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores what lies between the statuses of insider and outsider in immigrant nations. It asks: Who is conditionally included/excluded in relation to whom, and for what reasons? What does this conditional inclusion/exclusion entail in terms of citizenship, material resources, and sense of belonging? How does it affect the cultural and economic well-being of refugees, migrants and the... Read more

Foreword

Phil Ryan

 

Introduction: Beyond Binaries and Polarization? Rethinking Pluralist Inclusion in Immigrant Nations

Elke Winter

 

1. Conservatism and the Re-Communitarianization of Citizenship in Canada

John Carlaw and Elke Winter

 

2. Staggered Inclusion: Between Temporary and Permanent Immigration Status in Quebec, Canada

Danièle Bélanger, Myriam Ouellet, Capucine Coustere and Charles Fleury

 

3. The Paradox of Pluralism: Municipal Integration Policy in Québec

Bob W. White

 

4. A Diverse Minority of Intolerance: Ethnic Relations in a Multicultural Society

Mathieu Lizotte

 

5. Hailing in the Face of Covid-19: On the Uses and Abuses of Heroism

Elke Winter, Leah Bassel and Marina Gomá

 

Afterword: The Value of Normative Models for Understanding Pluralism

Howard Ramos

Biography

Elke Winter is Professor of Sociology at the bilingual University of Ottawa/ Université d’Ottawa, Canada. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists and the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, she recently served as Harvard University’s William Lyon Mackenzie King Chair for Canadian Studies.