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Multiculturalism already unbound

From: Home and Native Land

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Considers how forms of citizenship participation practiced by Indian immigrants within the multicultural framework of Canada simultaneously configure local and transnational community development. Explores how Canada’s official policy of multiculturalism informs the country’s position in a landscape that is increasingly internationalized, transnational, and globally interpolated. Uses concrete examples from research on Indian immigration to Canada and associated transnational practices to illustrate how multiculturalism, as a Canadian policy, interacts with transnational circulations of people, capital, and ideas, and in the process becomes unbound from the confines of Westphalian sovereignty.

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Margaret Walton-Roberts

Margaret Walton-Roberts is an associate professor in the Geography and Environmental Studies Department at Wilfrid Laurier University and the director of the International Migration Research Centre. Her research addresses gender, immigrant settlement in mid-sized Canadian cities, and the impact of transnational networks in both source and destination locales.