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L'auteure veut ici contribuer aux critiques faites au Quebec sur les debats autour des accommodements raisonnables en suggerant de conjuguer les subventions accordees aux recherches sur les handicapes et les [...]

Introduction Sybil Shack helped define education in the province of Manitoba, Canada, as much as Manitoba and its schools defined her. She was a teacher, teaching principal, textbook writer, educational [...]

Abstract This article examines whether the family and religious networks and attachments that are central to the migration experience facilitate the political and civic integration of foreign-born Canadians. Using data [...]

Abstract Women's rights face an uncertain future throughout much of the Islamic world. The fate of women's rights throughout the Islamic world crucially hinges upon the outcome of debates on [...]

'Pluralism' has for decades had a fairly straightforward meaning for American political scientists. It has denoted a political system in which polity and society are clearly demarcated; in which society [...]

The daily schedule of any secretary of state or national security adviser attests to America's ethnic diversity. Interspersed with interminable staff meetings and appointments with visiting foreign dignitaries are sessions [...]

The recent political transition in Kenya provoked a debate over which institutions are appropriate to govern a multiethnic democracy. This continuing debate reflects the enduring and problematic relevance of ethnicity [...]

In recent years Americans have been understandably anxious that their increasingly diverse society is fragmenting along group lines and identities. Now a massive new federal government survey sheds considerable light [...]

DELEGATES TO the World Council of Churches' Faith and Order Commission meeting in Kuala Lumpur in August had the novel experience of seeing their sessions covered in the Malaysian media [...]

42 See Larry Rother, 'The Cold War of Cuba and the Miami Exiles Heats Up,' New York Times, 26 January 1992; James J. Guy, 'Cuba: A Regional Power Without a [...]

OVER the past fifty years, the world has seen Great Britain lose much of its greatness. This article is referring to the ability of Great Britain to be a world [...]

First you see the headdresses, tall colorful tablitas decorated with painted clouds and phallic shapes, rising from the ceremonial chamber at the edge of the mesa. Then the dancers, the [...]

Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity, Will Kymlicka (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 320 pp., $50 cloth, $28 paper. In Multicultural Odysseys, Will Kymlicka skillfully accomplishes [...]

Sixth Installment: Examining Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and William Jefferson Clinton Introduction In our nation's history all of the presidents have been white males. As West states [...]

Like its Soviet predecessor, Russia is the world's largest state and one of its most diverse. Historically, great size and diversity have intensified a number of challenges that all states [...]

Russia's multiethnic character has always been a fundamental yet often underestimated part of Russian politics. Both tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union crumbled when economic crisis and bureaucratic collapse coincided [...]

The conventional political wisdom about the major political parties is that Republicans ignore African Americans, and Democrats take us for granted. Thus, 84 percent of us voted Democratic in 1996, [...]

Almost thirty years have passed since the declaration of multiculturalism as official policy in Canada in 1971, and it can hardly have escaped the attention of anyone following anglophone Canadian [...]

GEORGE W. BUSH OPPOSES affirmative action, at least in theory; in practice he has an affirmative-action record that might have made Bill Clinton proud. According to Time magazine, Bush 'has [...]

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN higher education is almost certainly on its way back to the Supreme Court in the wake of contradictory appellate decisions about racial preferences in admissions. Ten years [...]