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Table of contents :
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Contributors
1 The Race Challenge 2000
I.CONCEPTS AND THE THEORIES
2 Historical and Political Reflections on Race
3 Race in the Canadian Census
4 Racial Integration: Theoretical Options
5 Individual versus Collective Rights in Quebec
II.ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL FACTORS
6 A Model of Refugee Resettlement
7 Economic Adaptation of Asian Immigrants
8 Employment Equity for Visible Minorities
III. RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION
9 Public Opinion on Visible Minorities
10 Racism: Evidence from National Surveys
11 Discrimination: An Invisible Evil
IV. MINORITIES COPING IN CITIES
12 Redefinitions of South Asian Women
13 Acculturation and Chinese Delinquency
14 Chinese Refugees Coping with Stress in Toronto
References
Index
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B
C
D
E
F
G
H
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K
L
M
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P-Q
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W
Y-Z

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RACE AND RACISM

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RACE AND RACISM CANADA'S CHALLENGE

Edited by Leo Driedger and Shiva S. Halli

PUBLISHED FOR CARLETON UNIVERSITY BY MCGILL/QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY PRESS, MONTREAL & KINGSTON/LONDON/ITHACA

Copyright © McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000 ISBN 0-88629-365-0 (paper) Printed and bound in Canada Reprinted 2004 Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Main entry under title: Race and racism : Canada's challenge Essays originally presented at a conference held in Winnipeg, Nov. 2J--2/, 1996. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-88629-362-6 (bound) ISBN 0-88629-365-0 (pbk.) 1. Canada—Race relations. 2. Racism—Canada. I. Driedger, Leo, 1928- II. Halli, Shivalingappa S., 19^2-

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McGill-Queen's University Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) for our publishing activities. We also acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program.

CONTENTS List of Tables and Figures Preface Contributors 1

The Race Challenge 2000 Leo Driedger and Shiva S. Halli

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I. CONCEPTS AND THE THEORIES 2 3 4 j

Historical and Political Reflections on Race Sylvia Wargon Race in the Canadian Census Monica Boyd, Gustave Goldman, and Pamela White Racial Integration: Theoretical Options Leo Driedger and Shiva S. Halli Individual versus Collective Rights in Quebec Joseph O'Shea

20 jj J7 77

II. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL FACTORS 6 7 8

A Model of Refugee Resettlement Nancy Higgitt Economic Adaptation of Asian Immigrants Ravi B.P. Verma and Kwok Bun Chan Employment Equity for Visible Minorities T. John Samuel and Aly Karam

98 116 134

III. RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION 9 10 //

Public Opinion on Visible Minorities Leo Driedger and Angus Reid Racism: Evidence from National Surveys John Berry and Rudolf Kalin Discrimination: An Invisible Evil Donald W. Taylor, Stephen Wright, and Karen Ruggiero

152 772 186

IV. MINORITIES COPING IN CITIES 12 13 14

References Index

Redefinitions of South Asian Women Helen Ralston Acculturation and Chinese Delinquency Siu Kwong Wong Chinese Refugees Coping with Stress in Toronto Guang Tian

204 23 5 2jj 277 321

TABLES /./ The Four Stages of Maintaining the Two-Category System of Stratification

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3.1 Historical Overview of Canada's Collection of Ethnic and Racial Origin Data by Census Year

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3.2 Descent Rules by Census Year by Ethnic/Racial/Tribal Origin

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3.3 1991 and 1996 Census: Test and Census Questions

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4. i The Assimilation Variables Developed by Gordon

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7. i Immigration Flow to Canada by Country of Last Residence

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7.2 Percentage Distribution of Occupations and Index of Dissimilarity between Canadian-born and Asian Immigrants 124 7.3 Average Income and Relative Index of Selected Immigrant and Canadian-born Groups

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7.4 Measures of Economic Performance of Selected Immigrants and Canadian-born Persons

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8. i Representation of Designated Groups in the Public Service 1988-95

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8.2 Visible Minorities in the Public Service by Occupational Category and Age 140 8.3 Visible Minorities in the Public Service, 1987-95

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8.4 Total and Visible Minority Employees by Sector for FederallyRegulated Industries

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9.1 Means of Evaluations of Various Ethnic Groups

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9.2 Canadian Attitudes toward Immigration, Ethnic, and Racial Diversity

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9.3 Degree of Comfort Canadians Feel Around a Variety of Recent Immigrants

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9.4 Mosaic Versus Melting Pot Preferences

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9.5

Feelings of Uneasiness

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9.6 National Perceived Discrimination

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9.7 Approval of Intergroup Marriage

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9.8 Perceptions that Groups Have "Too Much Power"

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IQ.I Measures of Ethnocentrism (1974) and Tolerance (1991)

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I}. I Means of the Variables for Native-born and Foreign-born Respondents

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13.2 Immigrant Status and Other Factors of Acculturation

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13.3 Effects of Acculturation on Delinquency

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13.4 Correlations between Acculturation and the Variables of Parental Control

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13.5 Effects of Parental Control on Delinquency

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14.1 Types of Stress and Related Factors

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14.2 MCR's Experience of Discrimination by Education

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14.3 MCR's Satisfaction with Social Life in Canada

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14.4 Satisfaction by Five Factors

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14.5 MCR's Coping Resources and Behaviour

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FIGURES /./ A Conformity-Pluralist Conceptual Model

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j.i Birth Rate in Quebec, 1931-91

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5.2 Immigrants to Quebec, 1945-90

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5.3 Interprovincial Migration, 1961-92

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6. i Schematic View of Well-being According to Refugee Definitions /Oj" 6.2

Adaptation and Characteristics of Resettlement

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