MULTICULTURALISM @ 50: - Promoting Inclusion and Eliminating Racism

Against this unjust pressure for cultural assimilation, multiculturalism (legitimately • the failure to acknowledge the realities of global mobilities and appropriately) defended the value of ethnic and and ties, and hence the need for a more transnational religious diversity, and more specifically defended the or cosmopolitan perspective (e.g., Ghosh; Fleras); and idea that there were many differ. [...] This edition of Canadian Diversity, entitled “Multicultur- Abu-Laban, to provide the impetus for the creation of a alism @ 50: Promoting Inclusion and Eliminating Racism”, more solidaristic and equitable society? She finds hope in considers the evolution and public perceptions of Canadian the increased awareness, novel perspectives and reflective multiculturalism and explores the drive to reframe. [...] Augie Fleras calls for a question of multiculturalism’s potential to assist in the trans- more nuanced analysis of multiculturalism, rooted in the idea formative change required to meet the challenges of the 21st of seeing it through the lens of a riddle, a mystery, and an century. [...] 7 EVOLUTION & PROGRESS 8 MULTICULTURALISM: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Yasmeen Abu-Laban is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Citizenship and Human Rights at the Univer- sity of Alberta and a Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research The 50th anniversary of Canadian multiculturalism coincides They also include the job losses experienced particularly by with a pande. [...] She has been decorated as a Member of the Order of Canada, Officer or the Order of Quebec, and Officer of the Order of Montreal.