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      Multiculturalism and identity in Canada : a case-study of Ukrainian-Canadians

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      Date
      2006-03-08
      Author
      Woods, Eric Taylor
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      The thesis provides a political analysis of a position paper on government programming recently adopted by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) – a national ethno-cultural organisation that ostensibly represents over one million Canadians of Ukrainian heritage and a historically important player in the development of multiculturalism in Canada. The impetus for such an analysis is to explore whether there are alternative policy directions available to the UCC that could satisfy its mandate developing and enhancing the Ukrainian-Canadian community while taking into account the reality that Ukrainian-Canadians culturally resemble more and more the broader Canadian society. In a wide-ranging analysis that criticizes both, official Canadian multiculturalism – for falling short in meeting its commitment to cultural pluralism – and the UCC – for upholding a position that relies on a static or retrograde version of culture, the thesis makes the case for a multiculturalism that can recognize cultural differences while allowing for change. The thesis is significant because it asks relevant questions concerning how multiculturalism in Canada takes into account an increasingly heterogeneous citizenship characterized by cultural change. In this regard, the thesis is of particular importance to Canadians who claim a multiplicity of cultures rather than a single ethnicity and yet still express a desire to be included in the discourse on Canadian national identity.
      Degree
      Master of Arts (M.A.)
      Department
      Political Studies
      Program
      Political Studies
      Supervisor
      Kordan, Bohdan
      Committee
      MacLeod, Allan; Garcea, Joseph
      Copyright Date
      March 2006
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-04122006-150407
      Subject
      Pluralism
      Inclusive Citizenship
      Social Binary
      Belonging
      reactive culturalism
      Cultural Change
      Integration
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