Home and Native Land takes its vastly important topic and places it under a new, penetrating light—shifting focus from the present grounds of debate onto a more critical terrain.

The book’s articles, by some of the foremost critical thinkers and activists on issues of difference, diversity, and Canadian policy, challenge sedimented thinking on the subject of multiculturalism. Not merely “another book” on race relations, national identity, or the post 9-11 security environment, this collection forges new and innovative connections by examining how multiculturalism relates to issues of migration, security, labour, environment/nature, and land. These novel pairings illustrate the continued power, limitations, and, at times, destructiveness of multiculturalism, both as policy and as discourse.

May Chazan is Canada Research Chair in Gender and Feminist Studies at Trent University and is a research associate with the Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

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Lisa Helps is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, University of Toronto.

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Anna Stanley is a lecturer in Human Geography, in the Department of Geography, at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), in Galway, Ireland.

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Sonali Thakkar is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York.

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“A critical collection that makes a significant contribution to current discussions about multiculturalism as policy and discourse in Canada. This book develops the important idea that the organization of difference and belonging in Canada is an ongoing colonial project that requires the regulation of indigenous peoples, lands, and racialized others under a national narrative of white settler multiculturalism.”

Eve Haque, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University

“With ‘multiculturalism’—in its official and popular forms—having become hotly contested in the post 9/11 world, the practices this discourse engenders will be the site of intense struggles over the meaning of race, diversity, terror and poverty. Drawing attention to the critical role multiculturalism has played in the global rise of neo-liberalism, this book provides valuable insights into some of the most controversial debates that are set to shape the foreseeable future.”

Sunera Thoban, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, UBC, and author of Exalted Subjects: Studies In the Making of Race and Nation in Canada

“This book compels readers to interrogate the regulatory forces of multiculturalism from various historical and contemporary, activist, disciplinary, and theoretical lenses. It invites and provokes readers to consider alternatives to current hegemonies, and should be read by both critics and supporters of multiculturalism.”

Rita Kaur Dhamoon, Department of Philosophy & Political Science, University of the Fraser Valley, and author of Identity/Difference Politics