By the turn of the twenty-first century, toleration of cultural difference or multiculturalism, broadly defined, became a hallmark of liberal democratic countries. As the first country to declare multiculturalism national policy in 1971, Canada became a world-renowned example. O…
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Citizenship education plays a critical role in the development of civic attitudes and contributes to the appropriate delivery of a government's policy. However, there is a discrepancy in the literature in defining the meaning and understanding of citizenship concepts. This study…
In this dissertation, I investigate the ways in which the phenomenon of racial and cultural hybridity inform and alter the social, political and cultural fabric of three creole cities of significant colonial influence, namely Saint-Louis of Senegal, Saint-Pierre of Martinique an…
From Tradition to Brand examines the construction of a 'global' Korean culture in the late 20th and early 21st centuries through the imbrication of cultural production and information technologies. "Global Korea" seeks to transcend the geographic boundaries of the Republic of Ko…
Why do Muslim minorities perceive more societal hostility in European countries with greater multicultural commitments? This paper examines a unique cross-national survey of Muslims in four Western European countries and finds that personal experiences of discrimination and perc…
This dissertation critiques national English-Canadian newspaper representations of Muslims, Arabs and South Asians in the context of national narratives about Canada. I explore these tensions in the context of Canadian Literary Studies as a cultural field, exploring the gap prod…
Convivencia, or conviviality/coexistence, represents a pivotal node in Spanish ideologies of multiculturalism. Touted as the legacy of interreligious harmony in Al-Andalus (A.D. 711-1492), contemporary pedagogical convivencia involves policies, curricula, and activities which id…
This dissertation examines a period in recent Israeli history, when Jerusalem's King David Hotel was bustling, and hordes of tourists and locals flocked to the Old City. A moment on the eve of the new millennium, when visions of Christian pilgrims and other anticipated visitors …
The creation and evolution controversy is usually presented in terms of opposing scientific theories and is seldom viewed in its larger political context. The federal government has played a vital role in shaping the debate as it exists today. Not only has it ruled against creat…
The purpose of this research project was to compare the degree of multicultural representation among illustrations of foreign language textbooks from different types of educational systems (central, decentralized, or partially centralized). The study also investigated whether di…
This dissertation explores how complexities of Austrian identity are navigated within spaces of Egypt through gendered representations of travel during the latter half of the twentieth century and beginning of the twenty-first century. Specifically, I examine Ingeborg Bachmann's…
Colonial Algeria was the locus of a rich mingling of populations since the land had been inhabited by many different ethnic groups throughout its history. Successive occupations by Romans, Arabs, Jews, Turks and by colonists from Europe make the situation of Algeria different fr…
Multicultural education, often seen as a late twentieth-century phenomenon, had its roots eighty years ago in efforts to teach tolerance to children. While nativist and racist trends revived after World War I, a counter-trend also emerged. Beginning in the mid-1920s, thousands o…
The aim of this dissertation is to discuss the image of the city of Diyarbakır as emerging from Kurdish and Turkish literature throughout the twentieth century. Diyarbakır city represents a highly contentious place in socio-political and cultural terms for the Kurdish vis-à-vis …
Over the course of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, Wales experienced its most sustained and prononounced phase of demographic growth. Migration was a critical catalyst in this process, of which the most substantial contributors in terms of absolute volume wer…
Previous scholarship has highlighted the validity and reliability of a bidimensional acculturation model for migrants, allowing for simultaneous endorsement of one’s heritage and national culture. So far, however, no empirical research has explored whether the bidimensional accu…
The present study explores the cultural implications associated with the intensive presence of foreign labour in the modern and young UAE, with special focus on the potential impact on the cultural particularities forming national identity. To this end, the study examines the ev…
Multiculturalism Versus "Multi-national-ness " revisits the encounters of American writers with Soviet nationalities policy—Moscow's promise of a class-based solution to racial prejudice, coupled with its promotion of minority languages and cultures. The project revolves around …