A study of minority and ethnic groups (native and immigrant) within Canadian "multicultural" society. The course also includes a review of Canada's immigration policies and their effects on Canada's multicultural landscape.
Course Instructor
Charles Adeyanju
Adeyanju, C. T. (2026). Opportunity, racialization, and mobility: Black continental African immigrants in Prince Edward Island. Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-026-01286-x
Bauder, H. (2008). Immigration debate in Canada: How newspapers reported, 1996–2004. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 9, 289–310. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-008-0062-z
Coloma, R. S. (2013). “Too Asian?” On racism, paradox, and ethno-nationalism. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 34(4), 579–598. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2013.822620
De Souza, L. (2018). The ambivalent model minority: Japanese Canadians and Canadian multiculturalism. OMNES: The Journal of Multicultural Society, 8(3), 1–29. https://doi.org/10.14431/omnes.2018.07.8.3.1
Denis, J. S. (2015). Contact theory in a small-town settler-colonial context: The reproduction of laissez-faire racism in Indigenous–White Canadian relations. American Sociological Review, 80(1), 218–242. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122414564998
Fraser, N. (1995). From redistribution to recognition? Dilemmas of justice in a “post-socialist” age. New Left Review, 1(212), 68–93.
Hawkins, N. (2009). Becoming a model minority: The depiction of Japanese Canadians in The Globe and Mail, 1946–2000. Canadian Ethnic Studies, 41(1–2), 137–154.
Liu, Q. (2026). The sense of being undeserving and the legal consciousness of Chinese immigrants in Canada. Law & Society Review, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1017/lsr.2026.10102
Madibbo, A. (2020). Reverse inclusion: Black Francophones at the intersection of anti-Black racism and linguicism. Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 57(3), 334–355.
Ng, I., Hilario, C., & Salma, J. (2025). “If I stay quiet, the only person that gets hurt is me”: Anti-Asian racism and the mental health of Chinese Canadian youth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 57(1), 33–46. https://doi.org/10.1177/08445621241289515
Satzewich, V. (2000). Whiteness limited: Racialization and the social construction of “peripheral Europeans.” Social History/Histoire sociale, 33(66), 271–289.
Satzewich, V. (2014). Canadian visa officers and the social construction of “real” spousal relationships. Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 51(1), 1–21.