Oxford Paper

"Abstract:
Nation building which has social inclusion as a desirable outcome must have the concept of diversity imbedded in its political framework.  However, in the Canadian case, diversity is paradoxically entangled between legal frameworks, welfare traditions and political privileges.  Yet, it has become fashionable for nations such as Canada to pose the notion of ‘diversity’ on the world stage as a national achievement which merits distinction.  This presentation of diversity as social achievement is premature and sits in tension with moral realities. In Canadian nation-building, diversity in is a national work in progress caught up in political ambivalence...." read more here

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