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Multiculturalism in Canada and Italy

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Multiculturalism in Canada and Italy

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Markers of multiculturalism chosen:

1. The country has an official policy of multiculturalism.

2. The inclusion of ethnic representation in public media.

3. Affirmation action for the less disadvantaged immigrants.

4. Allowing dual citizenship.

Banting, K., & Kymlicka, W. (2013). Is there really a retreat from multiculturalism policies? New evidence from the multiculturalism policy index. Comparative European Politics, 11(5), 577-598.

In this article, the authors draw from empirical research the extent of civic integration and multiculturalism. The authors identify the reduced retreat of the multiculturalism policies mainly attributed to the rich historical immigration. Due to the existing foundational multiculturalism in the country, immigrants find it easy to fit in the Canadian society as compared to the others countries. From research, Keith and Will trace the multicultural co-existence between Canadians and foreigners allowing for tolerance between the two major groups. Keith and Will point that Canada has an existing official policy for multiculturalism which promotes the social cohesion. In contrast, Italy has no established multiculturalism policy and is a non-multicultural country. Throughout the past, Italy has established few policies that favor immigrants in the country. The main theme of the literature is to establish whether there is a downwash of multiculturalism policies. The article acknowledges, however, that Italy is trying to identify with high immigrant volume while Canada is considering modifying immigrant policies.

Will, K. (2012). Multiculturalism: success, Failure, and the Future. Washington, DC: Migration Policy Institute.

Will asserts in his compilation of the research by Irene Bloemraad that Canada remains the only country that endorses Multiculturalism policies constitutionally. As a result, immigrants can have dual citizenship where any immigrant can easily become a Canadian Citizen with legal rights of voting. According to Will, immigrants are appreciated as part of the major economic players from research and analysis of the data. Equally, the immigrant’s children enjoy academic acceptance with reduced cases of ethnic division. In contrast, the adoption of Multiculturalism policies has been reducing since the 1980s. Italy allows dual citizenship only to those of Italian descent. In addition, naturalization can guarantee one’s Italian citizenship beyond which everything else is illegal. The main aim of the article is to plot the success, failure, and the subsequent future of Multiculturalism. Multiculturalism in Canada is promising while Italy has a depressing Multiculturalism. The main methodology of establishing the factual claims is through research on national statistics.

Salway, S. M., Higginbottom, G., Reime, B., Bharj, K. K., Chowbey, P., Foster, C., ... & O'Brien, B. (2011). Contributions and challenges of cross-national comparative research in migration, ethnicity and health: insights from a preliminary study of maternal health in Germany, Canada and the UK. BMC Public Health, 11(1), 514.

The article addresses the disparities that arise from the existence of variant cultural ethnic groups particularly immigrants and the natives. As seen in the previous articles, Canada has reputable care for the immigrants. The authors after research explicate the unification in service providence to the people in Canada that rightly flow from the permission of inclusion of immigrant and ethnic groups in public media. The public media harmonize the balance between the minority and immigrants and the Canadians, which also addresses issues of equality and social justice. Contrastingly, Italy supports ethnic inclusion in public media but it is usually bigoted towards interculturalism thereby undermining multiculturalism. The main themes for the paper is contrasting the ideas of public equity, which juxtaposes Italy as having unfriendly immigrant treatment. The article mainly explores the presentation of different ethnicities. The authors conclude that due to the increasing immigrant problem, Italy is in the process of drafting policies, which will address immigrants in the country.

Shome, R. (2012). Mapping the Limits of Multiculturalism in the Context of Globalization. International Journal of Communication, 6, 22.

The article explores the inexorable issue cultural inequality with the light of global or transnational cultural analysis from the explication of research data in the Anglo-American and West countries. Shome argues that Canada has affirmative actions wired towards equality in the society such as employment equity. The affirmative action ensures that all people inclusive of the minority get equal chances in the sharing of the nation’s resources. In contrast, Italy has less concern for the immigrants resulting in reduced multiculturalism. The Italian society as the paper presents is monocultural with an ever-preserved self-image despite the increasing immigrants in the state. Any sympathetic relieve aid from the government to the immigrants is only offered in the line of humanitarian aid other than affirmative action for the weak. The author concludes that multiculturalism can only survive in an environment with rich cultural equality, which is actually the thesis. The main methodology of statistical collection is research and compilation of data from other researchers.