Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reflecting on Multiculturalism at its Semicentennial: Over the Hill or Just Getting Started? / Yasmeen Abu-Laban , Alain-G. Gagnon, Arjun Tremblay -- Multiculturalism and Citizenization: Past and Future / Will Kymlicka -- Multiculturalism and Inclusive Democracy: Canadian Multiculturalism and Immigrant Citizenship / Irene Bloemraad -- Multicultural Citizenship in Singapore / Terri-Anne Teo -- Multiculturalism and Decolonization / Avigail Eisenberg -- Multiculturalism in the Post-Colony: Shadows of Agamben in South Africa / Amanda Gouws -- Language and Multiculturalism in the United States / Daniel Freeman-Maloy and Raymond Tatalovich -- Framing Diversities: European approaches to Minorities-within Minorities / Dolores Morondo Taramundi -- Interculturalism and the Fair Management of Diversity in Multinational Democracies: The Contribution of Quebec-Canada Dynamics / Félix Mathieu -- Multiculturalism: The Place of Religion and State-Religion Connections / Tariq Modood -- Hinduizing Nation: Shifting Grounds of Secularism, Diversity and Citizenship / Mohita Bhatia -- Oh Canada, Your Home's on Native Land: Narratives of the Missing in a Multicultural Home / Kiera L. Ladner, Hope Ace, Marcus Closen and Dane Monkman -- Black Lives Matter, Social Justice, and the Limits of Multiculturalism / Debra Thomson -- Hungary and the Paradoxes of Illiberal Anti-Multiculturalism / Zsolt Körtvélyesi -- Rethinking Multiculturalism under a Pandemic Crisis / Anna Trianddafyllidou -- Imperiled Multiculturalism? COVID-19, Racism and Nation-Building in Australia / Tim Soutphommasane -- Immigration, Multiculturalism and Tolerance: Canada's Two Images / Paul May -- Conclusion: Towards a New Diversity Politics for the 21st Century? Building on Multiculturalism through Solidarity / Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Alain-G. Gagnon, Arjun Tremblay.

"In Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative Perspective a group of leading scholars come together in a multidisciplinary collection to assess multiculturalism through an international comparative perspective. Multiculturalism today faces challenges like never before, through the concurrent rise of populism and white supremacist groups, and contemporary social movements mobilizing around alternative ideas of decolonization, anti-racism, and national self-determination Taking these challenges head on, and with the backdrop that the term multiculturalism originated in Canada before going global, this collection of chapters presents a global comparative view of multiculturalism, through both empirical and normative perspectives, with the overarching aim of comprehending multiculturalism's promise, limitations, contemporary challenges, trajectory and possible futures. Collectively, the chapters provide the basis for a critical assessment of multiculturalism's first fifty years, as well as vital insight into whether multiculturalism is best equipped to meet the distinct challenges characterizing this juncture of the 21st century. With coverage including the Americas, Europe, Oceania, Africa and Asia, and thematic coverage of citizenship, religion, security, gender, Black Lives Matter and the post-pandemic order, Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative Perspective presents a comprehensively global collection that is indispensable reading for scholars and students of diversity in the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher