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Interculturalism has been praised for some time, particularly in Quebec, as a better model of ethnocultural diversity management. Though it is said to be more inclusive & respectful of ethnocultural minority claims, it does little to curb the sociocultural hegemony of Eurodescendant majorities. It fails as a result both to renew democracy & develop the foundations of a more generous & open citizenship. On the basis of a critical examination of the main tenets of interculturalist discourse, this paper proposes a theoretical & normative critique toward an alternative conception of the restrictive social philosophy that currently informs the management of ethnocultural diversity in Quebec. Adapted from the source document.

Discourses from interviews with 61 community activists in multiethnic & racialized Montreal neighborhoods on citizenship issues were compared with citizenship discourse in Canada & Quebec. In light of the changed nature & shifting sources of immigration in the 1990s, the requirements for Canadian citizenship have been tightened in order to strengthen social cohesion & defuse Quebec's sovereignist claims. On the other hand, Quebec seeks to consolidate the unity of its political community & create a sense of belonging. Per qualitative analysis of the interview, the activists still identified with their countries of origin, yet had to consider their state-legislated ethnic identity either by adamantly rejecting it or adopting it. They felt treated like second-class Canadian or Quebec citizens, but were more affiliated with Quebec than Canada for civic identity, even while rejecting Quebec's sovereignist claims. There was a gap between their understanding of Canadian citizenship & the government's, especially in terms of dual citizenship, discrimination, & the imposition of the French language in Quebec. 1 Appendix, 47 References. M. Pflum

Discourses from interviews with 61 community activists in multiethnic & racialized Montreal neighborhoods on citizenship issues were compared with citizenship discourse in Canada & Quebec. In light of the changed nature & shifting sources of immigration in the 1990s, the requirements for Canadian citizenship have been tightened in order to strengthen social cohesion & defuse Quebec's sovereignist claims. On the other hand, Quebec seeks to consolidate the unity of its political community & create a sense of belonging. Per qualitative analysis of the interview, the activists still identified with their countries of origin, yet had to consider their state-legislated ethnic identity either by adamantly rejecting it or adopting it. They felt treated like second-class Canadian or Quebec citizens, but were more affiliated with Quebec than Canada for civic identity, even while rejecting Quebec's sovereignist claims. There was a gap between their understanding of Canadian citizenship & the government's, especially in terms of dual citizenship, discrimination, & the imposition of the French language in Quebec. 1 Appendix, 47 References. M. Pflum

The crisis apparent in modern liberal democratic societies is said to be only the product of history's natural dynamics; an ability to understand history's logic has caused current events to be misinterpreted. Liberalism is said to be ambivalent in character, torn between individual sovereignty & the sovereignty associated with the political community. The connection between liberalism, the market, & subjective singularity is examined in terms of the individualist reconfiguration of the social, market logic, & exclusion. It is argued that modern societies are constrained by historical logic; a loss of meaning has occurred, & the political community's tensions have intensified. Modern societies' inability to cope with ideological & conceptual contradictions has created the impression that social cohesion is threatened. Adapted from the source document.

Anxieties over the Islamic face covering and over the proper management of otherness in liberal democracies seem to have reached a new peak with the introduction of legislation banning the burka in France and Belgium, and recent proposals for similar statutes in Quebec. What assumptions are contained within Western secularism and revealed in these attempts at legislating women's religious clothing? This book presents a collection of essays which take secularism/laicite and the regulation of public expressions of religious commitment as their points of departure, exploring the issues these rai