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CIC Diversity Colume 6:2 Spring 2008 VOLUME 6:2 SPRING 2008 Guest Editor The Experiences of Audrey Kobayashi, Second Generation Queen’s University Canadians Support was also provided by the Multiculturalism and Human Rights Program at Canadian Heritage. Spring / printemps 2008 Vol. 6, No. 2 3 INTRODUCTION 69 Perceived Discrimination by Children of A Research and Policy Agenda for Immigrant Parents: Responses and Resiliency Second Generation Canadians N. Arthur, A. Chaves, D. Este, J. Frideres and N. Hrycak Audrey Kobayashi 75 Imagining Canada, Negotiating Belonging: 7 Who Is the Second Generation? Understanding the Experiences of Racism of A Description of their Ethnic Origins Second Generation Canadians of Colour and Visible Minority Composition by Age Meghan Brooks Lorna Jantzen 79 Parents and Teens in Immigrant Families: 13 Divergent Pathways to Mobility and Assimilation Cultural Influences and Material Pressures in the New Second Generation Vappu Tyyskä Min Zhou and Jennifer Lee 84 Visualizing Canada, Identity and Belonging 17 The Second Generation in Europe among Second Generation Youth in Winnipeg Maurice Crul Lori Wilkinson 20 Variations in Socioeconomic Outcomes of Second Generation Young Adults 87 Second Generation Youth in Toronto Are Monica Boyd We All Multicultural? Mehrunnisa Ali 25 The Rise of the Unmeltable Canadians? Ethnic and National Belonging in Canada’s 90 On the Edges of the Mosaic Second Generation Michele Byers and Evangelia Tastsoglou Jack Jedwab 94 Friendship as Respect among Second 35 Bridging the Common Divide: The Importance Generation Youth of Both “Cohesion” and “Inclusion” Yvonne Hébert and Ernie Alama Mark McDonald and Carsten Quell 99 The Experience of the Second Generation of 39 Defining the “Best” Analytical Framework Haitian Origin in Quebec for Immigrant Families in Canada Maryse Potvin Anupriya Sethi 104 Creating a Genuine Islam: Second Generation 42 Who Lives at Home? Ethnic Variations among Muslims Growing Up in Canada Second Generation Young Adults Rubina Ramji Monica Boyd and Stella Y. Park 110 Handing Down the Entrepreneurial Spirit from 47 Identity and Political Participation among the First to the Second Generation among Young Second Generation Immigrants Ethnic Minorities in Montréal Nicole Gallant Sébastien Arcand 50 Acculturation and Adaptation 115 Racialized Youth, Identity and the Labour of Immigrant Youth Market: The Vietnamese Second Generation John W. Berry Esther Rootham 54 Psychosocial Integration of Second and 118 Preliminary Understanding of Challenges in Third Generation Racialized Youth in Canada Entering the Job Market: Experience of New Nazilla Khanlou Generation Youth from Visible Minority 58 When Might the Two Cultural Worlds of Second Immigrant Families Generation Biculturals Collide? Miu Chung Yan, Sean Lauer and Surita Jhangiani Richard N. Lalonde and Benjamin Giguère 121 Striking a Balance in Canada’s Diversity 63 Six Major Characteristics of Second Generation Dialogue: The Case of the Portuguese- Youth in Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary Canadian Community Yvonne Hébert, Lori Wilkinson and Mehrunnisa Ali Fernando Nunes 126 77th Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Selected Sessions and Papers Related to Immigration, Diversity and Second Generation Youth, May 31 to June 8, 2008 Canadian Diversity is published by This edition of Canadian Diversity is supported by the Metropolis Project. Diversité canadienne est publié par Ce numéro de Diversité canadienne est commandité par le projet Metropolis. PRESIDENT / PRÉSIDENT The Honourable Herbert Marx / L’honorable Herbert Marx OUTGOING PRESIDENT / PRÉSIDENT SORTANT Canadian Diversity is a quarterly publication of the Association for Canadian Studies Maurice Basque (ACS). 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As those who examine social and economic influences in society, social scientists, policy analysts and, of course, community workers are able to understand that such mythology surrounding the second generation is deeply gendered and racialized; it also mythologizes a society in which everyone can make good based on simple hard work and adherence to an equally Audrey Kobayashi received her doctorate in 1983 from the University ofAUDREY California at KOBAYASHI Los Angeles. She taught Geography and East Asian Studies at McGill University from 1983 to 1994, after which she moved to Queen’s initially as University, Director of the Institute of Women’s Studies (1994 to 1999) and thereafter as Professor of In Geography. 1994, she was a Fulbright Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute in DC. Washington, Her research interests revolve around the question of how processes of human – differentiation race, class, gender, ability, national identity – emerge in a range of landscapes that includes homes, streets and She workplaces. places strong emphasis on public policy, and on the legal and frameworks that legislative enable social change. mythical set of dominant values. The other problem with any national mythology is that it is often“true” to the extent that it represents a realistic course for those for whom the“second-generation-made-good” story is attainable. National narratives socially construct the possibilities and the normative pathways to social inclusion and attainment. This volume reflects the work of social scientists and policy-research analysts coming
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