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Population movements and migration are major features of our time. The number of migrants and displaced peoples in the world is estimated to have more than doubled since 1975, and around 175 million people currently live in a country in which they were not born (Rygiel 2010). This does not include the displaced populations within national borders in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East; about 20 millions of them live under the protection of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. If globalization has brought together people through the free flow of capital, offshore production, marketing, and cultural goods and products, it has, at the same time, produced large-scale displacement and dispersion of peoples. All this raises pressing questions about integration, citizenship, equity, human rights, diversity, accommodation, and security.
Large parts of this chapter are taken from the author’s keynote address at the Trudeau Foundation’s eighth conference on public policy, Halifax, November 17–19, 2011.
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Moghissi, H. (2016). Multiculturalism and Belonging: Muslims in Canada. In: Ennaji, M. (eds) New Horizons of Muslim Diaspora in North America and Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137554963_6
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