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Identity Roots and Political Routes

Immigrant Youth and the Political Poetics of Multiculturalism

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Immigrant youth are the quintessentially global youth. Canada as case with which to explore the diversity of cultures, languages, ethnicities and religions that infiltrate the spaces and places that global youth travel, is unique as such diversity exists in few other international places. In effect, in no other period of history has diversity been “so extensive, so rapid, or raised such complex and difficult questions about citizenship, human rights, democracy, and education” (Banks, 2008, p. 132). In Canada, efforts to manage these issues are, in part, through the praxis of the official policy of multiculturalism. Canadian immigrant youth are poignantly impacted in this process as they negotiate their hybrid identities, manage the messages received in their formal schooling, experience the usual strains of adolescence and filter the influences which contribute to their social and political learning.

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Nabavi, M. (2012). Identity Roots and Political Routes. In: Wright, H.K., Singh, M., Race, R. (eds) Precarious International Multicultural Education. Transgressions, vol 84. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-894-0_9

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