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Social Cohesion and Diversity in Canada","","Explores how rising ethnic diversity in Western democracies produces two intersecting policy agendas: celebrating diversity through recognition and inclusion, and strengthening social cohesion through integration, solidarity, and shared national identity. Argues that political attention has historically shifted between these agendas, but the early 2000s show renewed integrationist momentum. 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Soroka, Richard Johnston and Keith Banting  \nT i es That Bind? Social Cohesion and Diversity in Canada  \nG ROWING ETHNIC DIVERSITY HAS GENERATED TWO INTERSECTING POLICY AGENDAS IN  \nWestern democracies.1 One agenda celebrates diversity. From this perspective, the most compelling challenges facing governments are to respect cultural differences, expand the room for minorities to express their distinctive cultures and construct new and more inclusive forms of citizenship. The second agenda focuses on social cohesion or social integration. From this perspective, the challenge before diverse societies is to reinforce the bonds of a common community. Here the need is to incorporate newcomers into the economic and social mainstream, to sustain a sense of mutual commitment or solidarity in times of need and to build a common national identity.  \nBoth of these agendas are important in diverse societies, and there is no logical reason why they cannot be pursued simultaneously. Nevertheless, the historical record in Western democracies is that political attention shifts back and forth between these intersecting agendas. Throughout much of history, ethnic diversity was seen primarily as a threat to social and political order, and it was actively discouraged by the state. Immigrants, national minorities and indigenous peoples were subject to a wide range of policies designed to assimilate them into the dominant cultural community or to marginalize them. In the last quarter of the twentieth century, however, many Western democracies embraced a more accommodating approach to ethnic diversity, adopting a wide range of programs designed to extend some level of public recognition and support for ethnocultural minorities to maintain and express their distinct identities and practices. With a few notable exceptions, this more multiculturalist approach represented the dominant trend in Western democracies in the closing decades of the last century.  \nStuart N . Soroka, Richard Johnston 562 and Keith Banting  \nIn the first decade of this new century, the balance of debate is shifting again. There is renewed concern about social integration in diverse societies. Historically, concern about integration tends to surface during periods of rapid social change, reflecting anxiety about the sources of social order and the avoidance of conflict. Many liberal democracies seem to be living through such a period now. In late 2005, riots and burning cars in Paris dramatized the failure to integrate the young from minority communities. A few weeks later, race riots broke out on Australia’s beaches, raising questions about that country’s reputation for peaceful multiculturalism. And then newspaper cartoons depicting Muhammad were published in Denmark and other European countries, sparking protests from Muslims around the world. In the spring of 2006, intense political battles were fought in the United States over immigration policy and the status of undocumented migrants, prompting marches by migrants and their supporters across the country. In this context, it is perhaps not surprising that commentators worry about the integration of minority communities into the mainstream of economic and social life.  \nWhile demonstrations and violent clashes provide the most dramatic evidence of tension, other commentators point to a quieter erosion of social integration in the face of diversity. In the United States, Samuel Huntington asks“Who are we?” and worries that American national unity is threatened by immigration and the twin “cults” of multiculturalism and diversity (2004) . In the Netherlands, and elsewhere in Europe, critics of multiculturalism insist that illiberal and intolerant strands within some minority communities are going unchallenged, weakening commitments to such values as gender equality and tolerance for diverse sexual preferences.2 In Britain, some analysts worry that the celebration of difference is corroding the social solidarity t","cbCaiayOQT1sWR1N","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiayOQT1sWR1N","pdf",347268,"English","# Policy agendas in diverse democracies\n## Celebrating diversity\n## Promoting social cohesion\n# Shifts in historical and recent debate\n## From assimilationist discouragement to multicultural programs\n## Renewed integrationist concerns in the 2000s\n# Evidence and critiques of integration\n## Public unrest and security agenda after 9/11\n## Critiques of multiculturalism and welfare-state solidarity\n# Policy directions and emerging models\n## Civic integration and language/norm adoption\n## Retreat from multiculturalism and return of assimilation","[{\"question\":\"What are the two intersecting policy agendas discussed in the document?\",\"answer\":\"One agenda celebrates diversity through recognizing cultural differences and enabling minorities to express distinct identities. The other focuses on social cohesion by integrating newcomers into mainstream economic and social life and building shared national identity.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the document say attention shifts between diversity and cohesion agendas?\",\"answer\":\"Historically, ethnic diversity has often been treated as a threat to social and political order, then later addressed through more accommodating multicultural approaches. In more recent decades, renewed concerns about integration have reoriented political debate back toward cohesion.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of events and debates are presented as evidence of integration tensions?\",\"answer\":\"The text cites riots and unrest in places such as Paris, Australia, Denmark, and the United States, alongside broader critiques that multiculturalism can weaken tolerance, gender equality, or solidarity, and that security concerns after 9/11 intensify integration pressures.\"}]","Ties That Bind? 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