Surveying multiculturalism research

It is intended to provide a syn- thesis of all major findings on multiculturalism in the Working Papers Series of the Metropolis Centres in Canada, and to list in an annotated bibli- ography the main points of each of the working papers on multiculturalism. [...] Although the authors identified a sense of isolationism and segregation in the Sri Lankan Tamil community, this was caused by a lack of confidence in the strength of multiculturalism; the rhetoric of the policy proved to be far stronger than the actual practice. [...] It would seem from the articles by Ley and Sandercock, Dickout and Winkler that the danger of ethnic group isolation results not from the practice of active multiculturalism, but from a half-implemented weak multiculturalism that does not live up to the language of human rights and equality contained in the policy itself. [...] The gap between weak and strong multiculturalism rests in many cases on the delivery of services to the community, and to the 1 . [...] The first, Sandercock argues, must move forward in tandem with the values and practice of human rights; the second is based on the rec- ognition that ethnic groups have a right not only to belong, but also to own, to freely inhabit, to shape, to direct, and to (in short) behave in the city as those who currently enjoy “rights to the city.” However, at its core, if multiculturalism is to succeed, i