Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s allocation of the multiculturalism portfolio to conservative ACT Liberal senator Zed Seselja could reflect a number of motivations, both rational and perverse.

One of the many signs of the rightward creep of Western European politics is the recent unison of voices denouncing multiculturalism. German Chancellor Angela Merkel led off last October by claiming ...

As the European Union is struggling to deal with the migrant crisis (hundreds of migrants drowned in the Mediterranean), German Chancellor Angela Merkel is on record as saying “you can’t all come,” ...

Multiculturalism emerged in the late twentieth century as a policy paradigm recognising the rights of distinct cultural, ethnic or religious groups within liberal democracies. Its core aim is to ...

While quite diverse, Western political thought has long exhibited a rough thread of agreement—from the Enlightenment and The Federalist Papers to John Stuart Mill and the present—that liberty and ...

To many, multiculturalism as a political idea in Britain suffered a body blow in 2001. In the shock of 9/11 terrorism and after race riots in some northern English towns, many forecast that its days ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy in the Law School at the University at Buffalo will present a workshop, "Dialogue on Multicultural and Diversity Policies in Canada and the ...

Numerous heads of state including Nicolas Sarkozy (France), Angela Merkel (Germany), and David Cameron (UK) have recently proclaimed that multiculturalism has been an utter failure (see here). Many ...

‘Has multiculturalism been good or bad for Britain?’ It’s a question to which the answers have become increasingly polarised in recent years. For some, multiculturalism expresses the essence of a ...

The Multiculturalism Policy Index is a scholarly research project by professors Keith Banting and Will Kymlicka at Queen’s University that monitors multiculturalism policies in 21 Western democracies.

Few countries take multiculturalism as seriously as Korea does. While most countries have vague and ambiguous multicultural policies consisting of either forcing immigrants to assimilate to the local ...