TY - BOOK AU - Regan,Vera AU - Conrick,Maeve AU - Lemée,Isabelle TI - Multiculturalism and integration: Canadian and Irish experiences SN - 9780776619330 AV - F1035.A1 M835 2010eb U1 - 305.800971 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Ottawa [Ont.] PB - University of Ottawa Press KW - Multiculturalism KW - Ireland KW - Canada KW - Multiculturalisme KW - Irlande KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Emigration & Immigration KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Ethnische Identität KW - gnd KW - Multikulturelle Gesellschaft KW - Soziale Integration KW - Sprache KW - Irland KW - Kanada KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-266) and index; Introduction : multiculturalism and integration / Maeve Conrick and Vera Regan -- Part I : Multiculturalism, integration and linguistic diversity : Canadian and Irish models and experiences -- Immigration, langue et diversité ethnoculturelle en Ontario / Linda Cardinal, Nathalie Plante and Anik Sauvé -- Diachronic and synchronic perspectives on the French language in Canada : multilingualim, language, contact, norms and usage / Maeve Conrick and Vera Regan -- Immersion education in Ireland and Canada : L2 immersion adolescents in L1 Anglophone settings / Caitri︠ona Ni︠ Chasaide and Vera Regan -- The linguistic impact of target-language contact on the speech of Irish and Canadian learners of French L2 / Isabelle Lemée N2 - Multiculturalism and Integration provides new insights into the important issues of diversity, reasonable accommodation and identity construction in multicultural societies by examining the experiences of Canada and Ireland. While these two societies share many historical and cultural links, their differences help reveal the range of possible approaches to these important issues. Multicultural and multilingual diversity in contemporary Ireland are fairly recent phenomena, whereas Canada's policies and practices addressing cultural and linguistic diversity are several decades old. This basic dif UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1431361 ER -