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  • Introduction

  • Jan Plamper, University of Limerick
  • Book:
    We Are All Migrants
    Published online:
    16 March 2023
    Print publication:
    23 March 2023, pp 1-9

  • Summary

    The introduction lays out the book’s conceptual framework. The point of departure is a performative concept of identity as lived and forever changing, so that multiple identities, including immigrant cultural identities, can coexist with German citizenship. After emphasizing that everyone’s ancestors crossed borders at some point, that we are all migrants, it proposes the term PlusGermans for more recent arrivals. It next sketches a concept of a collective national identity, a “New We.” The New We has two meanings: first, it designates all citizens without exception (there is no questioning of the Germanness of such “visible minorities” as Afro-Germans). Second, it proffers a symbolic celebration of this collective identity, the contents of which shall be determined – within the boundaries of the constitution, so that no one’s basic rights are violated – democratically. For instance, what should naturalization ceremonies look like? It ponders whether Germany is already postnational, but concludes that it is not on multiple levels, and that for progressives to avoid definining the civic nation, lest such defining end up in Nazism, leaves the field open to right-wing populists.

  • 27 - Cultivating Plurilingual Gardens

  • Edited by Gail Prasad, York University, Toronto, Nathalie Auger, Emmanuelle Le Pichon Vorstman, University of Toronto
  • Book:
    Multilingualism and Education
    Published online:
    02 June 2022
    Print publication:
    09 June 2022, pp 222-231

  • Summary

    Gail Prasad, daughter of an inter-racial, -cultural, -linguistic, and -religious couple, grew up with only one language, "the language of opportunity.” At an early age, she experienced systemic racism and exclusion, while navigating multilingual interactions as an act of resistance. Creativity and criticality are at the heart of her research investigating the coercive power relations among majoritarian and minoritized language users. She sees school as "a protected space for imagining and building more equitable societies.”

  • Pathways to suicidality across ethnic groups in Canadian adults: the possible role of social stress

  • D. E. Clarke, A. Colantonio, A. E. Rhodes, M. Escobar
  • Journal:
    Psychological Medicine / Volume 38 / Issue 3 / March 2008
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 November 2007, pp. 419-431
  • Background

    Ethnicity is an important determinant of mental health outcomes including suicidality (i.e. suicidal ideation and suicide attempt). Understanding ethnic differences in the pathways to suicidality is important for suicide prevention efforts in ethnically diverse populations. These pathways can be conceptualized within a social stress framework.

    Method

    The study examines ethnic differences in the pathways to suicidality in Canada within a social stress framework. Using data from the Canadian Community Health Survey Cycle 1.1 (CCHS 1.1) and path analysis, we examined the hypotheses that variations in (1) socio-economic status (SES), (2) sense of community belonging (SCB), (3) SES and SCB combined, and (4) SES, SCB and clinical factors combined can explain ethnic differences in suicidality.

    Results

    Francophone whites and Aboriginals were more likely to report suicidality compared to Anglophone whites whereas visible minorities and Foreign-born whites were least likely. Disadvantages in income, income and education, income and its combined effect with depression and alcohol dependence/abuse led to high rates even among the low-risk visible minority group. Indirect pathways for Asians differed from that of Blacks and South Asians, specifically through SCB. With the exception of SCB, Aboriginals were most disadvantaged, which exacerbated their risk for suicidality. However, their strong SCB buffered the risk for suicidality across pathways. Disadvantages in education, income and SCB were associated with the high risk for suicidality in Francophone whites.

    Conclusions

    Francophone whites and Aboriginals had higher odds of suicidality compared to Anglophone whites; however, some pathways differed, indicating the need for targeted program planning and prevention efforts.