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irina Schmitt

Irina Schmitt

Senior lecturer

irina Schmitt

Current Debates on Citizenship and Belonging: Multiculturalism, Gender and Sexuality

Author

  • Irina Schmitt
  • Elke Winter

Editor

  • Klaus-Dieter Ertler
  • Hartmut Lutz

Summary, in English

Debates around gender and sexuality currently inform important negotiations of citizenship and belonging in Canada. In this chapter, we broadly outline main areas of research in the social sciences for Canadianists from German-speaking countries. We focus on two separate but interrelated themes that have recently gained a particular salience in Canadian society and politics: 1) Gender and the ostensible ‘clash’ between minority religions and multiculturalism, and 2) sexuality and group rights, including recent examples from the fields of immigration and education. These debates highlight how closely related issues of multiculturalism, gender, and sexuality are, as well as how important they are for the continuous re-evaluation of notions of citizenship and belonging from a feminist point of view.

Publishing year

2009

Language

English

Pages

129-153

Publication/Series

Canada in Grainau/ Le Canada à Grainau. Canadian Studies/Études canadiennes: The State of the Art

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Peter Lang Publishing Group

Topic

  • Gender Studies

Keywords

  • feminism
  • Canada
  • multiculturalism
  • religion
  • gender
  • education
  • sexuality

Status

Published

Project

  • “Transfer of Cultural Praxes and Norms: Allochthonous and Autochthonous Youths between Parents, School, and Peer Group”

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-3-631-58942-7