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The Chinese in Canada
Second Edition
Peter Li
1998

First published in 1988 and subsequently translated into Chinese, The Chinese in Canada was written to provide an overview of the history of the Chinese in this country, and to explain how and why institutional racism against the Chinese developed. Since 1988 there have been many changes in the Chinese Canadian community and in Canadian society. Among these changes are the large increase in immigration from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China, the expansion of Chinese immigrant enclaves in Canadian cities such as Toronto and Vancouver and the rise of Asian investment capital into Canadian business and real estate developments.

The Chinese in Canada, has been completely rewritten and updated to cover the events of the past ten years, and several new topics and issues are discussed in this edition. These new topics include the dramatic increase in the immigration of Chinese from Hong Kong since the mid-1980s, the expansion of Chinese investment capital through the Business Immigrant Program, the economic and social changes in cities like Toronto and Vancouver as a result of increased Chinese immigration, and racism and current politics in Canada.

The Making of Post-War Canada
Peter Li
1996

As Canada enters the twenty-first century, the post-war baby-boomers are quickly approaching middle age. This generation, born and raised after the end of the Second World War, has witnessed the consolidation of corporate capitalism, the expansion of the wage labour market, and the restructuring of industries and occupations. Social changes are also conspicuous: women's entry into the paid labour market, a decline in the Canadian fertility rate and family size, the rise of the Canadian welfare state, the aging of the Canadian population, increased immigration to Canada, and the emergence of collective claims in Canadian society. Recognition of such changes as they unfold is often elusive, especially for those accustomed to a continuing social order's apparently natural features. The Making of Post-War Canada documents major changes in post-war Canadian society, and provides theoretical coherence to what appears to be haphazard and disjointed social trends. Transformation of the economic order began with the growth of advanced capitalism and its streamlining of production, consolidation of ownership, and intensified wage labour markets. Understanding this transformation provides a basis for understanding other social and demographic changes that have occurred in Canadian society.

Race and Ethnic Relations in Canada
Edited by Peter Li
1990

A collection of twelve essays by leading Canadian sociologists, this textbook covers a range of subjects pertaining to race and ethnicity: a demographic overview; immigration policy; human rights; policies on Native peoples; multiculturalism; the politics of language; occupational differentials among ethnic groups; ethnic identity and race relations; language and ethnicity; the political economy of race and ethnicity; and finally, gender and class. As Li notes in his preface, 'it is impossible to understand race and ethnic relations in Canada without finding out how state policies influence these relationships and how academics theorize about them. This book makes an important contribution towards such understanding.

Contents
Introduction

1. Race and Ethnicity - Peter S. Li
2. A Demographic Overview of Racial and Ethnic Groups in Canada - Warren E. Kalbach
3. Immigration and the Canadian Ethnic Mosaic – Jean Leonard Elliott and Augie Fleras
4. Ethnicity and Human Rights in Canada: Constitutionalizing a Hierarchy of Minority Rights - Evelyn Kallen
5. Policies and Indian People in Canada – James Frideres
6. Multiculturalism in Canada: A Sociological Perspective - Lance W. Roberts and Rodney A. Clifton
7. The Politics of Language - Wilfrid B. Denis
8. The Vertical Mosaic Revisited: Occupational Differentials among Canadian Ethnic Groups – Hugh Lautard and Neil Guppy
9. Studies of Ethnic Identity and Race Relations - K. Victor Ujimoto
10. Language and Ethnicity: Canadian Aspects – John De Vries
11. The Political Economy of Race and Ethnicity – Vic Satzewich
12. Theorizing Connections: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class - Daiva K. Stasiulus

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