Abstract

The Multicultural Policy Index (MPI) is a scholarly research project that monitors the evolution of Multicultural policies across select western democracies over time. Through aggregating the scores of a range of public policy indicators representative of multiculturalism, the MPI is a useful and accurate measure of a nation-state’s approach towards cultural diversity that helps comparative research and contributes to the overall understanding of state-minority relations within modern trends of globalization and mass migration. Quantitative data and qualitative assessments of policy changes are collected from policy documents, program guidelines, legislation, government news resources, and secondary sources in three to four points in time (1980, 1990, 2000, and 2010) targeting three minority groups (immigrant minorities, historic national minorities and Indigenous peoples). Indicators are scored as no policy, partial policy and clear policy, and while they are not an exhaustive list of the measures of multiculturalism, they are an important starting point to test the recognition, accommodation and support of minorities within an immigrant-receiving nation-state.

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