Multicultural Recognition Research Articles

Jewish fish (ΙΧΘΥΣ) in post-supersessionist water: Messianic Judaism within a post-supersessionistic paradigm

This article defines, explains and argues for the necessity of a post-supersessionistic hermeneutical posture towards the New Testament. The post-supersessionistic reading of the New Testament takes the Jewish nature of the apostolic documents seriously, and has as its goal the correction of the sin of supersessionism. While supersessionism theologically is repudiated in most corners of the contemporary church through official church documents, the practise of reading the New Testament continues to exhibit supersessionistic tendencies and outcomes. The consequence of this predominant reading of the New Testament is the continued exclusion of Jewish ethnic identity in the church. In light of the growing recognition of multiculturalism and contextualisation on the one hand, and the recent presence of a movement within the body of Messiah of Jewish believers in Jesus on the other, the church’s established approach to reading Scripture that leads to the elimination of ethnic identity must be repudiated alongside its post-supersessionist doctrinal statements. This article defines terms, explains consequences and argues for a renewed perspective on the New Testament as an ethnic document; such a perspective will promote the church’s cultivation of real embodied ethnic particularity rather than either a pseudo-interculturalism or the eraser full ethnicity.

Dual identity and immigrants’ protest against discrimination: The moderating role of diversity ideologies

Discrimination of immigrant groups is an important social problem in many societies around the world. This study examines the moderating role of cultural diversity beliefs on the relation between dual identity and the intention to protest against immigrants’ discrimination. An experimental study was conducted among national samples of the three main immigrant-origin groups in the Netherlands. It was found that dual identity predicted the intention to protest against discrimination more strongly within a context of multicultural recognition compared to a context of assimilation or interculturalism. This demonstrates that multicultural recognition is a facilitating condition for dual identifiers to get involved in collective action for social change.

El manejo indígena del mundo global: el caso de los tikuna de Yahuarcaca

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 8.000000pt; font-family: 'CharisSIL';">Los indígenas tikuna de Yahuarcaca (Leticia, Amazonas) se enfrentan a las transformaciones sociales, económicas y culturales características de la globalización, bajo una lógica propia de apropiación y diferenciación. A pesar de los discursos y prácticas sobre el desarrollo sostenible a través del reconocimiento multicultural, las formas de articulación de las comunidades indígenas al Estado y al mercado son objeto de una negociación permanente a través de los muchos proyectos que llegan a estas comunidades. Los proyectos pueden traer el desarrollo deseado por las comunidades, pero también los problemas que vienen asociados a él, como las desigualdades económicas, la dependencia institucional, y en general, la pérdida de autonomía e identidad. Frente a ello, el discurso de la etnicidad se vuelve una herramienta política con la que concertar o negociar el poder de su autonomía y los lazos de su dependencia. Esta negociación no se juega tanto a nivel de discurso político en el sentido occidental, como de prácticas concretas para “guardar lo propio”. La lucha por la autonomía se mueve entonces entre el manejo de lo propio y la apropiación de lo ajeno. Por eso el reto es doble: no solo se hace necesario que los indígenas se adapten creativamente a la coyuntura nacional e internacional actual, sino también que los miembros de las organizaciones nacionales e internacionales se adapten a las lógicas culturales propias de los pueblos indígenas. </span></p></div></div></div>

Exploratory Research on Marriage Migrant Recognition for Unmarried Vietnamese Women

This study explored general marriage migration for 180 unmarried Vietnamese immigrant women and identified differences in recognition after the choice of marriage. The methods used were frequency analysis, kai verification, and independent t verification were conducted. The findings were as follows. First, unmarried Vietnamese women showed a receptive attitude towards marriage migration with the less-educated group more likely to opt for marriage migration. Economic benefit expectations topped other factors in regards to the image of marriage migrant women and motivation. Dual national identity benefits were also indicated. Second, the perception of external and illusionary images of the spouses of marriage migrant women was low; however, the perception of good occupations and gender equality was high. A vague expectancy of marriage was also found. The perception was high that children from multi-cultural families would be global bilingual talents and adjust to school; however, the perception of social discrimination or prejudice was low. The perception of social discrimination was low concerning the perception of social integration towards marriage migrant women; however, the perception of identities, cultural differences and employment was present. By contrast, the group opting for marriage migration showed a significantly low perception of social discrimination and difficulty in employment. The suggested measures are to regulate and maintain forms of marriage type, reinforce prior training systems for Vietnamese immigrant women (and spouses), enhance multicultural recognition, and supplement multicultural policies.

Hong Kong Muslim representations in Cantonese media: an Oriental Orientalism?

The introduction of anti-racism legislation and post-colonial debate on Hong Kong identity has developed a stronger recognition of multiculturalism in Hong Kong. Muslims, who have had a continuous presence in the territory for over 170 years, are, however, still little understood. This paper looks at the ways in which local Cantonese media represents Muslims and how this representation continues to obscure Islam and present it as an oriental “other.” Representation of Muslims in the Media analysed is uneven with Chinese Muslims frequently being absent. In contrast, Islamic issues are often discussed by Muslims with a limited competence in Cantonese, or by non-Muslim professionals with a limited understanding of religious issues and vocabulary. Muslims and Islam, as a result, continue to be an overlooked part of the Hong Kong identity.

대학생의 다문화가정 학생 대상 멘토링 경험이 다문화 인식에 미치는 효과

The purpose of the study is to investigate how the mentoring experiences of college students on multicultural families students, one of the multicultural education method, effects on their recognition on multiculture. For the purpose, we reviewed some leading researches on the concepts of multicultural mentoring and the effects of mentoring. And, we surveyed and analyzed the level of multicultural recognition in terms of before and after of 200 students in an university and an university of education located in K area participated in multicultural mentoring when it was performed from June, 2012 to January, 2013. The summary of analyzed results are as follows. First, the level of multicultural recognition of students was improved significantly through the multiculture mentoring experiences, and it had a significant influence on all sub areas of multicultural recognition(acceptance on multiculture, sensitivity on multiculture, openess on multiculture). Second, the level of multicultural recognition of all mentors in both university and university of education was improved significantly in analyzing the change of multicultural recognition upon college types. Third, the multiculture mentoring experiences had an positive influence on the improvement of the recognition level of both boy students and girl students, but it was improved significantly for only girl students. The result shows that there are some differences upon sex types. Fourth, there were some differences for the sub areas of multicultural recognition when we looked into the influences on the change of the level of multicultural recognition for the multiculture mentoring experiences. but the level of multicultural recognition was improved significantly regardless of multiculture mentoring experiences. As a result, the research shows that the multicultural mentoring can be the effective way improve the multicultural competency on multiculture education of students though there were some differences upon college, sex types and mentoring experience.

Cross-Language Poetics: Proposal for an Interdisciplinary Research Program

For creative writers and for readers, opportunities to work with language in ways that engage two linguistic systems and/or two writing systems continue to expand with the growing influence of international and regional lingua francas. At the same time, we have witnessed the continuing development of literary creation in languages with fewer speakers, even in communities facing the outright erosion and replacement of their language. Alongside the tendencies of globalization, literature has also become more diverse, a new recognition of multilingualism and multiculturalism emerging among writers and readers alike. The special circumstances of composition and understanding that the different kinds of language and cultural interaction highlight also present us with an opportunity to study what it is that is fundamental in verbal art. After reviewing three historical examples of European origin (in Section 2) we will turn our attention to problems of language, writing system and poetry in East Asia (in Section 3). The examples from history will help us to put the current situation of multilingual and multicultural contexts for literature into a broader perspective. This is will allow us to return to consider a proposal for research on cross-language poetics.

Negotiating Ethnic Recognition Systems in the UK: the soft pan-ethnic identifications of Latin American migrants in the north of England

Despite aiming to provide minority ethnic groups with material equality and protection from discrimination, the British ethno-cultural system of recognition has perpetuated social differentiation which is difficult to transcend. Drawing from interviews with informants and 10 in-depth case studies with Latin American and Latino-British families in the Yorkshire and Greater Manchester regions of the north of England, the paper explores the fraught relationship between these migrants and their multicultural framework of incorporation. Significant here are the contested understandings of the Latin American collective identity, combined with the diversity of migration trajectories, socioeconomic backgrounds and life-course needs of migrants and their children, which contribute to soft pan-ethnic identifications among the participant population. It is argued that, by encouraging migrants and their descendants to seek recognition through absolute ethnic differences, multicultural recognition systems can reproduce colonial categories and fail to respond to the diverse social and life-course needs of migrants.

Emergence in Re-emergent Indians: Para-history of The Re-Emergent Rankülche Indigenous People

In this article I explore some blind points, lacunae and crevices that interrupt the sociohistorical process of the so-called reemergence of the Rankülche Indigenous People. I contend that this task can only be done by adopting a fetishistic and phantomatic perspective which can acknowledge zones of emergence in social action, historical process and identity. The evidence for this argument is provided by a parahistory, a kind of phenomenology of the workings of fetishes and ghosts through the materiality of things such as map textures, hidden obvious images, and loose words that are left over by “reemergent human agency.” In this search for a critical chord to the politics of multicultural recognition different from the one based on a standard constructionist approach, I relate the “stranger realities than newer data” discovered to the idea of the politics that can be elicitedfrom the very derogative accusation of “indio politico” to Rankülche activists.

Geopathology on May Day: Expressions of Culture on Hawai‘i's Elementary School Stages

In Hawai‘i's elementary schools, May Day programs feature children adorned with flower leis, singing and dancing hula about Hawaiian culture and performing traditions from major ethnic groups who settled the islands. Using the lens of geopathology, this research questions how various groups of residents long for belonging and struggle for emplacement through performances of culture on May Day. Following an ethnographic tradition, a collaborative research team attended May Day programs at elementary schools and interviewed a range of students, elders, teachers, administrators, parents, May Day coordinators, and arts specialists. The researchers processed themes in personal terms using auto-ethnographic reflections and original performances to bring multiple perspectives into dialogue. This critical discussion reveals four perceptions of May Day expressed by the study's participants: (a) American assimilation, (b) visitor attraction, (c) multicultural recognition, and (d) Hawaiian preservation.

다문화상담자 교육 콘텐츠 개발을 위한 기초연구 : 다문화 현장 전문가 FGI를 중심으로

The purpose of this study was to examine the problems of a multi-cultural family counseling as a support for the families in order to suggest efficient education programs for counselors. For these reasons, this study used interviews of three focus-groups consisting of 11 experts each other, and then the qualitative data was analyzed. The analysis of data was conducted by two doctors and one master and investigated by a multi-cultural counselor. As a result, 5 categories, 13 sub-categories, and 46 definitions were identified. Each five categories were the problems of multi-cultural counseling, effective multi-cultural counseling skill, the qualities of a counselor with multi-cultural attitude and recognition, multi-cultural knowledge factors and effective teaching methods. At last, implications, practical uses, and suggestions for future researches were also discussed in this study.

Is everyone Irish on St Patrick's Day? Divergent expectations and experiences of collective self‐objectification at a multicultural parade

We examine experiences of collective self-objectification (CSO) (or its failure) among participants in a 'multicultural' St Patrick's Day parade. A two-stage interview study was carried out in which 10 parade participants (five each from ethnic majority and minority groups) were interviewed before and after the event. In pre-event interviews, all participants understood the parade as an opportunity to enact social identities, but differed in the category definitions and relations they saw as relevant. Members of the white Irish majority saw the event as being primarily about representing Ireland in a positive, progressive, light, whereas members of minority groups saw it as an opportunity to have their groups' identities and belonging in Ireland recognized by others. Post-event interviews revealed that, for the former group, the event succeeded in giving expression to their relevant category definitions. The latter group, on the other hand, cited features of the event such as inauthentic costume design and a segregated structure as reasons for why the event did not provide the group recognition they sought. The accounts revealed a variety of empowering and disempowering experiences corresponding to the extent of enactment. We consider the implications in terms of CSO, the performative nature of dual identities, as well as the notion of multicultural recognition.

A Study on the Recognition and Belief of Multiculturalism in Korea

A Study on the Recognition and Belief of Multiculturalism in Korea

The effects of integration and generation of immigrants on language and numeracy achievement

In many Western countries the pressure exerted on immigrants to integrate has become intense in recent years. Efforts to preserve their ethnic identity through multicultural recognition has now been replaced by the requirements of active civic participation and assimilation. Of course integration is considered important not only for the immigrant parents but also for their children. The central question in this article is whether there is a relationship between the degree of integration of the immigrant parents and the generation of their children on the one hand and the level of language and numeracy achievement of the children on the other. To answer this question we use data collected in 2008 from the Dutch COOL5–18 cohort study. The information comes from more than 9000 immigrant and 16,000 indigenous children and their parents. The results show that as immigrant parents are better integrated and their children are of later generations, the language and numeracy skills of the children improve, though there remain large differences in achievement between different ethnic groups.

Is Religious Freedom Impossible in Canada?

The idea of religious freedom is not new in Canadian law or wider public discourse, although it has taken on a life of its own in the post- Charter era (1982 onward) and certainly in the last several years. As the courts wade more fully into the swirling abyss that is religion they find themselves struggling with the issues that preoccupy scholars of religion (and for which they have found no conclusive answer): what is “religion” and how can it be defined in a manner that is inclusive and meaningful? This article takes as its point of departure the provocative and compelling argument made by Winnifred Sullivan in her book, The Impossibility of Religious Freedom (2005), that religious freedom as a legal promise is untenable. In this article I argue that while plausible and convincing in the context of the United States, Sullivan’s thesis may be less applicable in Canada for three key reasons. First, the embeddedness of Roman Catholicism in Canadian social structure has resulted in a textured and nuanced understanding of religion, or, at the very least, a recognition that religion is in some measure a multifaceted notion. Secondly, the recognition of group rights, however defined, means that there is a space created for alternative religious discourses, in part because of the constitutional recognition of multiculturalism. Thirdly, the recent turn by the Supreme Court of Canada to an understanding of the subjectivity of religious freedom strengthens the idea that religion must be conceptualized in relation to the ways in which individuals understand and practice it in their day to day lives.

Normative significance of transnationalism? The case of the Danish cartoons controversy

The paper concerns the specific transnational aspects of the ‘cartoons controversy’ over the publication of 12 drawings of the Prophet Muhammad in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Transnationalism denotes the relationships that are not international (between states) or domestic (between states and citizens, or between groups or individuals within a state). The paper considers whether the specifically transnational aspects of the controversy are normatively significant, that is, whether transnationalism makes a difference for the applicability or strength of normative considerations concerning publications such as the Danish cartoons. It is argued that, although some of the usual arguments about free speech only or mainly apply domestically, many also apply transnationally; that standard arguments for multicultural recognition are difficult to apply transnationally; and that requirements of respect may have problematic implications if applied to transnational relationships.

Legal Pluralism: An Adequate Instrument for the Recognition of Multiculturalism?

According to the most authoritative experts, there are two principal types of legal pluralism, which can be identified as minimalist and maximalist. This is why legal anthropologist Norbert Rouland speaks of a weak version and a strong version. The weak version simply refers to the presence of different juridical mechanisms applied to identical circumstances within a given society. A further differentiation is that the weak version implies a plurality of legal solutions that may be applied within a legal system guaranteed by specific state provisions.
 In order to define the strong version of legal pluralism we need to bear in mind that several concurrent legal orders, i.e., state law as well as extra-state systems, meet and clash within a given society. The various juridical orders may either converge or diverge, i.e., they may have normative similarities or differences.

Galeotti on recognition as inclusion

Anna Elisabetta Galeotti’s theory of ‘toleration as recognition’ has been criticised by Peter Jones for being conceptually incoherent, since liberal toleration presupposes a negative attitude to differences, whereas multicultural recognition requires positive affirmation hereof. The paper spells out Galeotti’s justification for recognition as a requirement of liberal justice in detail and asks in what sense the policies supported by Galeotti are policies of recognition. It is argued that Jones misrepresents Galeotti’s theory, insofar as this sense of recognition actually is compatible with liberal toleration. This does not prove Jones’s criticism to be wrong, since the justification may have implications unacknowledged by Galeotti, which might be liberally problematic. The paper considers this problem and possible ways of responding to it, but concludes that Galeotti’s theory is incomplete in respects that need to be filled out in order to secure compatibility with liberalism, and that this may prove problematic.

The cartoon controversy as a case of multicultural recognition

The recent ‘cartoon controversy’ sparked by the publication of drawings of the Prophet Mohammad in a Danish newspaper can reasonably be added to the list of prominent multicultural conflicts alread...

Multicultural recognition and ethnic minority rights: A social identity perspective

Questions of multiculturalism give rise to lively and important debates in many countries and in many spheres of life. Diversity is considered desirable and necessary for the development of secure ethnic identities and positive self-feelings, but is also challenged for being inequitable and a threat to social cohesion. It is argued that the social identity perspective offers a useful framework for examining some of the key social psychological correlates and consequences of multicultural recognition. This perspective draws attention to status positions, ingroup identification, beliefs about the nature of ethnic groups, and perceptions of the social system. The first empirical section deals with the endorsement of multiculturalism in relation to majority – minority group status and the perceived nature of minority groups. Subsequently, the endorsement of multiculturalism is examined in relation to perceived structural discrimination, and the importance of social cohesion and stability. In the third empirical part the focus is on consequences of multicultural recognition for ingroup identification and self-esteem. As a set, the various empirical and theoretical arguments suggest that there is not one best approach to managing cultural diversity. Rather, it is important to concentrate on when and why specific effects occur, which means that more systematic attention should be paid to forms of multiculturalism, different groups, and to various conditions and circumstances.