© L p i Does immigrant-origin diversity undermine states’ willingness to engage in broad social redistribution, from enacting “living” minimum wage laws and progressive taxation, to providing public benefits in order to mitigate economic inequality? In asking this question, Will Kymlicka (2015), one of the staunchest defenders of multiculturalism, takes seriously the question of whether recogni...

This chapter provides three perspectives on feminist mentoring from two generations of faculty. After a brief review of the traditional mentoring and feminist/multicultural mentoring literatures, Meda Chesney-Lind begins the discussion with some thoughts on survival strategies that she has gleaned from decades of work in the academy. Her reflections on teaching, research, and service in the aca...

INTRODUCTION An equitable multicultural society requires General Practitioners (GPs) to be proficient in providing health care to patients from diverse backgrounds. This requires a certain set of attitudes, knowledge and skills known as cultural competence. While training in cultural competence is an important part of the Australian GP Registrar training curriculum, it is unclear who provides t...

The study of language use in multicultural setting has interested many researchers around the world several years back. This focuses American institutions Chad where English coexists with French and Arabic, official languages. A three-part questionnaire interviews served data collection on uses coexisting languages workplace domains. Results have shown that English, a foreign only used secondar...