Using gender, race/ethnicity, and class lenses to frame their analysis, the authors review Canadian immigration, multiculturalism, and employment equity policies, including their different historical origins, to illustrate how a preference for selling diversity has emerged in the last decade.

Selling Diversity begins where official rationales of multiculturalism stop short. Provocatively linking diversity to globalization, Abu-Laban and Gabriel provide a critical and very timely look at the unequal impact of Canadian immigration policies. -- Reg Whitaker, Professor Emeritus, York University and Adjunct Professor, University of Victoria An important book for all those interested in public policy in Canada. Abu-Laban and Gabriel analyze concisely and clearly recent policy shifts, showing the ways in which neo-liberal policy directions have played out in immigration, multiculturalism, and employment equity policies. The authors illustrate how, despite a growing acceptance and even celebration of diversity, market-oriented, privatizing policies have in fact led to the selling out of substantive equality. The authors do a superb job of showing how the intersections of gender, race, and class are constitutive parts of these policies and therefore essential to their understanding and analysis. -- Caroline Andrew, University of Ottawa Selling Diversity is an excellent resource. By providing a very accessible and thorough account of Canada's economy of diversity, the authors expose the gendered dynamics of each of the policy areas and make transparent how the discourses of globalization can act as an alibi for neo-liberal practices and policies. Selling Diversity offers a timely intervention into the political economy of Canadian public policy and legislation in this moment of globalized neo-liberalism. -- Simone A. Brown, University of Toronto, Resources for Feminist Research

AcknowledgementsChapter One:Diversity, Globalization and Public Policy in CanadaChapter Two:Immigration and Canadian CitizenshipChapter Three:Contemporary Directions:Immigration and Citizenship Policy 1993-2001Chapter Four:Multiculturalism and Nation-BuildingChapter Five:Employment EquityChapter Six:Conclusion: Selling (Out) Diversity in an Age of GlobalizationSelected BibliographyIndex