How can societies that welcome immigrants from around the world create civic cohesion and political community out of ethnic and racial diversity? Providing a comparative perspective on how the United States and Canada encourage foreigners to become citizens, based on vivid in-depth interviews with Portuguese immigrants and Vietnamese refugees in Boston and Toronto and on statistical analysis and documentary data, this book shows that greater state support for settlement and an official government policy of multiculturalism in Canada increase citizenship acquisition and political participation among the foreign born.
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