Comment on Meer and Modood

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. To state the obvious, countries that have embraced multiculturalism are not ethnic utopias, and they confront many challenges relating to the inclusion of immigrants, including social isolation, economic inequality, poor educational outcomes, prejudice and stereotyping. The question is whether these problems are any worse in countries that have adopted multiculturalism policies, as compared to those countries that have rejected multiculturalism in favour of some alternative approach. And the answer here is clear: there is no such evidence (see Kymlicka 2010b Kymlicka, W. 2010b. Testing the liberal multiculturalist hypothesis: normative theories and social science evidence. Canadian journal of political science, 43(2): 257–271. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]).…