Minority Group and Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism:

Success, Failure, and the Future
By Will Kymlicka

TRANSATLANTIC COUNCIL ON MIGRATION

MULTICULTURALISM:
Success, Failure, and the Future
Will Kymlicka
Queen’s University

February 2012

Acknowledgments
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Transatlantic Council on Migration, an initiative of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), for its seventh plenary meeting, held November 2011 in Berlin. The meeting’s theme was “National Identity, Immigration, and Social Cohesion: (Re)building Community in an
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