A kanadai multikulturalizmus kialakulásában közrejátszó tényezők
Factors Contributing to the Development of Canadian Multiculturalism

Summary/Abstract: The paper provides a brief overview of the factors that contributed to the development of the Canadian type of multiculturalism by focusing on the emergence of this policy through the examples of the three subjects of multiculturalism: national minorities, immigrants, and indigenous communities. The paper presents the historical background of the British-French relations, their changes and the cultural differences between the two nations, and how the the policy of multiculturalism was constructed. In connection with the latter, it examines the role of immigrants and refugees in the development of Canadian social diversity. Out of the three subject groups of multiculturalism, immigrants are most likely to change the cultural fabric of a society. This part of the paper therefore examines the Canadian state’s relationship to immigrants and refugees prior to the emergence of the multicultural policy, the factors influencing this relationship, and the role that the state has played in making the Canadian society into a widely diverse one through immigration. The paper also examines the absence of indigenous communities from the process of the making of multiculturalism as a state policy. The last part of the paper presents the process of developing a multicultural policy and its direct driving forces.

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