My Grate in Migrate: Interrogating The Shades of Multi– in Multiculturalism
My Grate in Migrate: Interrogating The Shades of Multi– in Multiculturalism

Author(s): Sukhpreet Bhatia
Subject(s): Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Migrate; Multiculturalism; international; multicultural;
Summary/Abstract: Multiculturalism has been defined by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), as the co-existence of diverse cultures, where culture includes racial, religious, or cultural groups and is manifested in customary behaviours, cultural assumptions and values, patterns of thinking, and communicative styles. As the title suggests, the topic of my paper is to investigate the actual picture of the policy of Multiculturalism that has been theoretically adopted by most of the nations of the world, especially the western countries and its impact on the migrants. Earlier these countries had been popularizing the homogenizing notion of “assimilationism”, inherent in the idea of West as a melting pot, but that entailed the view of urban society as a racial hierarchy, giving only the option of conformity to the so-called inferiors and outsiders. This idea had been well-established and widely documented till the 1970s. Since then, various countries had been proposing ways and policies to accommodate ethnic diversity in a liberal atmosphere and projecting themselves as truly multicultural nations.

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