The role of statistics on ethnic origin and 'race' in Canadian anti-discrimination policy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4388960
AutoresMaryse Potvin (École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique, autor correspondente)
Ano2005
Volume57
Fascículo183
Páginas27-42
Data de publicação2005-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Social Science Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-8701 • E-ISSN: 1468-2451
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.0020-8701.2005.00529.x
OpenAlexW2007052484
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas2

This article sets the history of the development of Canadian anti-discrimination policy and of legal and practical definition of statistical categories relating to 'race' and ethnic origin within a strategy of substantive equality and action against discrimination. It is shown that the elaboration of such categories, their development, changing nomenclatures and the debates to which they have given rise are set within the history of power relations between the various majority and minority groups in Canada. The article also stresses that use of social statistics, which is now recognised to be basic and even essential in courts of law as well as in the development of legislation and policy, bears witness to growing articulation in Canada, over the last thirty or so years, between research, the law, and anti-discrimination policies

Articulation (sociology) · Ethnic discrimination · Ethnic group · Legislation · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Race (biology) · Sociology · Witness · Canadian Identity and History · Census and Population Estimation · European and International Law Studies · Gender Studies · Law