Toward Sustainable Cultural Pluralism: The Role of International Migration Ronald Schmidt Fulbright-Enders Visiting Research Chair Center for International.

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Toward Sustainable Cultural Pluralism: The Role of International Migration Ronald Schmidt Fulbright-Enders Visiting Research Chair Center for International Studies University of Montreal 10 November 2005

Introduction: Frame of Reference My Point of View: Political Scientist, specialist in Public Policy Studies in area of Ethno-Racial Diversity and Immigration Three Forms of Policy Analysis (per Martin Rein): –“Value-Neutral” Analysis –“Value-Committed” Analysis –“Value-Critical” Analysis

Questions to Address 1. What is Cultural Pluralism? 2. Why is Cultural Pluralism Valuable? 3. What is the Role of International Migration in Sustaining Cultural Pluralism? 4. What Public Policy Supports are Necessary for a Sustainable Cultural Pluralism?

1. What is Cultural Pluralism? Conceptual History & Distinctions What Cultural Pluralism is Not: –Cultural Assimilation –Cultural Diversity –Cultural Separation

Necessary Core Components Multiple Cultural Communities High Social Integration High Social Equality A Cosmopolitan Orientation

2. Why is Cultural Pluralism Valuable? Value for Cultural Communities? Value for Individuals? Value for Political Communities?

Value for Cultural Communities? Cultural Reproduction of Valued Ways of Life; Cultural Change, Adaptation, Vitality via Cosmopolitan Interactions; Enhanced Development of Cultural Capital.

Value for Individuals? Cultural Maintenance of Valued Way of Life; Enhanced Cultural Vitality and Learning via Cosmopolitan Interactions; Enriched Understanding of Possibilities for Varieties of a “Life Well-Lived”; Outlet for Individuals Needing New Cultural “Home”

Value for Political Communities? Increased Vitality & Enrichment of Dominant Societal Culture; Dynamism and Social Learning for Economic and Political Development; Dynamism and Social Learning for International Relations and Global Development

3. What is the Role of International Migration in Sustaining Cultural Pluralism? Replenishment of Existing Cultural Communities; Introduces “Change Agents” to Existing Cultural Communities; Introduction of New Cultural Communities; Stimulation of Cultural Vitality to Society; Helps Sustain Cultural Communities over Long Term

4. What Public Policy Supports are Necessary for a Sustainable Cultural Pluralism? Continued Immigration; “Institutional Completeness” for Cultural Communities; Social Integration Policies; Social Equality Policies; Cosmopolitan Orientation Policies