Expanding Social Justice: Exploring Connections Between Immigration and Indigeneity

B. Thomas
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Most discussions of group--‐differentiated disadvantage seek to explain its covert and overt nature through the experiences of dominant groups and their relations to subordinate groups.  This is a vertical approach to social injustice.  Instead of taking this approach, I take a horizontal approach that seeks to determine whether there are logics that produce disadvantage that are invisible to the vertical understandings of socially constructed group--‐ differentiated disadvantage.  To this end, I critically consider the relationships between disadvantaged groups by reflecting on the experiences of Black Canadians and Canadian Aboriginals.  Their experiences reveal the underbelly of Canadian multiculturalism and of discourses of membership and belonging.  I explore the ways in which these groups have potentially complex and conflicting modes of injustice that elicit potentially conflicting and complex prescriptions.  Recognizing this has the potential to facilitate a finer--‐grained sensitivity to the description and potential amelioration of group--‐differentiated disadvantage and to problematize discourses of membership and belonging in their instantiation in current Canadian practices, norms, and governing arrangements.  
扩大社会公正:探索移民与土著之间的联系
大多数关于群体差异化劣势的讨论都试图通过优势群体的经历及其与从属群体的关系来解释其隐蔽性和公开性。这是对社会不公正的纵向分析。我没有采用这种方法,而是采用一种横向方法,试图确定是否存在产生劣势的逻辑,而这些劣势在对社会构建的群体差异化劣势的纵向理解中是看不见的。为此,我通过反思加拿大黑人和加拿大原住民的经历,批判性地思考弱势群体之间的关系。他们的经历揭示了加拿大多元文化主义以及成员和归属感话语的弱点。我探索了这些群体潜在的复杂和冲突的不公正模式的方式,这些模式引发了潜在的冲突和复杂的处方。认识到这一点有可能促进对群体差异化劣势的描述和潜在改善的更细致的敏感性,并在当前加拿大实践、规范和管理安排的实例中对成员和归属的话语提出问题。
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