Identity Captured by Law : Membership in Canada's Indigenous Peoples and Linguistic Minorities

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sébastien Grammond 2009, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income distribution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Identity Captured by Law, Sébastien Grammond explains how minority rights make identity legally relevant, providing a detailed account of struggles that have been fought concerning Indian status and admission to minority-language schools. Setting his analysis of the law in the wider interdisciplinary context of anthropology and political theory, Grammond assesses whether a group's membership rules are an accurate reflection of their ethnicity and are based on sound justifications of minority rights. He argues that membership rules do not violate equality rights if there is sufficient correspondence between the legal criteria that determine membership and the group's own cultural or relational conceptions of their ethnic identity. Comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and original in its comparison of indigenous peoples and linguistic minorities, Identity Captured by Law is an invaluable resource for legal and political scholars and students, as well as anyone interested in the controversies surrounding the legal recognition of identity.

Contents:

Ethnicity, equality, and minority rights

Assessing membership control

Membership criteria in the Indian Act, 1850-1985

Modern definitions of indigenous identity

Access to minority-language education.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-247) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-86674-5

9786612866746

0-7735-7629-0

OCLC:

713186295