Global Apartheid: Refugees, Racism, and the New World Order

Joseph Garcea is an assistant professor of political studies at the
University of Saskatchewan.

This comparative analysis of migration, racism, and multiculturalism in
Canada, the United States, Britain, and Australia will appeal to anyone
interested in the theoretical or empirical aspects of these phenomena.
The extensive bibliography alone makes it an invaluable book.

The first section provides interesting sociological insights, as well
as theoretical perspectives on the relationship between
postindustrialism, postmodernism and ethnic conflict, and race and urban
violence. It also includes some intriguing conceptual distinctions
between proactive and reactive migration, and environmental versus
political refugees. Section 2, which includes comparative analyses of
immigration and ethnicity, discusses immigration and structural change
in Canada; Canadian and American immigration and refugee policies;
racism and immigration in Canada and Britain; and immigration and
multiculturalism in Canada and Australia. The final section consists of
observations regarding migration, racism, ethnic conflict, and the new
world order, as well as a particularly interesting discussion of
alternative visions regarding a global order.