Examines how multiculturalism relates to issues of migration, security, labour, environment/nature, and land.

Introduction: Labours, lands, bodies / May Chazan, Lisa Helps, Anna Stanley, and Sonali Thakkar -- Part I: Unsettling Multiculturalism : Chapter 1: Disgraceful: Intellectual dishonesty, white anxieties, and multicultural critique thirty-six years later / Rinaldo Walcott -- Chapter 2: Subjects of empire: Indigenous peoples and the "Politics of Recognition" in Canada / Glen S. Coulthard -- Chapter 3: For a multicultural, multi-faith, multiracial Canada: A manifesto / George Elliott Clarke -- Chapter 4: Hegemonies, continuities and discontinuities of multiculturalism and the Anglo-Franco conformity order / Grace-Edward Galabuzi -- Part 2: Labours: Chapter 5: Canadian multiculturalism and its nationalisms / Nandita Sharma -- Chapter 6: Multiculturalism already unbound / Margaret Walton-Roberts -- Part 3: Lands: Chapter 7: Recognition politics and reconciliation fantasies: Liberal multiculturalism and the "Indian land question" / Brian Egan -- Chapter 8: Reconciliation with Indigenous ghosts: On the politics of postcolonial ghost stories / Emilie Cameron -- Part 4: Bodies: -- Chapter 9: Resurfacing landscapes of trauma: Multiculturalism, cemeteries, and the migrant body, 1875 onwards / Laurie K. Bertram -- Chapter 10: Mere "song and dance": Complicating the multicultural imperative in the arts / Natasha Bakht -- Chapter 11: The colour of poverty / Uzma Shakir -- Notes -- Contributors.