Communitivity and Intercommunitivity as Tools for Collective Learning to Address Ethnic Service Programming, Delivery and Evaluation

Abstract

These research notes are based on my last ten years of experience as a community worker in a multicultural setting and a university researcher on immigrant services. The aim is 1) to introduce two new terms - communitivity and intercommunitivity – which appeal for moving beyond ethnic group juxtaposition and 2) generate new ways of thinking about how communities with different cultural grounds can construct collective meanings which support a better understanding of programming, delivery and evaluation of services in multicultural communities. The paper has implications on public policy and immigrant services programming, delivery and evaluation.