ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the rise of multicultural citizenship and the demise of social citizenship. It looks at the origins of multiculturalism policies, with particular reference to Britain, as the decade of the 1970s drew to a close and the 1980s unfolded. T. H. Marshall in his, by now very well-known, analysis of citizenship argued that there are three strands of citizenship the first civil, the second political and the third social. Social citizenship or the social strand of citizenship it may be recalled was in Marshall's analysis, the third and last strand of citizenship to develop. This is the strand of citizenship which is premised on the extension of socio-economic rights to welfare and finds its institutional locale in the agencies of the state that make provisions for welfare. The retreat from multiculturalism policies especially in the 2000s has been noted by Kymlicka and Banting as well, to dismiss the claim that there is an across-the-board retreat from multiculturalism'.
