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Deirdre Meintel and Sylvie Fortin

Le Mile-End comme synthèse d’une montréalité en devenir

Ignace Olazabal
AbstractMontreal’s interethnic dynamic does not correspond to any known occidental model. In the city’s postmodern cultural maelstrom, plural identity referents are the norm. Located in the heart of the city, the Mile-End neighbourhood synthetizes and symbolizes better than any other the city’s plural and hybrid social reality. In this article, the concept of hybridity as defined by Sherry Simon is presented as a hybrid marker, even though it as been considered pejorative in the past. Based on observations of everyday life, I propose a reflexion on the meaning and scope of the concept of cultural hybridity in the Mile-End neighbourhood. I see this aspect of Mile-End as the crystallization of an emerging « montréalité ».

L’éveil aux langues : des enfants du primaire parlent des langues et de la diversité linguistique

Érica Maraillet and Françoise Armand
AbstractIn the midst of globalisation, and in the context of certain new ideas about the linguistic future of Quebec, Stefanescu and Georgeault’s recent book, Le français au Québec, les nouveaux défis, notes that linguistic diversity has recently attracted wide attention. Indeed, this book reveals the need to articulate the promotion and protection of the French language, with the recognition and valorisation of linguistic diversity on the international scene as well as in Quebec. In Montreal as elsewhere in Quebec, languages and linguistic diversity are being examined at all levels of the public sphere. This article attempts to shed some light on what children of immigrant origin, in the fifth and sixth grades of a multiethnic primary school, perceive regarding the debates around this topic. This study took place in the context of a language awareness project (ÉLODiL) oriented to fostering a thought provoking and trusting environment for pupils and researchers.

Violence, migration et naissance d’un messianisme autochtone dans les périphéries urbaines de Lima (Pérou)

Caroline Désilets
AbstractIn this article, I discuss how some Andean migrants to the urban periphery of Lima (Peru) reacted to the political violence and economic crisis of the 80s and 90s by turning to the messianic millenarian movement of the Israelites of the New Universal Covenant. I explore the strategies of adaptation, social recomposition and economic insertion of these migrants in the urban environment where this religious group developed. My main argument will be that conversion to this religious movement should be understood in terms of the discrimination and exclusion suffered by these migrants, as well as relation to their access to economic resources in the urban context.

Parc Extension : le renouveau d’un quartier d’intégration à Montréal

Cécile Poirier
AbstractNeighbourhoods are socially constructed spaces for people who have multiple identities and trajectories. This multiplicity is often neglected when neighbourhoods are described by one-dimension attributes that do not reflect the different realities of the social actors (residents, community workers, officials, shopkeepers). This paper deals with the question of plural perceptions and practices of neighbourhoods by examining the evolution of a multiethnic neighbourhood in Montreal through the prism of the concept of “integration neighbourhood”. First an area dominated by the Greek community and later a transitional space for populations with very diverse cultural backgrounds, Parc Extension is now facing demographic, urbanistic and socio-political changes that are transforming it into an integration neighbourhood for South-Asian groups. In the end, I suggest, the understanding of local dynamics should be framed in a more global analysis of the interactions between the territories as “practiced” by different social actors.

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