Francophone Minority Communities and Immigrant Integration in Canada: Rethinking the Normative Foundations.
This paper addresses one particular feature of Canada's accommodation of diversity -- the existence of French-language communities outside of Quebec and New Brunswick -- to show how there continues to be conceptual difficulties in reconciling Canada's many diversities. More specifically, we are conc...
| Published in: | Canadian Ethnic Studies Vol. 45; no. 1/2; pp. 95 - 115 |
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2013
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=90114193&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 90114193 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00083496 CES jtl: Canadian Ethnic Studies issn: 00083496 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2013 vid: 45 iid: 1/2 pid: 419 pub: Canadian Ethnic Studies artinfo: ui: 90114193 10.1353/ces.2013.0034 ppf: 95 ppct: 20 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 167KB tig: atl: Francophone Minority Communities and Immigrant Integration in Canada: Rethinking the Normative Foundations. aug: au: IACOVINO, RAFFAELE LéGER, RéMI affil: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Carleton University Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University su: French-Canadians Communities Assimilation of immigrants Minorities Bilingualism Social conditions in Canada Sociolinguistics Social history Canadian history, 1945- Québec (Province) Canada sug: subj: Québec (Province) Canada French-Canadians Communities Assimilation of immigrants Minorities Bilingualism Social conditions in Canada Sociolinguistics Social history Canadian history, 1945- ab: This paper addresses one particular feature of Canada's accommodation of diversity -- the existence of French-language communities outside of Quebec and New Brunswick -- to show how there continues to be conceptual difficulties in reconciling Canada's many diversities. More specifically, we are concerned with conceptual ambiguities associated with the place of these minority communities in Canada's constitutive political sociology, and difficulties in promoting a coherent set of policies for their flourishing. Moreover, this paper will not simply rehash arguments about their forma and conceptual status. We are interested in illuminating a recent initiative that seeks to direct immigrants to these communities in the hope of maintaining their overall percentage of the Canadian population. This is a development that has received little attention to date from the perspective of the scholarship of multiculturalism and minority rights, and political theory more generally. We argue that the strategy to target Francophone minority communities as 'sites' of integration represents a false promise for both these communities and immigrants. This article will show that the federal framework of 'multiculturalism within a bilingual framework' obscures the realities confronting Francophone minority communities and thus their capacity to integrate newcomers, on both empirical and normative grounds. Cet article porte sur un cas particulier de l'accommodement canadien de la diversité - l'existence de communautés francophones en dehors du Québec et du Nouveau-Brunswick - pour montrer comment des difficultés conceptuelles à réconcilier les multiples aspects de cette diversité sont encore présentes. Plus précisément, ce qui nous concerne, ce sont les ambiguïtés de la sociologie politique constitutive du Canada envers la place donnée à ces communautés minoritaires et les difficultés promouvoir un ensemble cohérent de politiques en faveur de leur épanouissement. De plus, il ne s'agit pas ici de simplement répéter les arguments sur leur statut formel et conceptuel. Ce qui nous intéresse, c'est d'éclairer une initiative récente qui tente de diriger des immigrants vers elles dans l'espoir de maintenir leur pourcentage général de la population canadienne. Ce développement a reçu peu d'attention du point de vue de la recherche sur le multiculturalisme et es droits des minorités, ainsi que sur la théorie politique en général. Nous soutenons que la stratégie de viser les minorités francophones comme «lieux» d'intégration représente une fausse promesse, aussi bien pour ces communautés que pour les immigrants. Nous montrons dans cet article que les modalités fédérales du «multiculturalisme dans un cadre bilingue» cachent les réa- ités auxquelles elles sont confrontées et, donc, leur capacité à intégrer les nouveaux-venus, aussi bien pour des raisons empiriques que normatives. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Canadian Ethnic Studies is the property of Canadian Ethnic Studies and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Canadian Ethnic Studies holder: Canadian Ethnic Studies dt: @attributes: year: 2013 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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