Immigration et francophonies minoritaires canadiennes : les apories de la cohésion sociale
Year:
2021
Volume and number:
, No 51
Journal:
, Francophonies d'Amérique
Pages :
, 87-115
DOI :
https://doi.org/10.7202/1076518ar
Abstract
Francophone minority communities (FMCs) in Canada underwent a remarkable social transformation at the beginning of the 2000s: they became host communities to French-speaking immigrants. But how did this shape social cohesion with respect to ethnoracial diversity? This article explores the aporias of social cohesion within four FMCs across the country (British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and New Brunswick). Our argument is drawn, on the one hand, from debates in the social sciences literature about social cohesion, and on the other hand, from qualitative focus group data. Our results confirm a fact supported by Durkheimian sociology: achieving social cohesion within FMCs appears to have to undergo a process of creative destruction generating a collective contract that is able to integrate fully Francophone transnational immigrants who do not necessarily share the social ambitions of their host community.
Theme :
CanadafrancophonieImmigration
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