In Canada, the non-recognition of foreign credentials remains a considerable policy issue as well as a challenge for skilled immigrants. Many studies have shed light on the difficulties that foreign professionals face when seeking a placement in the Canadian job market. This thesis focused on the experiences of professional women from Morocco on the basis of the premise that every racialized group’s immigration experience deserves a space in the literature to voice their realities and inspire policy considerations. As a result, this study focused on examining the experiences of Moroccan women in the Canadian job market and the impact thereof, on their socio-economic status, and as such, health and well-being. In order to effectively capture the experiences of this particular community, a fieldwork study was conducted in the form of semi-structured individual interviews with twelve women who immigrated to Canada from Morocco with professional qualifications. Based on the participants’ accounts, I described that systemic discrimination as manifested in Othering and racialization remain major obstacles to the realization of equal access in the Canadian labour market. All in all, this research provides valuable insight into the plight of skilled immigrants in Canada and thus, offers strong policy recommendations to facilitate a more effective integration process for this group into the Canadian Job market.

This thesis examines the everyday experiences of Anglophone communities in three different regions of Quebec – the Gaspésie, Gatineau and Eastern Townships – with the aim to understand their sense of place. Specifically, the focus is on the role of different geographic contexts on everyday access to social services, particularly healthcare, and how these experiences contribute to Anglophones’ place attachment. Data collection involved semi-structured personal interviews with ten participants in each region. Comparative analysis yielded three main findings: (1) issues with accessing healthcare in English reinforces Anglophones’ minority status; (2) in spite of the challenges faced as a linguistic minority, Anglophones demonstrate a strong sense of place to their region; and (3) feelings of home, heritage, and rootedness constitute elements in Anglophones’ place attachment and contribute to their sense of place in Quebec. The study also concludes that age, mobility, and location are important variables in influencing everyday experiences in each of the three regions.

Thèse de doctorat : GESTION : Metz : 2001. / 2001METZ001D. 280 ref.

“Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Role of the Body in Canada’s Multicultural Religious Identity” examines the role of the body in contemporary conflicts of religious dress in public spaces in Canada. Utilizing policies, policy proposals, and legal precedents that regulate the religious body, I argue the physical religious body resides in a liminal space between the inclusive ideals of multicultural policy and the exclusionary policies of an overtly secular public sphere. Particular definitions of secularism and liberalism shape the construction of public life and civic spaces, and these specific understandings produce public space that is seemingly inhospitable to certain embodied religious expressions. The religious body complicates the assumed separation of religion and state, which understands religion to be an element of private, not public life. I argue that policies which seek to limit the religious body in public or civic spaces work to create an “ideal” secular citizen. / October 2015

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Est-ce que la décision de ne pas intégrer un élève handicapé sur le plan intellectuel dans une classe régulière est un acte discriminatoire au sens où elle viole les droits à l'égalité garantis par l'article 10 de la Charte québécoise et par l'article 15 de la Charte canadienne? L'hypothèse formulée en réponse à cette question est: oui, cette décision est discriminatoire parce qu'elle est fondée sur un motif illicite, à savoir le handicap. Une fois établi le cadre conceptuel de cette recherche en précisant le sens des concepts de discrimination, de handicap et d'intégration, l'étude de quelques décisions de la Cour d'appel du Québec révèle que, pour cette Cour, la norme d'égalité n'est pas la classe régulière, ce qui met en sourdine la conception de l'intégration comme droit objectif garantissant l'égalité. Ensuite, l'analyse de l'arrêt Eaton de la Cour d'appel de l'Ontario montre comment cette décision a suscité l'enthousiasme de ceux qui croyaient avoir trouvé dans le droit à l'égalité garanti par l'article 15 de la Charte canadienne un appui ferme pour l'intégration. Toutefois, la position de la Cour suprême dans l'arrêt Eaton a refroidi cet enthousiasme en rejetant toute présomption en faveur de l'intégration, lui préférant le critère du meilleur intérêt de l'enfant comme garant du droit à l'égalité pour les élèves intellectuellement handicapés. Ainsi, pour la Cour, le fait de ne pas intégrer ces élèves ne constitue pas en soi une forme de discrimination. / Does the decision not to integrate an intellectually disabled student in a regular c1ass constitute a discriminatory action in the sense that it violates equality rights guaranteed by section 10 of the Quebec Charter and by section 15 of the Canadian Charter ? The hypothesis formulated as an answer to that question is : yes, that decision is discriminatory because it is based on a forbidden ground, namely disability. The conceptual framework of this research is established by defining the concepts of discrimination, disability and integration. Then, the study of sorne Quebec Court of Appeal's decisions shows that in this Court's view the equality standard is not the regular c1ass, a position that underscores the conception of integration as an objective right ensuring equality. Next, the analysis of the Ontario Court of Appeal's decision in Eaton shows how that decision has aroused the enthusiasm of those who thought that they had found a firm support for integration in the equality rights guaranteed by section 15 of the Canadian Charter. However, the Supreme Court's ruling in Eaton has dampened that enthusiasm by rejecting any presumption in favor of integration, and rather adopting the child's best interest criterion as ensuring equality rights for intellectually disabled students. Thus, in the Court' s view, the fact of non integrating those students does not by itself constitute a form of discrimination. / "Mémoire présenté à la Faculté des études supérieures en vue de l'obtention du grade de Maître en droit (LL.M.)"

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This study presents a series of empirical tests of two influential theoretical perspectives on the industrialization and modernization of polyethnic societies. On the one hand, the functionalist perspective predicts that cultural diversity and pluralism will decline, that group inequalities will decrease, and that communal conflict should become less likely over time. The communal competition perspective, on the other hand, predicts that cultural diversity and pluralism will not necessarily wither away, that group inequalities will not inevitably be reduced, and that communal conflict is a possibility at any point in time. / Hypotheses derived from these two perspectives are tested using survey data on French-English relations drawn from the 1970-71 Quebec Social Movements Study. Part of the thesis is an update and replication of the benchmark study of Roseborough and Breton (1971). / The study provides an examination of the structure of the belief system of a segmented society, and contributes to a systematic assessment of the relative utility of the two theoretical perspectives for an understanding of social change in plural societies.

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Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal