La recherche part de l’investigation poétique sur le processus de création d’un Lieu Inventé qui se produit entre l’objectualité des choses et la subtile matérialité du dessin et de la parole. On revisite des notions et concepts de matérialité associés aux processus de création et de fabrication d’objets, en comprenant que le champ de l’art est aussi responsable d’une partie de la pensée sur la matérialité du monde, parce que nous agissons aussi comme des producteurs de formes dans des processus de création d’objets de pensé, qui constituent eux aussi des inventions et des propositions de modes de vie. Pour cela, à travers le Lieu Inventé, on développe dans cette recherche le concept et la méthodologie de la (Re)fabrique, sous la compréhension de l’Art et de la Littérature comme des champs qui travaillent directement liés au quotidien du monde, en s’appropriant la matérialié et la signification des choses, en les utilisant, en les transformant et donc en agissant sur elles. Ce concept est également un dispositif de fiction où les travaux apparaîtront à travers trois personnages : La Constructrice de Ponts, L’Objetotécaire et L’Observateur. Plus que des caractères, ils sont des sujets inventés par les objets. À travers eux, on présente les trois motes théoriques-pratiques : la construction d’objets-lieux ; les inventaires et classifications de lieux et objets en écritures et dessins ; et les observations des lieux comme des objets. L’approche se fait par trois récits de journaux intimes, dans une situation de monde qu’on appelle Nulle Part. On le fait en posant un dialogue indirect entre des personnages qui problématisent des questions théoriques et présentent la production artistique développée au cours du doctorat. La thèse présente une collection de productions artistiques qui s’utilisent de l’appropriation d’objets et aussi de celles qui les perçoivent comme un objet fabriqué qui interfère sur le moyen et les formes de vie. En outre, on cherche dans la littérature des auteurs dont les productions sont imprégnées d’un intérêt cinglant par les objets quotidiens. Dans ce transit entre objets, dessins et mots, l’invention d’un lieu par des objets devient possible, en saisissant les implications poétiques, esthétiques et politiques. De cette manière l’investigation s’élargit vers une discussion importante de l’actualité par rapport à la consommation, l’obsolescence programmée et la Néguentropie, en proposant une nouvelle discussion sur les modes de vie et le temps des choses. / A pesquisa parte da investigação poética sobre o processo de criação de um Lugar Inventado, que ocorre entre a objetualidade das coisas e a sutil materialidade do desenho e da palavra. Revisita noções e conceitos de materialidade associados a processos de criação e fabricação de objetos, entendendo que o campo da arte é também responsável por parte do pensamento sobre a materialidade do mundo, pois atuamos também como produtores de formas em processos de criação de objetos de pensamento, que também se constituem em invenções e proposições de modos de vida. Para isso, através do Lugar Inventado, são desenvolvidos no interior da pesquisa o conceito e a metodologia de (Re)fábrica, entendendo a Arte e a Literatura como campos que trabalham diretamente ligados ao cotidiano do mundo, apropriando-se da materialidade e significado das coisas, operando-as, transformando-as e, por isso, atuando sobre elas. Esse conceito é também um dispositivo ficcional por onde os trabalhos aparecerão abordados através de três personagens: A Construtora de Pontes, O Objetotecário e O Observador, mais que personagens, são sujeitos inventados pelos objetos. Por eles são apresentados os três motes teórico-práticos: as construções de objetos-lugares; os inventários e classificações de lugares e objetos em escrita e desenhos; e as observações tanto dos lugares quanto dos objetos. A forma de abordagem se dá através de três narrativas de diários, numa situação de mundo chamada Lugar Nenhum. Para isso suscita um diálogo indireto entre personagens que problematizam questões teóricas e apresentam a produção artística desenvolvida ao longo do doutorado. A tese apresenta um levantamento de algumas produções artísticas que fazem uso da apropriação de objetos e também daquelas que percebem estes como um objeto fabricado que interfere sobre o meio e as formas de vida. Além disso, busca na literatura autores cujas produções são permeadas pelo interesse contundente sobre objetos cotidianos. Nesse trânsito entre objetos, desenhos e palavras, a possibilidade de invenção de um lugar através dos objetos se torna possível, percebendo as implicações poéticas, estéticas e políticas. Desta forma a investigação se amplia para uma discussão importante para a atualidade em relação ao consumo, à obsolescência planejada e àNeguentropia, propondo uma nova discussão sobre as formas de vida e o tempo das coisas. / The study starts from the poetic investigation into the process of creating an Invented Place, which occurs between objectuality of things and the subtle materiality of drawings and words. It revisits notions and concepts of materiality associated with the processes of creation and manufacture of objects, understanding that the field of art is also responsible for part of the thoughts on the materiality of the world, as we also act as producers of forms in the process of creating objects of thought, which also constitute inventions and proposals for ways of living. For that, through the "Invented Place", we have developed within the research the concept and methodology of (Re) manufacturing, understanding art and literature as fields that work directly linked to the everyday world, appropriating the materiality and meaning of things, operating them, transforming them, and therefore acting on them. This concept is also a fictional device by which the work will appear addressed through three characters: The Constructor of Bridges, The Object-keeper and The Observer, which, more than characters, are subjects invented by objects. Through them, the three theoretical and practical mottos are presented: the construction of object-places; the inventories and classification of places and objects in writing and drawings; and observations of both places and objects. The approach chosen happens through three journal narratives, in a situation of world called Nowhere. For this, it raises an indirect dialogue between characters that problematize theoretical issues and present the artistic production developed over the doctorate. The thesis presents a survey of some artistic productions that make use of the appropriation of objects and also of those who perceive them as a manufactured object that interferes with the means and ways of living. Furthermore, the research seeks authors in literature whose productions are permeated by forceful interest in everyday objects. In this transit between objects, drawings and words, the possibility of inventing a place through objects becomes possible, realizing the poetic, aesthetic and political implications. Thus, the investigation is extended to an important discussion for nowadaysregardingrelationswith consumption, planned obsolescence and Negentropy, proposing a new discussion about ways of living and the time of things.

La recherche part de l’investigation poétique sur le processus de création d’un Lieu Inventé qui se produit entre l’objectualité des choses et la subtile matérialité du dessin et de la parole. On revisite des notions et concepts de matérialité associés aux processus de création et de fabrication d’objets, en comprenant que le champ de l’art est aussi responsable d’une partie de la pensée sur la matérialité du monde, parce que nous agissons aussi comme des producteurs de formes dans des processus de création d’objets de pensé, qui constituent eux aussi des inventions et des propositions de modes de vie. Pour cela, à travers le Lieu Inventé, on développe dans cette recherche le concept et la méthodologie de la (Re)fabrique, sous la compréhension de l’Art et de la Littérature comme des champs qui travaillent directement liés au quotidien du monde, en s’appropriant la matérialié et la signification des choses, en les utilisant, en les transformant et donc en agissant sur elles. Ce concept est également un dispositif de fiction où les travaux apparaîtront à travers trois personnages : La Constructrice de Ponts, L’Objetotécaire et L’Observateur. Plus que des caractères, ils sont des sujets inventés par les objets. À travers eux, on présente les trois motes théoriques-pratiques : la construction d’objets-lieux ; les inventaires et classifications de lieux et objets en écritures et dessins ; et les observations des lieux comme des objets. L’approche se fait par trois récits de journaux intimes, dans une situation de monde qu’on appelle Nulle Part. On le fait en posant un dialogue indirect entre des personnages qui problématisent des questions théoriques et présentent la production artistique développée au cours du doctorat. La thèse présente une collection de productions artistiques qui s’utilisent de l’appropriation d’objets et aussi de celles qui les perçoivent comme un objet fabriqué qui interfère sur le moyen et les formes de vie. En outre, on cherche dans la littérature des auteurs dont les productions sont imprégnées d’un intérêt cinglant par les objets quotidiens. Dans ce transit entre objets, dessins et mots, l’invention d’un lieu par des objets devient possible, en saisissant les implications poétiques, esthétiques et politiques. De cette manière l’investigation s’élargit vers une discussion importante de l’actualité par rapport à la consommation, l’obsolescence programmée et la Néguentropie, en proposant une nouvelle discussion sur les modes de vie et le temps des choses. / A pesquisa parte da investigação poética sobre o processo de criação de um Lugar Inventado, que ocorre entre a objetualidade das coisas e a sutil materialidade do desenho e da palavra. Revisita noções e conceitos de materialidade associados a processos de criação e fabricação de objetos, entendendo que o campo da arte é também responsável por parte do pensamento sobre a materialidade do mundo, pois atuamos também como produtores de formas em processos de criação de objetos de pensamento, que também se constituem em invenções e proposições de modos de vida. Para isso, através do Lugar Inventado, são desenvolvidos no interior da pesquisa o conceito e a metodologia de (Re)fábrica, entendendo a Arte e a Literatura como campos que trabalham diretamente ligados ao cotidiano do mundo, apropriando-se da materialidade e significado das coisas, operando-as, transformando-as e, por isso, atuando sobre elas. Esse conceito é também um dispositivo ficcional por onde os trabalhos aparecerão abordados através de três personagens: A Construtora de Pontes, O Objetotecário e O Observador, mais que personagens, são sujeitos inventados pelos objetos. Por eles são apresentados os três motes teórico-práticos: as construções de objetos-lugares; os inventários e classificações de lugares e objetos em escrita e desenhos; e as observações tanto dos lugares quanto dos objetos. A forma de abordagem se dá através de três narrativas de diários, numa situação de mundo chamada Lugar Nenhum. Para isso suscita um diálogo indireto entre personagens que problematizam questões teóricas e apresentam a produção artística desenvolvida ao longo do doutorado. A tese apresenta um levantamento de algumas produções artísticas que fazem uso da apropriação de objetos e também daquelas que percebem estes como um objeto fabricado que interfere sobre o meio e as formas de vida. Além disso, busca na literatura autores cujas produções são permeadas pelo interesse contundente sobre objetos cotidianos. Nesse trânsito entre objetos, desenhos e palavras, a possibilidade de invenção de um lugar através dos objetos se torna possível, percebendo as implicações poéticas, estéticas e políticas. Desta forma a investigação se amplia para uma discussão importante para a atualidade em relação ao consumo, à obsolescência planejada e àNeguentropia, propondo uma nova discussão sobre as formas de vida e o tempo das coisas. / The study starts from the poetic investigation into the process of creating an Invented Place, which occurs between objectuality of things and the subtle materiality of drawings and words. It revisits notions and concepts of materiality associated with the processes of creation and manufacture of objects, understanding that the field of art is also responsible for part of the thoughts on the materiality of the world, as we also act as producers of forms in the process of creating objects of thought, which also constitute inventions and proposals for ways of living. For that, through the "Invented Place", we have developed within the research the concept and methodology of (Re) manufacturing, understanding art and literature as fields that work directly linked to the everyday world, appropriating the materiality and meaning of things, operating them, transforming them, and therefore acting on them. This concept is also a fictional device by which the work will appear addressed through three characters: The Constructor of Bridges, The Object-keeper and The Observer, which, more than characters, are subjects invented by objects. Through them, the three theoretical and practical mottos are presented: the construction of object-places; the inventories and classification of places and objects in writing and drawings; and observations of both places and objects. The approach chosen happens through three journal narratives, in a situation of world called Nowhere. For this, it raises an indirect dialogue between characters that problematize theoretical issues and present the artistic production developed over the doctorate. The thesis presents a survey of some artistic productions that make use of the appropriation of objects and also of those who perceive them as a manufactured object that interferes with the means and ways of living. Furthermore, the research seeks authors in literature whose productions are permeated by forceful interest in everyday objects. In this transit between objects, drawings and words, the possibility of inventing a place through objects becomes possible, realizing the poetic, aesthetic and political implications. Thus, the investigation is extended to an important discussion for nowadaysregardingrelationswith consumption, planned obsolescence and Negentropy, proposing a new discussion about ways of living and the time of things.

A testing system MTS Tytron 250 with an original construction was bought at the Institute of Physics of Materials, AVCR v.v.i. The main aim of this diploma thesis was to obtain experiences with the controlling of the system and with its advantages and limitations. The tensile tests were performed on Al fibres with diameters of 125 micrometer, 180 micrometer a 500 micrometer, nylon fibres of 250 micrometer and 500 micrometer and tensile and cyclic tests on Al foil of 77 micrometer in thickness. It was found that the machine is suitable for testing of either subtle specimens with low loading forces or specimens with low stiffness as e.g. polymers or very long metallic or ceramic fibres. On the other side, the Tytrom system is not able to perform tests on specimens with a high stiffness and high loading forces. Material parameters were determined with a high reproducibility. Advantages and limitations of several types of subtle specimen's fixation into the grips were studied too.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:31:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luis G Galeao_Silva.pdf: 820815 bytes, checksum: da4f4d6c658489cbe9489b6dfdc19a3e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-05-10 / Recently, Brazilian society has experienced a shift in the perception of racial inequality. Few years ago, it was widely spread the notion that there was no racism in Brazil and that the social conditions were the main problem of black population. Nowadays, however, it seems that the majority of Brazilians has realized there is, indeed, racism in Brazil. The nature of racial prejudice against black people raises many questions. Here we had proposed to explore one of these questions: the relationship between subtle prejudice, explicit prejudice and tendency to Fascism. We hypothesized that subtle and explicit prejudice against black people are correlated to a tendency to Fascism. To investigate this hypothesis, it was applied a questionnaire to 103 students of a Business Administration School, who self-declared being white. It was performed a critical social research. The questionnaire was composed by the F-scale (Fascism) blatant prejudice and subtle prejudice. In our results it was found a correlation between F-scale and both types of prejudice. In addition, we found a higher mean in the F-scale, subtle prejudice and blatant prejudice, respectively. The most relevant correlation occurred between F-scale and subtle prejudice. We interpreted that students with subtle prejudice against black people have higher tendency to Fascism. It was done a factor analyses with the principal factor method. We concluded from the correlation and the data analysis that the subtle prejudice signalizes similarities between psychological conditions and adhesion to Fascism and the contemporary racist ideology. We suggested that the need of social measures for black and white people should be followed by a critic perspective and by changes of social conditions that lead to authoritarianism / Ao longo dos últimos anos, muitas pessoas mudaram sua percepção sobre a desigualdade racial no Brasil. Antes, era senso comum que não havia racismo e que os negros só não se destacavam na sociedade por condições sociais. Hoje, a maioria dos brasileiros acredita que existe racismo no Brasil. Mas a compreensão da natureza do preconceito racial contra negros no Brasil ainda gera muitas questões. Esta pesquisa foi orientada para a busca da compreensão de uma dessas questões: a relação entre o preconceito sutil, o preconceito flagrante e a tendência à adesão ao fascismo. Para isso, foi realizada uma pesquisa social crítica que como hipótese estabeleceu que o preconceito sutil e o preconceito flagrante contra negros estão relacionados à tendência à adesão ao fascismo. Para investigar essa hipótese, cento e três universitários (103) do curso de Administração de Empresas, auto-identificados como brancos, responderam a um questionário. O questionário foi composto pelas escalas F (fascismo), preconceito flagrante e preconceito sutil. Foram verificadas correlações significativas entre os escores das três escalas. Também foi observado que os sujeitos, em média, obtiveram escores mais altos na escala F, seguida da de preconceito sutil e, por último, da escala de preconceito flagrante. Foi realizada uma análise fatorial pelo método dos componentes principais das três escalas. A correlação entre a escala F e a escala do preconceito sutil chama a atenção porque se esperava uma relação maior entre a tendência à adesão ao fascismo e ao preconceito flagrante do que entre a tendência à adesão ao fascismo e ao preconceito sutil. Mas os estudantes mais preconceituosos sutis contra os negros tendem ao fascismo, do mesmo modo que os preconceituosos flagrantes. Outra conclusão importante, a partir dessa correlação e da análise dos componentes principais das escalas, é que o preconceito sutil sinaliza semelhanças entre as condições psicológicas para a adesão ao fascismo e à ideologia racista contemporânea. Essas conclusões indicam a necessidade de que as medidas igualitárias entre brancos e negros sejam acompanhadas da crítica e da mudança das condições sociais que levam ao autoritarismo, uma vez que o fascismo e o preconceito contra negros, inclusive o sutil, estão relacionados

This works explores how to work with Event scores as a design method. In the search for what is real or what is reality the already existing things are being explored. The work started with investigating suitable ways to work with the moving body in the design process, with the aim to find a method that gave control but also left some parameters to the undecided and ambiguous. Convinced that this will lead to something new some parts of the process were highlighted and re-formulated. / Program: Modedesignutbildningen

Les micro-expressions sont des expressions faciales brèves et subtiles qui apparaissent et disparaissent en une fraction de seconde. Ce type d'expressions reflèterait "l'intention réelle" de l'être humain. Elles ont été étudiées pour mieux comprendre les communications non verbales et dans un contexte médicale lorsqu'il devient presque impossible d'engager une conversation ou d'essayer de traduire les émotions du visage ou le langage corporel d'un patient. Cependant, détecter et reconnaître les micro-expressions est une tâche difficile pour l'homme. Il peut donc être pertinent de développer des systèmes d'aide à la communication exploitant les micro-expressions. De nombreux travaux ont été réalisés dans les domaines de l'informatique affective et de la vision par ordinateur pour analyser les micro-expressions, mais une grande majorité de ces méthodes repose essentiellement sur des méthodes de vision par ordinateur classiques telles que les motifs binaires locaux, les histogrammes de gradients orientés et le flux optique. Étant donné que ce domaine de recherche est relativement nouveau, d'autres pistes restent à explorer. Dans cette thèse, nous présentons une nouvelle méthodologie pour l'analyse des petits mouvements (que nous appellerons par la suite mouvements subtils) et des micro-expressions. Nous proposons d'utiliser la pyramide de Riesz, une approximation multi-échelle et directionnelle de la transformation de Riesz qui a été utilisée pour l'amplification du mouvement dans les vidéos à l'aide de l'estimation de la phase 2D locale. Pour l'étape générale d'analyse de mouvements subtils, nous transformons une séquence d'images avec la pyramide de Riesz, extrayons et filtrons les variations de phase de l'image. Ces variations de phase sont en lien avec le mouvement. De plus, nous isolons les régions d'intérêt où des mouvements subtils pourraient avoir lieu en masquant les zones de bruit à l'aide de l'amplitude locale. La séquence d'image est transformée en un signal ID utilisé pour l'analyse temporelle et la détection de mouvement subtils. Nous avons créé notre propre base de données de séquences de mouvements subtils pour tester notre méthode. Pour l'étape de détection de micro-expressions, nous adaptons la méthode précédente au traitement de certaines régions d'intérêt du visage. Nous développons également une méthode heuristique pour détecter les micro-événements faciaux qui sépare les micro-expressions réelles des clignotements et des mouvements subtils des yeux. Pour la classification des micro-expressions, nous exploitons l'invariance, sur de courtes durées, de l'orientation dominante issue de la transformation de Riesz afin de moyenner la séquence d'une micro-expression en une paire d'images. A partir de ces images, nous définissons le descripteur MORF (Mean Oriented Riesz Feature) constitué d'histogrammes d'orientation. Les performances de nos méthodes sont évaluées à l'aide de deux bases de données de micro-expressions spontanées. / Micro-expressions are brief and subtle facial expressions that go on and off the face in a fraction of a second. This kind of facial expressions usually occurs in high stake situations and is considered to reflect a humans real intent. They have been studied to better understand non-verbal communications and in medical applications where is almost impossible to engage in a conversation or try to read the facial emotions or body language of a patient. There has been some interest works in micro-expression analysis, however, a great majority of these methods are based on classically established computer vision methods such as local binary patterns, histogram of gradients and optical flow. Considering the fact that this area of research is relatively new, much contributions remains to be made. ln this thesis, we present a novel methodology for subtle motion and micro-expression analysis. We propose to use the Riesz pyramid, a multi-scale steerable Hilbert transformer which has been used for 2-D phase representation and video amplification, as the basis for our methodology. For the general subtle motion analysis step, we transform an image sequence with the Riesz pyramid, extract and lifter the image phase variations as proxies for motion. Furthermore, we isolate regions of intcrcst where subtle motion might take place and mask noisy areas by thresholding the local amplitude. The total sequence is transformed into a ID signal which is used fo temporal analysis and subtle motion spotting. We create our own database of subtle motion sequences to test our method. For the micro-expression spotting step, we adapt the previous method to process some facial regions of interest. We also develop a heuristic method to detect facial micro-events that separates real micro-expressions from eye blinkings and subtle eye movements. For the micro-expression classification step, we exploit the dominant orientation constancy fom the Riesz transform to average the micro-expression sequence into an image pair. Based on that, we introduce the Mean Oriented Riesz Feature descriptor. The accuracy of our methods are tested in Iwo spontaneous micro-expressions databases. Furthermore, wc analyse the parameter variations and their effect in our results.

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Rudyard Kipling is a man of immense diversity. He successfully managed to write for over half a century in a variety of genres: short story, travelogue, ballad, personal narrative, and news reporting, to name only a few. While doing so, Kipling readily interacted with a range of subjects and created a multitude of ideas. Likewise, on a personal level, Kipling led an immensely diverse life. He could easily claim four separate continents as home, living variously in India, the United States, England, and South Africa. By profession he was a writer, but as an observer he was so skilled that he learned by heart a variety of professions ranging from street beggar to statesman. Both before and after his life, this variety and complexity has been a subject of debate. Some ignore it, others focus on a particular side of it, but for all it represents an interesting challenge in both studying and classifying Kipling. This thesis seeks to address that challenge by focusing on how Kipling's varying and competing images and ideas work together to assert Kipling's independence. In doing so, this work will look specifically at how Kipling uses multifaceted techniques in his public speeches. In looking at the speeches, the thesis explores three ways in which multiplicity reinforces independence: the combination of privacy and creation, the refashioning of expert detail and self-image, and the fusion of simplistic structure and subtle complexity.

Chicha (2009) constate un « trou noir » dans la littérature en ce qui a trait au processus qui engendre une plus forte déqualification à l’endroit des immigrantes universitaires. Ce « trou noir » est considéré comme problématique. D’une part, le gouvernement québécois tente de mettre en place des politiques d’immigration qui recrutent des immigrants ayant un capital humain élevé dans l’espoir qu’ils s’insèrent facilement sur marché de l’emploi. D’autre part, la présence plus marquée de déqualification de ce bassin de main d’œuvre démontre un écart entre la volonté politique et la situation réelle en emploi de ces immigrants. Il semble donc exister un problème de discrimination systémique lorsqu’il est question de déqualification des travailleuses immigrantes. Par souci d’équité et dans l’espoir d’avoir une meilleure compréhension du processus menant à la déqualification des immigrantes les objectifs de cette thèse sont de 1- mieux saisir le concept de discrimination en emploi et 2- mettre en place des mesures mieux adaptées pour s’attaquer à cette discrimination. Pour expliquer ce « trou noir », nous considérons que l’approche systémique est pertinente à cause de sa une vision holistique. Nous avons rencontré 52 immigrantes universitaires qui ont partagé leur parcours professionnel pré et post-migratoire. Les thématiques abordées touchaient à de nombreux sujets telles que leur formation, leur expérience professionnelle, leur stratégie d’unité familiale immigrante, leurs démarches concernant tant le processus de reconnaissance de leurs diplômes étrangers que leur insertion sur le marché de l’emploi, le climat de travail, etc. Les résultats de cette recherche indiquent que la discrimination en emploi est toujours présente sur le marché de l’emploi au Québec. De plus, l’origine ethnique, tel que la couleur de la peau, affecte les attitudes, comportements et propos des acteurs du milieu du travail à l’endroit des xiii immigrantes universitaires. L’application des typologies de Van Laer et Janssens (2011) et de Bonilla-Silva (2006) contribue à l’identification des attitudes, des comportements et des propos pouvant être considérés comme étant du racisme subtil. L’un des avancements de cette thèse est l’amélioration du cadre d’analyse systémique afin de mieux comprendre les difficultés à l’emploi des immigrantes universitaires. Les différentes théories empruntées de la psychologie sociale telles que les théories de similarité attraction, de catégorisation sociale et de qualité d’échanges entre subordonné et supérieur (Roberson et Block, 2001) permettent de peaufiner ce cadre d’analyse systémique, puisqu’il permet de mieux saisir les relations, parfois complexes, qui peuvent s’établir entre les différents acteurs et résulter en de la discrimination flagrante ou subtile. / Chicha (2009) observes a ‘’black hole’’ in publications regarding the process that allows for a a higher rate of employment deskilling of immigrant women with university education; a ‘’black hole’’ that is considered to be a real problem. On one hand, the Quebec government is trying to implement immigration policies to increase the recruiting of immigrants with higher human capital, in the hope that they will readily find employment. On the other hand, a higher rate of employment diskilling in this group of workers shows that there is a dichotomy between their actual situation on the job market, and the government’s political objectives. Therefore, there appears to be systemic discrimination on the subject of employment diskilling targeting immigrant workers. In order to address this social justice issue and in the hope of getting a better understanding of the process that leads to employment diskilling of immigrant women, we hope this thesis will better define the concept of discrimination in employment and set the table for implementing more efficient policies that will effectively fight this particular type of discrimination. We consider that the holistic views that caracterize the systemic approach make it the best way to explain this ‘’black hole’’. We have met with 52 university-educated immigrant women; they have shared with us their professional work experience prior to and following their emigration to Canada. We addressed numerous issues such as their education; their professional experience; their planing for the migration of their family; the active steps they took both for the recognition of their foreign university degrees and for getting a job; their workplace experience, etc. The results of our research reveal that discrimination remains an issue in the job market in xv Quebec. Furthermore, issues relating to ethnic origin and skin color still permeate attitudes, behaviors and language, targeting immigrant women with university education in the job market. Van Laer & Janssens (2011) typologies were useful for identifying attitudes, behaviors and comments which could be considered subtle racism. We hope that one of the contributions of the present thesis will be the improvement of the systemic analysis framework , which will lead to a better understanding of university-educated immigrant women. Diverse theories pertaining to social psychology such as similarity attraction theory; social categorisation theory, LMX, (Roberson & Block, 2001) make it possible to refine this systemic analysis framework, and allow for a better understanding of the sometimes complex relations that can develop between individuals and result in open or subtle racism.