Lorsque la mère immigrée et sa fille font leurs achats ensemble : interactions et construction de l'identité ethnique dans la dyade / When the immigrant mother and her daughter shop together : interactions and construction of ethnic identity in the dyad

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In response to the scarcity of biblical scholarship analysing the function of the Hebrew Bible’s exodus stories as persuasive communication, this dissertation investigates how these mnemonically dense stories were capable of creating and maintaining a long-term collective identity for ancient Israel. A narrative approach is selected in keeping with this intent, and the primary exodus story (Exod 1:1–15:21) and the 18 retold exodus stories found in the Hebrew Bible are identified as the focus of research. Since the tools used for analysing the narratives of non-fictional peoples need not be limited to those used for analysing literary fiction, a methodological tool—based on the principles of the social identity approach (SIA)—is developed and outlined to assist in exposing identity construction at a rhetorical level. Using the SIA heuristic tool, rhetorical formulations of identity—cognitive, evaluative, emotional, behavioural and temporal—like those occurring in face-to-face relationships, are identified in the exodus stories. These formulations make certain identity claims upon their hearers. A shared experience of oppression and deliverance is represented as the significant feature defining group membership in Israel. The literary portrayal of nine of the eighteen retold exodus stories in a setting just after the death of the adult exodus generation, asserts the importance of the appropriation of the story by a purportedly new generation. Likewise, exodus narratives with a literary setting in every major socio-cultural transition in Israel’s larger story portray Israel’s rehearsal of and participation in exodus as central and essential to her ongoing collective identity. Possible social identities offered to Israel include the temporal expansion of this ingroup based on the retelling and reappropriation of exodus and the “othering” of Israel based on non-compliance. Pre-exodus narratives are noted to have been shaped so as to include the patriarchs in “the people whom God brought out of Egypt.” Plurivocal retold exodus stories also reflects the recasting of narratives to fit identities so that, anachronistically, post-exodus members may also be included in “the people whom God brought out of Egypt.” This points to the revision and reuse of exodus narratives rather than to their unilinear development. Apart from any speculation on the historical motives of their producers, the identity-forming potential of exodus narratives characterized by the well-established, recognizable language of social identity is identified. The newly developed heuristic tool used in this analysis is its most significant contribution. It makes visible the nascent social identity language and concepts implicitly noted by prior scholarship, places them within the larger validating theoretical framework of the SIA and systematically identifies the specific persuasive elements and integrating qualities of exodus narratives.

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Breaking away from the positivist trend dominating the literature on Moldova’s foreign relations, this thesis analyses the means through which national identity discourses impact on Moldovan societal representation of foreign policy. It contends that national identity perpetuates a Cold War inspired view of foreign affairs. This construction is defined by two main elements, the representation of the civilizational and geopolitical cleavage between East and West and the lack of agency awarded to the Moldovan self. This is achieved through an in-depth study of the national identity debate in Moldova. It focuses on both the two main national identity discourses in Moldova, Romanianism and Moldovanism. For this analysis, I employ a post-structuralist approach, conceptualising national identity as a discourse that helps us make sense of the world. Through this function and its persistence across Moldovan articulations, national identity plays a key role in representations of foreign affairs in Moldova. More specifically, the opposition between Romanianism and Moldovanism reproduces the East-West geopolitical and civilizational cleavage, whilst the representation of Moldovan inferiority, historical debt and the Great Power Complex reiterates Moldova’s passivity and lack of agency. Through this Cold War representation of international affairs, national identity offers both the resources and the limits within which official Moldovan foreign policy articulations function. In this way, national identity is crucial in understanding the mechanisms through which foreign policy is legitimated and, especially, the validity and credibility of certain arguments and the unlikelihood of others.

I wrote The Names between the summer of 2015 and the spring of 2016. Also, I wrote it between the summer of 2006 and the spring of 2014 (a lot of The Names was taken from my journals [many of the names were taken from my journals (I am speaking of erasure)]). Thus, things happen with time. A train from the office. The rind of an orange, flitting out. I sit down. I am going, I say, to get likes, my bio filled out nicely. Like: What are you doing with your life? And me like: The rind! The rind! The rind! The rind! its meaning fading slowly through the back of the train. In the poem, I am a solitary and joking figure, tender for objects, working in spaces. I look out to the names.

La Rénovation Urbaine : une dialectique complexe entre renouvellement urbain et opération de renouveau de la vie sociale impose d’observer en quoi et comment le dispositif, engagé au titre de la politique de la ville, contribue à la transformation des rapports sociaux, recrée ou enrichit le lien social, et contribue à remédier au processus de marginalisation et de différenciation des populations. Inscrite dans le contexte socio historique des politiques publiques du logement, la mobilité résidentielle contrainte déclinée au titre de ces opérations, croise un phénomène spatial et un phénomène social, lesquels modifient l’environnement, bousculent les habitudes et déstabilisent certains fondamentaux du modèle de socialisation. Pour appréhender ces phénomènes déclinés au niveau de deux quartiers « qualifiés » au titre du dispositif national, l’étude réfère à l’interaction entre l’espace habité et l’individu-habitant doté de spécificités identitaire et interroge les transformations du rapport à l’espace de l’habitat impliquées par la mobilité.La qualification de l’attachement aux supports identitaires offerts par l’habitat articulé à ces changements a été observée dans sa dimension spatiale, axe relationnel essentialisé de la construction identitaire. L’analyse croisant apports conceptuels et investigations empiriques, accrédite l’hypothèse selon laquelle le processus identificatoire se manifeste plus en termes de tension entre une forme d’« assignation » résidentielle et la capacité à mettre en œuvre des stratégies d’investissement du nouveau lieu de vie, que comme un changement radical du rapport à l’espace, à soi et aux autres. A partir de ces conclusions assorties de précautions tenant au format et aux modalités de l’étude, il apparait que en termes d’enjeux identitaires et d’adoption ou de configuration de nouvelles normes sociales, la fonction de facteur de changement de la mobilité organisée par la Rénovation urbaine, conjugue, avec une intensité graduée, une logique d’acculturation dans l’espace, à une évolution culturelle dans le temps. / Urban Renovation: a complex dialectic between urban renewal and social renewal process require to observe and analyze in which and how the plan of actions engaged under the City Policy contributes to the transformation processing of social relations, recreates and enriches the social bond, and remedies to the marginalization process and people differenciation. Residential mobility "coercion" declined for these operations crosses a spatial phenomenon and a social phenomenon, which for people in social collective dwellings affected by these measures, jostle their habits, change some attributes of their environment and destabilize some fundamentals of socialization model.To apprehend these phenomena declined at two "qualified" areas under the national program of Urban Renovation, the study refers to the interaction between the living space and these occupants endowed with specific identity and questions relationship transformations with this space of the habitat to impose mobility. The attachment qualification to identity supports and references offered by the housing environment articulated in these changes was mainly observed in its spatial dimension, leading relational axis of the identity construction. The analysis crossing theoretical concepts and empirical investigations, accredits the hypothesis according to which the identificatory process occurs more in terms of tension between a form of residential assignment and the ability to implement strategies of investment of the new place of life, that as a radical change of the relationship in the space, in oneself and the others. Based on these findings accompanied by taking precautions with the study characteristics, the change factor function of the organized mobility by the Urban Renovation in terms of identity issues, and or adoption of new social standards configuration appears to share in a logic acculturation process in the space combined with a cultural change over time.

The current migration crisis has put significant strain on the European Union and its member states. Immigration has always been a contentious issue in societies, most often facing significant opposition. By drawing on postmodern theories of international relations and Discourse Theory, this paper analyses how immigration is being increasingly securitized by the European Union and its member states along with what makes securitization the hegemonic discourse. This is done primarily with reference to identity construction through the framing of the Other, in this case the migrant, as an unwanted and externalized element. Furthermore, the paper details how the framing of the migrant as a threat to the internal security of a country strenghtend identity politics across Europe. Finally, using the Brexit campaign in the UK, the paper analyzes how the rise in identity politics in turn raises the possibility of a successful fusion of the anti-immigration discourse with the anti-EU discourse through the exploiting of societal unease.

In broad terms — including a thief's use of existing credit card, bank, or other accounts — the number of identity fraud victims in the United States ranges 9-10 million per year, or roughly 4% of the US adult population. The average annual theft per stolen identity was estimated at $6,383 in 2006, up approximately 22% from $5,248 in 2003; an increase in estimated total theft from $53.2 billion in 2003 to $56.6 billion in 2006. About three million Americans each year fall victim to the worst kind of identity fraud: new account fraud. Names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and other data are acquired fraudulently from the issuing organization, or from the victim then these data are used to create fraudulent identity documents. In turn, these are presented to other organizations as evidence of identity, used to open new lines of credit, secure loans, “flip” property, or otherwise turn a profit in a victim's name. This is much more time consuming — and typically more costly — to repair than fraudulent use of existing accounts. This research borrows from well-established theoretical backgrounds, in an effort to answer the question – what is it that makes identity documents credible? Most importantly, identification of the components of credibility draws upon personal construct psychology, the underpinning for the repertory grid technique, a form of structured interviewing that arrives at a description of the interviewee’s constructs on a given topic, such as credibility of identity documents. This represents substantial contribution to theory, being the first research to use the repertory grid technique to elicit from experts, their mental constructs used to evaluate credibility of different types of identity documents reviewed in the course of opening new accounts. The research identified twenty-one characteristics, different ones of which are present on different types of identity documents. Expert evaluations of these documents in different scenarios suggest that visual characteristics are most important for a physical document, while authenticated personal data are most important for a digital document.

ABSTRACT The relationship between subjective age identity and ideal age, as measured by the Subjective Age Identity Scale (Hubley, 2004), and personality domains and facets, as measured by the NEO-PI-R (Costa & McCrae, 1992), was investigated in a sample of 210 adults ages 19 to 78. Subjective age and ideal age scores were regressed, using multiple standard regressions, on the NEO-PI-R domains and facets, respectively. Results indicated that 22% of the variance in subjective age identity scores was explained by personality domains whereas 27% was explained by personality facets. Specifically, two personality domains (Openness to Experience and Neuroticism) and one personality facet (Aesthetics) made significant unique contributions to the explained variance in subjective age scores. Very little variance in ideal age scores was explained by personality domains and facets (less than 10%). One domain (Openness to Experience) and two facets (Vulnerability to Stress and Values) made significant unique contributions to the explained variance in the ideal age scores. These findings are examined in the context of the previous research on the relationship between personality and subjective age and the importance of conducting both domain and facet level analyses when using the NEO-PI-R is discussed. Implications of the present findings for counselling and clinical work with persons facing age role transitions or other age related concerns (e.g., negative attitudes towards aging) are highlighted. / Education, Faculty of / Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of / Graduate