Publiée depuis 2000, la revue Diversité Urbaine, précédemment intitulée Les Cahiers du Gres (volumes 1 à 6), s'intéresse aux nouvelles formes culturelles, à l’ethnicité, aux relations ethniques, à l’immigration et aux dynamiques sociales tant au Québec qu’à l’étranger. Cette revue se veut être un lieu pluridisciplinaire de publication, tant pour les jeunes chercheurs que pour les chercheurs confirmés dont les travaux s’inscrivent dans une démarche empirique. Les papiers, en français ou en anglais, peuvent prendre la forme d’articles ou de notes de recherche.
Until very recently, historical studies on immigration in France have focused mainly on the integration of foreigners into a French society perceived as culturally homogenous. The objective of this research is to show, at a local level (the city of Saint-Étienne), how immigrant populations have appr...
This article is based on reflexions about the exile of Algerians living in Montreal from the 1990s onwards. These Algerians make up a specific population since they were all integrated into occupations before their departure and had no migration project. I aim to show the importance of professional...
Drawing on fieldwork conducted in a West African evangelical congregation in Montreal, I argue that the religious community substitutes for the community left behind in the home country, I also show that it plays a central role in its members’ adjustment to the host society. First, I describe this c...
The expression « extreme violence » is employed by scholars to refer to highly variable contexts, that are marked by violence, rage, hatred, massacres, and all that can be called cruelty. My aim is to account for the dehumanizing of the other who is being annihilated. The ethnic conflict in ex-Yugos...
The feminization of migration is one of the phenomena that characterize the contemporary globalization and it is present in Canada and Quebec. This phenomenon affects all ethnic groups and social classes, professionals and nonprofessionals. However there exist few studies on the process of insertion...
Neighbourhoods are socially constructed spaces for people who have multiple identities and trajectories. This multiplicity is often neglected when neighbourhoods are described by one-dimension attributes that do not reflect the different realities of the social actors (residents, community workers,...
In this article, I discuss how some Andean migrants to the urban periphery of Lima (Peru) reacted to the political violence and economic crisis of the 80s and 90s by turning to the messianic millenarian movement of the Israelites of the New Universal Covenant. I explore the strategies of adaptation,...
Montreal’s interethnic dynamic does not correspond to any known occidental model. In the city’s postmodern cultural maelstrom, plural identity referents are the norm. Located in the heart of the city, the Mile-End neighbourhood synthetizes and symbolizes better than any other the city’s plural and h...
In the midst of globalisation, and in the context of certain new ideas about the linguistic future of Quebec, Stefanescu and Georgeault’s recent book, Le français au Québec, les nouveaux défis, notes that linguistic diversity has recently attracted wide attention. Indeed, this book reveals the need...
This article examines the language practices and discourse of employees and management in a Montreal business currently expanding into new markets in the USA and Mexico. Findings from this ethnographic study reveal the strong presence of a French-English “technolect” that draw on English terms used...
I present an ethnographic model that relates culture and development to the migration process that has brought Senegalese to Andalusia. I criticize the official “aid for development” position, and examine the role of migrants residing in the receiving country. I show how the Senegalese Mourides in c...