National minorities, immigration, and responsibility: French Canada as a case study, 1840–1960
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Yves Frenette
Abstract
In some host countries and regions where national minorities coexist, the latter’s relative weight and relations to each other and to the majority may be the most decisive factors in influencing representations of and policies towards immigrants and refugees. This has been the case for French Canadians who generally perceived immigration - especially non-Catholic and non-francophone immigration - as strengthening the anglophone majority, and thus weakening the French Canadians and threatening their very cultural survival in a hostile continent. Up to 1960, French Canadians opposed immigration and categorized immigrants as those who were ideal, i. e., Franco-Catholic immigrants; those who were tolerated, i. e., non-francophone Catholic immigrants; and those who were undesirable, i. e., non-Catholic immigrants, especially Jews.
Abstract
In some host countries and regions where national minorities coexist, the latter’s relative weight and relations to each other and to the majority may be the most decisive factors in influencing representations of and policies towards immigrants and refugees. This has been the case for French Canadians who generally perceived immigration - especially non-Catholic and non-francophone immigration - as strengthening the anglophone majority, and thus weakening the French Canadians and threatening their very cultural survival in a hostile continent. Up to 1960, French Canadians opposed immigration and categorized immigrants as those who were ideal, i. e., Franco-Catholic immigrants; those who were tolerated, i. e., non-francophone Catholic immigrants; and those who were undesirable, i. e., non-Catholic immigrants, especially Jews.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Foreword V
- Table of Contents VII
- Responsibility for integration 1
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Witnessing
- Bearing witness: The burden of individual responsibility and the rule of law 9
- De-integration of young Syrian activists in Paris 25
- Understanding the challenges of integration from the refugee perspective 41
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Barriers and challenges
- The legacies of race and postcolonialism: Taking responsibility for migration 51
- Historical perspectives on migrant integration in Atlantic Canada, 1812–1825 65
- National minorities, immigration, and responsibility: French Canada as a case study, 1840–1960 81
- Less “human” than us: dehumanisation as a psychological barrier to the integration of migrants 99
- The role of trauma and cultural distance in refugee integration 113
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Responding
- Newcomer integration, individual agency, and responsibility 131
- Why volunteers should be activists: towards an ethics of ground relationships 149
- Applying behavioural science to refugee integration 165
- The practice of newcomer integration and importance of perspectives 183
- Perspectives on individual responsibility in the context of refugee and migrant integration 193
- Cyberhate against academics 205
- Day 1 227
- List of contributors 231
- Index 233
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Foreword V
- Table of Contents VII
- Responsibility for integration 1
-
Witnessing
- Bearing witness: The burden of individual responsibility and the rule of law 9
- De-integration of young Syrian activists in Paris 25
- Understanding the challenges of integration from the refugee perspective 41
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Barriers and challenges
- The legacies of race and postcolonialism: Taking responsibility for migration 51
- Historical perspectives on migrant integration in Atlantic Canada, 1812–1825 65
- National minorities, immigration, and responsibility: French Canada as a case study, 1840–1960 81
- Less “human” than us: dehumanisation as a psychological barrier to the integration of migrants 99
- The role of trauma and cultural distance in refugee integration 113
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Responding
- Newcomer integration, individual agency, and responsibility 131
- Why volunteers should be activists: towards an ethics of ground relationships 149
- Applying behavioural science to refugee integration 165
- The practice of newcomer integration and importance of perspectives 183
- Perspectives on individual responsibility in the context of refugee and migrant integration 193
- Cyberhate against academics 205
- Day 1 227
- List of contributors 231
- Index 233
