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Un temps à soi : Désinstitutionnalisation et individualisation de la vie familiale
No full textCet article analyse la manière dont les processus de désinstitutionnalisation et d’individualisation ont transformé les schémas symboliques reliant femmes et institution familiale durant les dernières décennies en Espagne et les répercussions de ces mutations sur la vie quotidienne. Nous mettons en regard la vie des « fonctionnaires domestiques » (Durkheim) durant le franquisme avec le discours actuel de femmes sur la gestion du temps quotidien. Ces transformations s’observent notamment dans la nécessité nouvelle de faire face, au-delà des problèmes de conciliation, à l’épreuve familiale, épreuve qui naît de la tension entre l’obligation morale envers autrui et la fidélité à soi-même. Postulant que cette épreuve est vécue de manière extrême par les femmes à la tête de familles monoparentales, nous étudions le quotidien de ces dernières et les stratégies permettant d’y faire face
Synoptic Prudentialism: The police, social media, and bureaucratic resistance
No full textThis paper examines police officer perceptions of risk when using (often official police) social media sites. We argue that for police it is not the ‘few observing the many’ model of panoptic surveillance that matters most; rather, it is the synoptic gaze of the ‘many observing the few’ that matters most. We propose a new concept, that of synoptic prudentialism, which we argue involves an individual’s or organization’s reflexive actions and adjustments in response to an acute awareness of ubiquitous social surveillance. Interviews with officers serving in rural areas of an Atlantic Canadian province reveal expressions of vulnerability in relation to potentially antagonist audiences online. Also, from the perspective of front-line officers who express a desire to use social media more informally to connect with online audiences, bureaucratic procedures and other formal regulations governing official police social media use constrains the potential to harness the synoptic gaze in productive ways
McCoy, Ted., Four Unruly Women: Stories of Incarceration and Resistance from Canada’s Most Notorious Prison.
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Should I Stay or Should I Go Home? Newcomer Employment Experiences in Mid-Sized Canadian Cities
No full textDespite changes to Canadian immigration policy to address declining labour market outcomes, many highly educated immigrants still face challenges when searching for career-related employment. Semi-structured interviews with 38 newcomer professionals in Edmonton, Alberta and Winnipeg, Manitoba illustrate significant obstacles including a lack of credential recognition, racial discrimination and a requirement for Canadian experience. Drawing from intersectional feminism and critical race theory, this study assesses the perspectives of newcomers during their employment search and explores the common desire for return-migration. Findings illustrate how the pre-arrival expectations of immigrants are incongruent with the realities of persistent labour market barriers. Newcomers consider if they should stay in Canada due to the lack of meaningful economic opportunities
Creese, Gillian, “Where Are You From?” Growing Up African-Canadian in Vancouver
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Tracking Precarity: Employment Pathways of Precarious Status Migrant Workers in Canada
No full textIn recent years the issue of migrant workers with precarious status has increased in importance in Canada, in large part due to economic and policy changes that have led to greater numbers of migrant workers remaining in the country post permit expiry. This study tracks the employment experiences of low-skilled migrant workers who arrived through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program and who remained following their permit expiry. Using a temporal analysis, the study identifies four timepoints that shape the workers’ employment outcomes both pre- and post-expiry. Events at these timepoints create differing employment pathways that, in turn, reveal different aspects of the workers’ precarity. In addition to pathways, workers’ ability to access informal support networks shape their employment outcomes as workers with precarious status
Symbolic Interactionism and the Myth Of Astructural Bias: A Textual Defense and Illustrative Advice
No full textSymbolic interactionism continues to be criticized from both inside and outside of interactionist circles by those who claim that the perspective does not address issues of social structure and fails to recognize constraints on human agency. In this paper, we critically address these claims and defend Blumerian symbolic interactionism from three versions of the charge of astructural bias and demonstrate how the perspective accounts for social structural forces. In doing so, we make reference to the classical roots of the perspective. We conclude with an illustrative and didactic example that demonstrates how even the most micro-oriented of interactionist research can still take account of social structural issues.
L’expérience subjective de la discrimination systémique: étude de cas sur la population québécoise d’origine latino-américaine
No full textCet article vise à contribuer à une meilleure connaissance théorique et empirique de l’expérience subjective de la discrimination systémique. L’approche adoptée relie l’acte discriminatoire, lui-même singulier et situé, au cadre sociétal qui le rend efficace. En retenant le cas de la population québécoise d’origine latino-américaine, on analyse les réponses d’environ un millier de ses membres afin d’observer les liens entre la victimisation et le bien-être subjectif, ainsi que les différentes façons dont ils se représentent comme cibles potentielles de discrimination, en tenant compte des différences dans les stéréotypes auto-rapportés par les femmes et les hommes. Les résultats de l’analyse montrent, entre autres, que les personnes ayant expérimenté de la discrimination affichent des niveaux de satisfaction moins élevés dans les variables liées au statut social subjectif. L’expérience subjective de la discrimination est associée au sentiment d’étrangéité ressenti, au bilan personnel du parcours migratoire et à la perception qu’a l’individu de sa position dans la société