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Les jeunes d’origine haïtienne au Cégep : un rapport aux études marqué par le genre ?
No full textCet article présente des résultats préliminaires d’une recherche menée dans deux cégeps montréalais et ayant documenté l’expérience aux études de jeunes d’origine haïtienne entre janvier 2017 et juin 2018. Des entretiens individuels ont été réalisés avec une trentaine d’étudiantes et étudiants ainsi qu’avec une vingtaine de membres du personnel des collèges (N=53). Bien que l’objectif de la recherche ne fût pas d’analyser explicitement les effets de l’appartenance de genre sur le rapport aux études, ces enjeux ont rapidement émergé du discours des participants, qui relèvent des différences marquées dans les comportements et pratiques des étudiantes et étudiants sur le plan de l’orientation, de la mobilisation dans les études et de la sociabilité. Les jeunes femmes se distingueraient par leur niveau élevé d’engagement et un fort volontarisme, tandis que leurs pairs masculins sont présentés comme étant moins motivés, moins persévérants et plus portés sur la sociabilité. Nous discutons des hypothèses évoquées par les membres du corps étudiant et du corps professionnel pour expliquer ces comportements différenciés selon le genre. Nous mettons en évidence les effets croisés du genre, de l’ethnicité et du milieu social sur la persévérance aux études postsecondaires des étudiantes et étudiants
Sexuality and Sexual Agency Among Heterosexual Black Men in Toronto: Tradition, Contradiction, and Emergent Possibilities in the Context of HIV and Health
No full textThis article critically examines common understandings of sexuality and sexual agency among heterosexual Black men in Toronto. The findings are based on focus groups and in-depth interviews conducted for the qualitative arm of the broader weSpeak project, a mixed-methods study designed to engage and support heterosexual Black men in Ontario, Canada, in living more holistically healthy lives. Focus groups and in-depth interviews with 69 self-identified heterosexual Black men focused on vulnerability and resilience to HIV, but participants also shared their complex experiences and perspectives related to sexuality and sexual agency, especially in the context of systemic and structural conditions that affect their wellbeing. This article provides excerpts from their narratives to illustrate the complexities and emergent possibilities related to sexuality and sexual agency among heterosexual Black men, which may open up new ways of approaching HIV prevention and health promotion
Occupational Demand, Cumulative Disadvantage, and Gender: Differences in University Graduates’ Early Career Earnings
No full textA number of mechanisms contribute to the gender earnings gap – both its level and trends in it. We focus on three of them: occupational demand, the cumulation of disadvantage that originates in the unequal domestic division of labour, and labour market statuses which also may originate in the domestic division of labour. We show that changes in occupational demand associated with the dot-com boom and what followed it have caused substantial shifts in the relative earnings of young male and female university graduates. We provide evidence of how one consequence of the domestic division of labour – differences in hours worked by gender - contribute to the size and growth of the female earnings disadvantage. And, even in our generally young sample, human capital accumulation is more likely to be disrupted for women than for men. We identify several methodological and substantive implications of our results
Jennifer N. Fish, Domestic Workers of the World Unite! A Global Movement for Dignity and Human Rights.
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Growing up African Canadian in Vancouver: Racialization, Gender and Sexuality
No full textVancouver is one of the most diverse cities in North America, with 49% of the population identifying as people of colour. However, residents who are racialized as Black or claim an African ethnic origin make up just over 1% of the population. These residents may constitute a hyper-visible minority in the local context, but they are firmly embedded in discourses about Blackness that transcend local geographies. Based on interviews with 35 adult children of immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa, this paper explores some of the ways that gendered and sexualized discourses of Blackness shape the lives of men and women in metro Vancouver. Interactions in public spaces include challenges to competency, honesty, and respectability, while private lives are marked by differences in heterosexual desirability that enhance the romantic prospects of men and limit those of women. The following discussion illustrates that processes of racialization are simultaneously gendered and sexualized
Huey, Laura and Broll, Ryan. Becoming Strong: Impoverished Women and the Struggles to Overcome Violence.
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Cultural Mixers: Race, Space, and Intercultural Relations among Youth in East-end Toronto
No full textThe objective of this study is to examine the way youth negotiate belonging in two priority neighbourhoods – Malvern and Chester Li – in Toronto’s east-end. It asks how youth experience belonging and negotiate difference in ‘priority neighbourhoods’. In what ways does space shape belonging and difference? In contrast to previous studies that are spatially decontextualized, I argue that neighbourhoods are the very sites where youth negotiate differences and connections as they engage with peers, families, friends and residents. The importance of space in studying youth’s sense of belonging is particularly valuable in Toronto where neighbourhoods are highly diverse and stratified. My work is inspired by Yuval-Davis’s (2006) notion of belonging and the politics of belonging and Bourdieu’s (1984) concepts of social field and habitus. I braid together a conceptual framework with the aim to achieve a more nuanced understanding of the ways power operates in the everyday context of ‘priority neighbourhoods’ and how processes of inclusion and exclusion and boundaries of belonging are demarcated