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Aller-retour : l’incidence des pratiques et rituels de socialité sur le parcours migratoire des immigrants français au Québec
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Blais, Pierre |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | The phenomenon of the return of immigrants to their country of origin has been little studied. Most often, the causes of this phenomenon are reduced to economic factors. In this perspective, unemployed immigrants or immigrants who occupy poor quality jobs are the most likely to return to their country of origin. This explanation does not appear to apply in the case of French immigrants settled in Q. These immigrants have a good quality of life and are generally well integrated into the local employment market. Strangely, they figure also amongst the first groups of immigrants to leave the province. The testimonies left on social media suggest that these immigrants leave the Belle Province due to frustration and a deep dissatisfaction with the local culture. Yet the French immigrants still present in Q say that they appreciate its culture of openness and freedom. This apparent paradox could be explained by variations in the practices and rituals of sociality of those two societies. The line between public and private would be blurrier in Q. It would not have a system as well organized and, whether in public or private, the same forms of sociality would be use indiscriminately. My data suggest that this undifferentiated sociality poses many difficulties on a personal level to those immigrants. The most important of these challenges concerns how quickly conducts that are considered to be markers of privacy and intimacy in France are exhibited in Q. Without being fundamentally incompatible with the French system, this variation would give the impression to French immigrants that they left a form of sociality where interpersonal relationships are established through time and incorporated an extremely open system where privacy appears to be establish through the first moments of the encounter. Although seemingly minor, that difference would have serious consequences. My results have shown that this "intimacy" would leave many French immigrants incertain of the consistency of their relations with Qers. Specifically, this familiarity would lead them to assume a certain "solidity" in their relations with their Q's counterpart. Only experience will enable them to see the "liquidity" of those links. This recognition would often occur in pain, causing discomfort that could lead to a deep resentment against Qers, Q's culture and Q in general. It is this discomfort rather than economic factors — in my opinion — that would initiate among these immigrants the desire to leave Q and return to France. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1866/18426/Blais_Pierre_2016_these.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=2 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
