Quels sont les processus mémoriels (analogues à une mémoire sélective) par lesquels une collectivité assure les assises de la transmission identitaire à travers plusieurs générations? Alors que certains sociologues définissent la société postmoderne comme résultant de la fin des…
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The Montreal Botanical Garden, a 180-acre complex comprised of over thirty outdoor and ten indoor landscapes located in the city's east-end, is the product of a Depression-era government funded Public Works project. Its founding director, preeminent botanist Frère Marie-Victorin…
Lorsqu'elle provient d'un héritage culturel aux valeurs traditionnelles, la famille immigrante se trouve confrontée à un nouveau standard de vie offert par la société d'accueil. L'abandon d'un environnement familier, le phénomène de déracinement suscité par le choc des différenc…
Employing a non-random sample survey and in-depth interview, I explore the relationship between ethnic and religious identity retention among Arab-origin students from five Cegeps in Montreal. Being non-random, this sample is not representative of the whole population of Arab-or…
In the 1970s the Canadian government took a strong stand against apartheid sport policies. Despite Canada’s limited sporting links with South Africa, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his Liberal government took on a leading Commonwealth position in promoting the isolati…
The goal of this practicum is to design a public market that's forms foster and promote exchange in the public realm of a community that is lacking many amenities and resources. The practicum explores spatial configurations of numerous markets in Turkey, Syria and Montreal in or…
Par l'analyse des constructions de la mémoire chez des Juifs montréalais d'origine marocaine, cette recherche a comme objectif de comprendre l'aménagement des récits identitaires qui composent ces mémoires. Ce groupe, dont l'immigration à Montréal n'a débuté qu'à la fin des anné…
This thesis examines the development of Yiddish literary culture in Montreal, Canada during its nascent period between 1905 and 1940. The focus is on Montreal's pre-Holocaust Yiddish literary life, and its proponents: A. Almi, Reuben Brainin, H. M. Caiserman, N. Y. Gotlib, Hersh…
This ethnographic study explores the language choice decisions of female, working-class immigrants in an on-the-job training center specialized in industrial sewing in Montréal. It aims to describe how Arabic and Bengali speakers use language to maintain or cross cultural bounda…
This exploratory research aims to study academic and social integration of teenagers of Iranian origin recently arrived in Québec. It attempts to identify conflicts of values between parents and these teenagers and to discover identity strategies of these teenagers vis-a-vis the…
An overwhelming majority of Black students in Québec (87.4%) attend school in the French sector, while 12.6% go to English schools. Accordingly, the majority of what we know about Black youth in the province is informed by the French language literature, which tends to emphasize…