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'Let me explain: this is who I am' : Interview with Anita Aloisio with Introduction by Dervila Cooke
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'Let me explain: this is who I am' : Interview with Anita Aloisio with Introduction by Dervila Cooke
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This interview with filmmaker and critic Anita Aloisio foregrounds her experience as a child of Italian immigrants in Montreal, and her 2007 documentary film "Les Enfants de la Loi 101." The author points out that Bill 101 (The Charter of the French Language), enacted by the Quebec Government in 1977, seeks to protect and promote French in Quebec. In the state educational domain, it requires most immigrants and Francophones to attend school in French. One of the aims of the law is to sensitize those of immigrant background to Quebec’s culture and to the state's interpretation of the province's historical situation. Through conversations with people of immigrant background in their mid-30s, who, like Aloisio herself, were among the first to experience this law at school, Aloisio shows both the law's benefits (many of which are substantial, she argues), and the at-times heavy-handed manner in which it has been applied.
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Citizenship and Belonging in France and North America : Multicultural Perspectives on Political, Cultural and Artistic Representations of Immigration
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Cham, Switzerland
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020
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151-168
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en
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978-3-030-30157-6
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Cooke, Dervila. “’Let Me Explain: This Is Who I Am’ : Interview with Anita Aloisio with Introduction by Dervila Cooke.” In Citizenship and Belonging in France and North America : Multicultural Perspectives on Political, Cultural and Artistic Representations of Immigration, edited by Ramona Mielusel and Simona Emilia Pruteanu, 151–168. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
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