Gestions politiques de l'intégration des immigrants et des minorités ethnoculturelles à Montréal et à Laval (1960-2008)

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Gestions politiques de l'intégration des immigrants et des minorités ethnoculturelles à Montréal et à Laval (1960-2008)
Abstract
The author points out that although they share many institutional characteristics, the cities of Laval and Montreal have followed different trajectories with respect to the political management of the integration of immigrants and ethnocultural minorities. In studying the differences, the author proposes an analytic framework focusing on the relationship of four factors: intergovernmental relations, the political-administrative organisation of the municipality, the relations with organised civil society and citizens, norms and discourse; and on two mechanisms of change -- a mechanism of open interest intermediation, characterised by recognition by the municipality of the legitimacy of the interests of immigrants and ethnocultural groups being represented as such, and a mechanism of closed interest intermediation, that is one in which the legitimacy of group representation is not recognised. The author argues that between 1960 and 2008 the two cities' trajectories moved through three sequences. The first was from a situation of non-management of integration to one of institutionalised political management. The differing characteristics of this passage in each case followed from the different mechanisms of interest intermediation, an open one in the case of Montreal and one of closed interest intermediation in the case of Laval. The third sequence was one of institutional development of the political management of the integration of immigrants and ethnocultural minorities structured by an adjustment in the mechanism of intermediation. Institutional innovations in Laval were shaped by the regionalisation of the mechanism of closed mediation while in Montreal institutional innovations followed from a mechanism of open intermediation that was decentralised.
Type
PhD dissertation
University
Université de Montréal
Place
Montréal
Date
2008
Language
fr
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Fourot, Aude-Claire. “Gestions politiques de l’intégration des immigrants et des minorités ethnoculturelles à Montréal et à Laval (1960-2008).” PhD dissertation, Université de Montréal, 2008. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescanada/vol2/QMU/TC-QMU-6489.pdf.
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