Student Mobility and the Canadian Francophonie
The present era of globalization has given rise to new sociological questions on the different forms of mobility that characterize today’s societies (Urry, 2005), with student mobility sparking special interest (Pilote & Molgat, 2010). Issues linked to student mobility are not always closely related to the internationalization of higher education. In fact, the identity dynamics that exist in any mobility process can also be found within national borders.
Identité linguistique et poids des langues : une étude comparative entre des jeunes de milieu scolaire francophone au Nouveau-Brunswick et anglophone au Québec
Cet article porte sur la construction identitaire en milieu linguistique minoritaire au Canada. Partant d’une demarche qualitative comparative entre des jeunes d’un milieu scolaire francophone au Nouveau-Brunswick et anglophone au Quebec, il examine les processus a travers lesquels les jeunes construisent leur identite linguistique, c’est-a-dire a travers une negociation entre leur definition subjective de Soi et des identites transmises par Autrui (en particulier la famille et l’ecole). Les resultats sont presentes a partir de configurations identitaires liees au type de familles dont sont issus les jeunes interroges : endogames majoritaires, endogames minoritaires et exogames (francais et anglais). L’analyse demontre que si l’identification « bilingue » est presente chez les deux groupes de jeunes etudies, les enjeux qui s’y rattachent varient en fonction du poids relatif de l’anglais et du francais dans l’environnement nord-americain.
Do Arab public opinion support policies of regional powers in MENA? View from Tunisia
ABSTRACT The Arab Uprisings and subsequent events continue to transform policies of regional and major powers toward the Middle East and North Africa. These powers have shown different approaches toward the Uprisings, ranging from support for the status quo to endorsing regime changes. Their policies have also exerted a significant impact on the course of events. Despite this growing importance and implications of policies of regional powers on the Uprisings and the Syrian conflict, we still do not know much about how the public assesses these policies and to what extent domestic cleavages shape these assessments. Using a nationally representative original survey conducted in 2014 in Tunisia, this study examines the perceptions of the policies of France, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia towards the Uprisings and the Syrian conflict. It finds that French and Turkish policies about the Uprisings have garnered substantial support among citizens, whereas most citizens negatively assess the Saudi policies. On the other hand, the majority of Tunisians negatively assess all these countries’ policies toward the Syrian conflict. Another major finding suggests that political identity reflecting secular/religious cleavages shapes how citizens view the policies of these three countries toward both issues, but its effect is higher in assessing the Uprisings.