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AbstractPierre Landreville was a key figure of the prisoner's rights movement in Quebec, as well as in Canada and beyond. His seminal work, Les prisons de par ici, which was based on his research in Quebec prisons and published in 1976, was premised on two main postulates. Firstly, that imprisonment is only justified for offenders who pose a real threat to society, and secondly, that a person confined to prison retains all of his civil rights, apart from those expressly or implicitly taken from him by law. The author examines the developments which have occurred during the last three decades with regards to Landreville's postulates. She concludes that while prisoners' rights have now found legislative expression in Canada, the incarceration rate remains high, and imprisonment continues to be an important exclusionary mechanism for the most vulnerable groups of society.
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Over the past few years, we have witnessed renewed debate on the identity of “old” French Canada. Many interpretations oppose one another and postulate distinct approaches regarding the future of francophonie in a minority setting. This debate has given rise to two major trends or schools of thought which have distinguished themselves in the Francophone minority setting : the postnationalist school associated with the University of Toronto and the works of Monica Heller and Normand Labrie, and the French-Canadian neonationalist school found in the works of Martin Meunier at the University of Ottawa and Joseph-Yvon Thériault at Université du Québec à Montréal. For the former scholars, the reference to French Canada refers to a bygone era. It recalls a genealogical discourse, potentially conservative and backward-looking. For the latter scholars, the representation of French Canada in a Francophone minority setting attests rather to a national ambition which refuses to disappear. This article looks at the confrontation between these two schools of thought. The article illuminates a part of the identity debate, but the opposition between these two schools might be more artificial than we are generally inclined to believe.
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Often people migrate through interstitial zones and categories between state territories, policies, or designations like “immigrant” or “refugee.” Where there is no formal protection or legal status, people seek, forge, and find safe haven in other ways, by other means, and by necessity. In this article, I argue that U.S. war resisters to Canada forged safe haven through broadly based social movements. I develop this argument through examination of U.S. war-resister histories, focusing on two generations: U.S. citizens who came during the U.S.-led wars in Vietnam and, more recently, Afghanistan and Iraq. Resisters and activists forged refuge through alternative paths to protection, including the creation of shelter, the pursuit of time-space trajectories that carried people away from war and militarism, the formation of social movements across the Canada-U.S. border, and legal challenges to state policies and practices.
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