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Through an ethnographic study made in a Montreal neighbourhood and focused on perinatal periods and migratory processes, this article gives the point of view about the son preference norm of five women originally from North India who recently immigrated to Montreal, as well as their experiences of giving birth to and mothering daughters. The narratives show a deconstruction of the son preference norm, through critics or a coexistence of a desire for a son with a valorization of girls. Non-exclusive to a territory, this norm is therefore not set in stone, but shifting, fluid and contested, here and elsewhere. In addition, the narratives show that post-migration structural issues (systemic barriers, unstable migratory statutes, lack of social networks and cultural practices) seem to be much more relevant on the reproductive trajectories of the women met, thus putting into perspective, and relativizing the importance for these women of having a son. This article highlights the need for more research focusing on the intersection between those structural issues and the expression of this norm, within collaborative approaches.
Keywords: Schneider, Inde, préférence au fils, valorisation des filles, politique de la reproduction, périnatalité, immigration, Schneider, India, son preference, girls' valorization, politics of reproduction, perinatal period, immigration, Schneider, India, preferencia del hijo varón, valorización de las niñas, política de la reproducción, perinatalidad, inmigración
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In this paper we attempted to reveal some conceptual affinities or similarities between Buddhism and Structuralism. In the introduction we tried to characterize the limit and nature of this work in mentioning the lack of fundamental studies on the whole history of the influence that Buddhism hadd on the French human sciences of the 20th century. We want to make clear that this investigation is not a comparative philosophy in a strict sense. Meanwhile a certain comparativism was executed to find out some analogies in the deep structure of two great roads of human thinking. This article intends to focus on some convergences instead of divergences to examine the metaphysical foundations of two structuralist thinkers, Saussure and Lévi-Strauss, in Buddhist philosophy. The author evoked three main themes: emptiness, criticism of self, deconstruction of anthropocentrism.
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Between the Indian Supreme Court's 2014 ruling recognizing a “third gender” and the implementation of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act in 2019, numerous demonstrations took place across the country. The aim was to protest certain legislative measures in the pipeline. For the first time, the people concerned were able to express themselves through numerous debates about their rights as citizens and about the gender diversity they embody. The term transgender, retained in the law, does not allow for all contexts, languages, and regional differences to be expressed. Based on a portrait of two transgender activists and an ethnography of the vernacular terminology used in Assam and Manipur, two regions little known in studies of sexual and gender minorities in India, I examine the different levels of demands and influences involved in the process of constructing the identity of transgender people.
Keywords: Arrago-Boruah, transgenre, Inde, loi, nationalité, Indigène, Assam, Manipur, Arrago-Boruah, transgender, India, law, nationality, Indigenous, Assam, Manipur, Arrago-Boruah, transgénero, India, derecho, nacionalidad, Indígeno, Assam, Manipur