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This contribution poses questions on the issues affecting field research in the regions disputed between Kurds and Arabs in northern Iraq. After raising various limits inherent in the specific nature of this research, the author takes the reader through the research as it took place and suggests a self-reflective analysis starting with identifying the methodological ambushes and ethical difficulties created by such a field for the researcher. He describes the conditions of his stay, his contacts with informants and his observations in a shadowy, tense environment bearing the marks of authoritarian power. He pays special attention to the conditions of opportunities for qualitative interactions in light of the security issues that he had to face while preserving an ethic of practice aimed at giving a voice to those who have none.

While various female authors have dealt with the changes in positionality implied by doing research as a feminist, few have lingered over what it means to do research in an Arab-Amazigh society with a Muslim majority as a native researcher (or insider). This article reviews, from the perspective of positional intersectional feminism, prior research focused on battered women in a working-class area near Rabat, and then provides possible explanations for methodological issues such as access in solidarity to a sensitive field, presentation to research subjects from the same social background, creating various kinds of relationships of trust and collecting painful stories. Beyond data construction, the article proposes a consideration of how to analyze the results, whether by giving meaning to cultural and religious justifications for domestic violence or by reporting on its intergenerational and inter-class manifestations among women.

The last twenty years have been marked by a shift to the right of Quebec's political spectrum, so much so that the 2018 provincial election resulted in a majority government led by Coalition Avenir Québec. This article examines the changes that such a political trajectory may have brought about in the demands and discourses of Quebec employers. Through a study of the briefs written by the Conseil du patronat du Québec and the Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec, we analyze the way in which these two organizations are responding to the recent changes in the Quebec political scene. We focus on those changes affecting Quebec nationalism, which has been revolving increasingly around identity-related themes after having abandoned the question of sovereignty and, more broadly, the constitutional question.

Keywords: patronat, nationalisme économique, politique budgétaire, politique linguistique, Conseil du patronat du Québec, Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec, employers, economic nationalism, fiscal policy, language policy, Conseil du Patronat du Québec, Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec

During the past twenty years, European prisons have faced a significant increase in the number of Muslim prisoners, to the point that in some institutions they can comprise more than half the prisoners. While various studies have examined the role of religion in the prison experience, and many have addressed Islam specifically, decisions about how Muslim offenders (particularly men) should be treated have often involved a security rhetoric, which, as a corollary, has sometimes obscured the role of Islam as a resource for dealing with the prison experience. Based on quantitative and qualitative material collected between 2018 and 2020 in England, Switzerland, and France, I shed light on individual mobilizations of the Islamic referential by inmates. I show how Muslim offenders' experiences of prison is a liminal religious event that exists on both the edge of society and the edge of prisoners' normal experience, helping prisoners cope with incarceration even if it is does not necessarily protect against recidivism. The article documents some liminal experiences of faith and suggests that more research is needed to understand how prisoners' faith can be a resource post-release to help realize rehabilitation goals.

Keywords: Islam, prison, religiosité, conversion, méthodes mixtes, Islam, prison, religiosity, conversion, mixed methods, Islam, cárcel, religión, conversión, métodos mixtos

In France, as in most western countries, immigrants are widely believed to be responsible for increased crime rates and media and political discussions often connect them with ”insecurity”. These concerns actually relate to two different situations: crimes committed by foreigners and crimes committed by those born in France to immigrant parents and thus holding French citizenship. This article, a critical survey of studies dealing with these situations, looks at both administrative data and qualitative and quantitative research. While police statistics cannot be used to measure the criminality of immigrants, they can be used to distinguish crimes committed by immigrants from those committed by citizens with immigrant backgrounds, such as the theft and physical violence classically seen among the poorest part of the population. Sociological research makes it possible to show that those born to immigrant parents of African origin are oveerrepresented among delinquents in some locations but that this is not uniformly true throughout the country. This finding points to the need to look at the effect of local contexts from a perspective that is both sociological and psycho-sociological.

Two interpretations dominate research on paternalistic leadership in Africa: on the one hand, cultural values are presented as a lever for mobilizing and involving people at work; on the other hand, this form of leadership is considered to hamper the expression of effective practices. These two approaches, taken separately, have limitations. To implement a change approach that takes these two dimensions into account, the integration of differences in rationalities and logic is postulated as a relevant perspective. Such a postulation contributes to the recognition of the rationality of the actors involved in this process.

Keywords: Leadership, Culture, Paternalisme, Changement, Afrique, Leadership, Culture, Paternalism, Change, Africa, Liderazgo, Cultura, Paternalismo, Cambio, África

Islam and LGBTQ+ experiences are often presented as mutually exclusive in Quebec's public discourse. In this article, we expose the perspectives on this matter of 8 LGBTQ+ Muslims living in Montreal, who we have interviewed. We will see how their stories, experiences and standpoint resist alieanating and restraining representations which render impossible the existence of LGBTQ+ muslims in the eyes of many. We will also present how the aknowlegdment of queer and Muslim subjectivities allows to take into consideration racism and islamophobia in LGBTQ+ communities in Quebec, as well as heterosexism and cissexism in Muslim communities.

Keywords: LGBTQ+, Islam, islamophobie, homonationalisme, homocolonialisme, Québec, intersectionnalité

This article presents data from a survey of 350 human resources managers and union representatives in Greater Montreal. The results reveal that recruitment, selection, professional advancement and equal access to employment practices of companies and the attitudes of respondents would initiate an unequal treatment of visible minority employees. In addition, the skills expected from professional advancement candidates indicate the presence of implicit rules, standards and practices in most of companies. However, this organizational culture compromises the visible minority right to equality a group that has historically been discriminated against.

Keywords: discrimination, minorités visibles, promotion en emploi

Critical management education (CME) aims at emancipating students from the domination effects of management doxa. This article intends precisely to challenge the paradox according to which CME must reconcile the critical normativity of the teacher and the ability of the students to emancipate themselves. It draws on an experiment of Rancière's equality method involving the students of a Master program in management in a French university. Our results highlight the significance, and the associated difficulties, of circumscribing CME to a minimal normativity of the teacher, as well as to give up on hierarchising the forms of emancipation taken on by students.

Keywords: Enseignement critiques, Méthode de l'égalité, Emancipation, Recherche-intervention, Critical education, Equality Method, Emancipation, Intervention research, Educación crítica, Método de igualdad, Emancipación, Investigación-intervención

Because they reveal the limits of family identity transmission mechanisms, religious conversions can inform and nuance the generational dynamics that seem to be at the roots of current radicalization movements. Drawing on the experience of Quebecois youth who have chosen to join Islam, I discuss the hypothesis of “generational divide” (Roy 2002) by examining the negotiations, compromises and adjustments that make up their family relationships, particularly around the issue of celebrating Christmas. I show that the moral critique that leads converts to dissociate themselves from the identity heritage bequeathed by their parents actually brings them closer to their grandparents' family model. This concern to perpetuate a lineage tradition carried by moral values reveals in fact a social and political project based on ideals of conviviality and solidarity.

Keywords: Islam, conversion, jeunes, famille, transmission identitaire, Islam, conversion, youth, family, identity transmission