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The work of Georg Simmel and members of the Chicago School, such as Robert E. Park, Ernest Burgess and Louis Wirth, offer arguments that are still relevant today for understanding the dynamics of intercultural relations in urban space. This research note offers a contemporary reinterpretation of these fundamental authors who participated in the development of both urban and immigration studies. A contemporary case study, drawing on narratives of North African immigrants in Montreal, will enable us to validate and renew the contributions of these authors in the field of intercultural relations. The narratives, collected as part of a research project on North African families in Montreal, examine the vicissitudes of their process of establishment in Quebec, revealing the relations of proximity and distance that mark their everyday interactions in the city. The narratives, privileged material of the Chicago School, invite us to reflect on the meaning given today to the Stranger in the city.
Keywords: Montgomery, Georg Simmel, École de Chicago, figure de l'Étranger, relations interculturelles, immigration maghrébine, Montréal, Montgomery, Georg Simmel, Chicago School, the Stranger, Intercultural Relations, North African Immigration, Montreal, Montgomery, Georg Simmel, Escuela de Chicago, imagen del Extranjero, relaciones interculturales, inmigración magrebí, Montreal
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How do Québécois films remember the Quiet Revolution? How do these films construct the event? The study of films produced in the 1960s and those produced afterwards which have the decade as their focal point help us answer the above questions. The article's themes of analysis are the following: the places in which the action unfolds, intergenerational relations and the characters' bonds to their community, nationalism, the here and the elsewhere, the attention paid to art and especially to music and finally the use of the film medium. While the winds of change were blowing in the Québec of the 1960s and while the protagonists in these films are young, the changes observed are not the same in films produced in the 1960s compared to those which focus on the decade with hindsight. In fact, they do not share the same approach to history and memory. The first group of films seek to make a clean sweep of the past and their characters evolve in a present sometimes devoid of a future while in the second group of films the protagonists possess both a genealogy and a destiny.
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Frequently used for demographic projections, microsimulations can also appraise the selection bias of retrospective surveys, especially when mortality rate estimates are based on reported deaths of the relatives of those surveyed. Although these selection biases are commonplace, they are liable to be much more severe during disease epidemics or in crisis situations (natural disasters or conflicts). Microsimulations enable sensitivity analysis of the scale of these biases according to the phenomena that generate them. They are also a way to appraise the effectiveness of approximated correlation indexes based on survey data in estimating crisis-related mortality correlation among families and in correcting selection biases. Applied to crisis-related mortality rates estimated from the Burundi 2002 household survey, this correcting process leads to a reappraisal of the numbers killed in the crisis of 1993 in Burundi.