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The elderly women of Paris present a particular demographic profile throughout the first half of the XIX tn century. Firstly, they are more numerous than their male counterparts, and this factor is known to augment with age. Secondly, they are more often widows or unmarried than males. Doubtless it is for this reason that they suffered from great economic instability and actually comprised the least fortunate part of Parisian society at the time. Few of their contemporaries however are known to have been preoccupied with the problem. Several accounts confirm the extreme poverty of these women, yet we know little if anything of their actual daily existence. Only recently has their situation begun to interest historians, and a number of fundamental questions remain to be explored.
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Based on her research into the colonial heritage as well as the contemporary practices of Canadian immigration, the author proposes to think through the notion of immigration spectacle as a central way to understand the nation as institutionally « imagined » through immigration. The article elaborates the notion of immigration spectacle by briefly sketching two concepts that betray the sexualized contours of immigration : the peopling of the nation, and the desirable immigrant. From there, the author delineates a historical site that reveals the colonial bases of immigration spectacle : that of early Canadian government immigration promotion. The article closes close with a few questions raised by this research, by pointing to some contemporary sites of immigration spectacle.