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Setting up a dialogue between a corpus of French Canadian folk songs from Detroit collected by Marcel Bénéteau and travel accounts among the nations of the Pays d'en Haut by Louis Hennepin (1676-1680 : Iroquois, Illinois, Sioux), Jean-Baptiste Truteau or Trudeau (1794-1796 : Arikaras, Sioux) and Pierre- Antoine Tabeau (1803-1805: Arikaras, Sioux). Three viewpoints: condemnation in the name of faith, reason, nostalgia. Analysis of the main lines of tension between the colonial and First Nation cultures: family, marriage and sexuality, community, war, psychotropic substances (tobacco and alcohol), religion, song. An enigma: why this absence of love songs in Amerindian country? An answer: not the rise of the individual but rather the sources of the self in Gemeinschaft or Geseilschaft type societies.

Stemming from fieldwork conducted in Seine-Saint-Denis (ethnographies of migrant Romanian Romas and the public actions created for them), this article proposes a reflection on the forms and conditions for the “success” stories stemming from the provision of social accompaniment and relocation (“insertion projects”). Such projects show how actors “bricole” or make-do in order to stay the course in the changing and uncertain context of the city reimagining itself in order to include or make room for this group. Above and beyond Roma migrants, this reflection hopes to contribute to the debates on the value of informality and inherent misunderstandings in the context of social integration.

This article rethinks women's homelessness from a woman's point of view. Using a participatory approach that includes a recognition committee, the research was based on the speech and knowledge of itinerant women, a marginal epistemology, theories of recognition, and feminist criticism. Its aim was to move away from individualistic readings and instead emphasize the structural and systemic issues these women experience that make them socially invisible and vulnerable, making it difficult for them to lead more normal lives. Taking this perspective on women's homelessness makes it possible to construct appropriate responses to homelessness based on human rights.

Keywords: Itinérance, femmes, invisibilité/visibilité sociale, recherche participative, épistémologie de la marge, intervention, Homeless women, social invisibility/visibility, participatory research, marginal epistemology, social responses, Vida en la calle, mujeres, invisibilidad/visibilidad social, investigación participativa, epistemología de la marginalidad, intervención

In large part due to feminist interventions in the early 1990s about the dangers of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) for women, Canada banned several practices related to ARTs when it enacted the Assisted Human Reproduction Act (AHRA) in 2004. Notably, the AHRA prohibited commercial surrogacy. Feminists feared that a market in surrogacy would exploit and objectify marginalized Canadian women who would be pressured into renting out their wombs to bear children for privileged couples. Since the early feminist deliberations that led to the ban, surrogacy has globalized. Canadians and other citizens of the Global North routinely travel to the Global South to source gestational surrogates. In doing so, they partake in an industry that heavily depends on material disparities and discursive ideologies of gender, class, and race. Indeed, the transnational nature of surrogacy treatment substantially reshapes the earlier feminist commodification debates informing the AHRA that took the domestic sphere as the presumed terrain of contestation. Due to the transnational North-South nature of surrogacy, a postcolonial feminist perspective should guide feminist input on whether to allow commercial surrogacy in Canada. I argue that when this framework is applied to the issue, the resulting analysis favours legalization of commercial surrogacy in Canada as well as public funding for domestic surrogacy services and ancillary ARTs.

In recent years both scholars and those who provide community supervision of offenders have called for a new supervision paradigm grounded in an understanding of the desistance process. The current inquiry examines this process in a community-based sample of 28 young pregnant or parenting women with histories of substance dependence and criminal offending. Their experiences are explored through the concepts of social and human capital. The results demonstrate the advantages of social capital but reveal the reality of extremely limited social networks for these women, including few positive peers, under-resourced families, and, frequently, abusive romantic relationships. Additionally, women parenting young children in these adverse contexts face significant barriers to obtaining education and employment. The analysis concludes with recommendations for supporting desistance and recovery in this population.

Keywords: Désistement assisté, maternité, femmes, toxicomanie, Assisted desistance, motherhood, women, substance use, Desistimiento asistido, maternidad, mujeres, abuso de sustancias

Aim : The current study advances our understanding of the level of trauma-related symptoms reported in emerging adulthood among a sample of out-of-care females who experienced child sexual abuse. To obtain a more comprehensive understanding of the experience of sexual abuse, the impact of a number of characteristics was investigated : severity, variety, chronicity, identity of the perpetrator, frequency, and age of onset. Method : The sample was composed of 133 young adult females who had transitioned out of residential care. Sexual abuse was assessed retrospectively using an adjusted version of a sexual abuse survey developed by Finkelhor et al. (1990) ; trauma-related symptoms were assessed using the Trauma Symptom Inventory-2 (Briere, 2011). Results : Young adult females who had experienced sexual abuse had much higher levels of trauma-related symptoms than those without such a history. Additionally, females who reported more severe forms (rape), various types (variety), and more persistent (chronicity) experiences of sexual abuse showed elevated levels of trauma-related symptoms, such as intrusive thoughts, insecure attachments, and defensive avoidance. Differences in frequency, identity of the perpetrator, and onset were less predictive of the level of trauma-related symptoms. Conclusion : Assessment of the specific characteristics of sexual abuse confirms the need to support females who have experienced persistent and diverse experiences of sexual abuse in developing secure relationships.

Keywords: Agression sexuelle, symptômes liés au trauma, début de l'âge adulte, femmes, centre de réadaptation, Sexual abuse, trauma-related symptoms, emerging adulthood, females, residential care, Violencia sexual, síntomas ligados al traumatismo, principio de la edad adulta, mujeres, centro de rehabilitación