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This article offers a reflection on a little or badly known social problem : the obstacles and factors of discrimination that many immigrant women, especially those belonging to racialized groups or visible minorities, encounter in their efforts to integrate within Quebec society. These difficulties contribute to make their situation more precarious in their efforts to integrate. This reflection throws some light on the factors that hinder or even compromise the socioeconomic integration of these immigrant women who strive under conditions of inequality, injustice and precariousness. She also gives the professionals who work with this population an informed perspective that can enable them to better take into account their living conditions. The author also calls for re-examining, from a perspective of gender-differentiated analysis, the public policies and social programs that currently prevail in the fields of immigration and integration.

This study evaluates the short-term behavioral outcomes of a cognitive- behavioral program delivered to adolescent females in a youth residential center. Other objectives include : to verify whether the effects varies according to the females' degree of participation in the program ; and to determine the effect sizes of the program. The evaluation design is quasi-experimental. The experimental and control group are composed respectively of 107 and 77 adolescent females. All participants have been assigned to a youth center for a continuous duration of at least three months. The results support the use of behavioral-cognitive interventions with adolescent females presenting problem behaviors. Half of the observed effects are clinically significant, especially when the degree of participation in the program is higher. Two other effects indicate that behavior modification is in progress. This study represents a first step in the evaluation of the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral programs for adolescent females presenting problem behavior.

Keywords: Évaluation, programme cognitif-comportemental, adolescentes, difficultés de comportement, Evaluation, cognitive-behavioral program, adolescent females, problem behavior, Evaluación, programa cognitivo-conductual, adolescentes, problemas de comportamiento

Irregular immigration in general, especially in relation to the exploitation of human being, as is the case with trafficking of people, is a great concern in many countries such as Canada. In 2002, Canada ratified the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. The majority of measures adopted by Canada in the fight against trafficking target migration control and the criminalization of traffickers, relegating the protection and assistance victims of trafficking to a secondary. In addition, several of these measures can victimize and even criminalize the victims. Temporary Resident Permits developed by Canada for victims of trafficking appear, from a victimological perspective, to be a step in the right direction. However, in practice, this measure is ineffective in reaching victims. This article presents, from a victimology and legal perspective, the progress and the gaps in legislation and the Canadian policy of protection and assistance to victims of trafficking.

Keywords: Traite des personnes, victimisation des femmes, protection des victimes, victimisation secondaire, Human trafficking, gender-based victimization, victim protection, secondary victimization, Trata de personas, victimización de las mujeres, protección de las víctima, victimización secundaria

AbstractThe street youth phenomena is an international and historical reality. It concerns all social classes, girls as well as boys and also even appears in social contexts where strict rules are applied. The study conducted in Montreal made use of anthropological fieldwork techniques. This article focuses on the street youth coping strategies. These young people pattern their attitudes on the relationship they had within their own family. Violence, abandonment and escape are expressed through the type of supplying relations, discontinuous relations, make-believes and instability.

This article tackles the paradoxical notion of poetic novelization by studying two poetry books written in French in the 2000's: Vivre sa vie : une novellisation en vers du film de Jean-Luc Godard by Jan Baetens and Flip-Book by Jérôme Game. Although both books share the same principle –narrating films–, I will show that they are in fact very different in the way they envision the relationship between literature and film: by differentiation or by imitation.

Keywords: novellisation, poésie contemporaine, Jan Baetens, Jérôme Game, littérature et cinéma, intermédialité, novelization, contemporary poetry, Jan Baetens, Jérôme Game, literature and film, intermediality

This article concerns the circulation of money in Putain by Nelly Arcan (2001). Money is paid to the sex-worker by clients for sexual services rendered, and she then pays a part of that money to the agency which rents and maintains the room in which she works. What does she, who claims to be earning “a lot of money,” do with the rest? In order to maintain her value on the high-priced escort market, Cynthia has to invest in the production of femininity, handing over money to other men (owners of large companies, plastic surgeons, etc.). However, the sex-worker also takes on other expenses that lead her to convert her erotic capital into symbolic capital.

In late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Saint-Henri, the street was a contested space. The local elite's municipal management of public space conflicted with the popular social use of the streets, both in the design and promotion of the main commercial street, rue Notre-Dame, and in the moral regulation of street behaviour. Political negotiation was limited to male property owners, for restrictions on the municipal franchise in a bourgeois liberal democracy excluded most women, many tenants, and all street vagrants. Mounting public debt resulting from the promotional politics of expropriation and bonusing incited popular resistance and, in 1905, led to annexation to the city of Montreal. The local elite directed the use of public space in ways that conformed with their private perspectives. Local by-laws and policing efforts largely succeeded in eliminating or displacing criminal and disruptive behaviour on rue Notre-Dame by day, but nightly disturbances and illicit activities were common on adjoining residential streets, in hidden areas, and in the neighbouring community of Sainte-Cunégonde. A wider range of primary sources, including photographs and sketches, are crucial to disclosing the class and gendered nature of street life.