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There is always the inclination to idealise past migrations and only focus upon the conflicts of present migrations. The history of Haitian immigrants settling in Québec is not a recent one, but nevertheless it has known a destiny inverse to this general trend. In broad strokes this essay sketches a survey of this singular history from the first contact between these two former French possessions in America up to the establishment of a Haitian community on Québec soil, via the first Haitian immigrants to New France and the two peoples rediscovering each other in the first half of the last century. It examines the evolution of integration strategies for these Haitian immigrants to Québec society and the challenges taken up by their descendents.
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In the last five years, the Kashtin duo bas enjoyed remarkable success in Québec performing almost exclusively in their mother tongue.TheKashtin phenomenon affords a prime vantage point for surveying the progress of contemporary developments in popular music in Québec, whose complexity and impetus are thus revealed. Are Kashtin's popularity and special place in the Québec context an indication ofnew musical canons and emerging cultures? Posing this question at the outset, this article proceeds to delme some conceptual tools for the critical analysis of changing modes of discourse and changes in the power establishments, within which a redefinition of popular music, and of music in general, is taking shape in Québec.
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In this article, we analyze ethnographic data collected during the Congrès mondial acadien 2004, a globlalized tourist event. We describe the ideological tensions raised by globalization in the redefinition of Acadian identity. We observe that the emergence of public policies aiming at the commodification of Acadian identity for global markets is a source of conflict about the criteria for inclusion within Acadian discursive space. On the one hand, a group of modernizing social actors aims to reproduce a linguistic Acadie, targeting the institutionalization of francophone public spaces where the practice of French acts as a determinant factor for inclusion into Acadianité. On the other hand, globalizing actors try to mobilize a genealogical criterion to sell Acadian identity to a global public thereby defined as Acadian. This second strategy places emphasis on bilingualism as a mean for the inclusion of English-speaking Acadians and Cajuns. We conclude that in order to grasps the stakes of globalization for linguistic minorities, it is important to understand the economic conditions and the government frameworks which inform the transformations we were able to observe in discourse and practices at the Congrès mondial acadien 2004.
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If the mil to assert Us international status still remains vital to France's foreign policy, it cannot explain by itself a policy which has put more and more emphasis on international institutions since the end of the Cold War. Other motives must also betaken into account, notably : admitting its own lack of resources, evaluating the limits of a bilateral approach, wanting to contain us tendencies to unilateral actions and needing to assert its role as a first-class power. France is also attempting to have adopted norms of international conduct which only international institutions can impose. The three cases chosen - reform of the UN, sanctions against Iraq and terrorism -demonstrate the full complexity of the French decision to privilege international action through institutions from now on.
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Does Japan prefer to resort to international security regional or world organizations or use bilateral diplomacy ? In three case studies, this article examines the Japanese management of security issues related to Japan's immediate and global geostrategic environment. It establishes that despite Us keen interest to act through ISI and to contribute to multilateral diplomacy, Tokyo finds itself in a bilateralist bind. Japan's engagement in KEDO, a multilateral structure devoted to the dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear programme, and efforts to manage the territorial dispute with the People's Republic of China and Taiwan over the sovereignty of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands demonstrate that bilateralism is still the norm in Asia-Pacific despite the presence of informal networks. Tokyo's willingness to play a prominent role in the Security Council's reform has been met by various contestations which do not appear to encourage Japan's institutionalist quest.