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A qualitative study was conducted within the Francophone minority community (FMC) of London, Ontario to explore the integration experiences of French-speaking immigrants from visible minority groups. We address how shifts to place and identity experienced following international migration influenced the study participants' negotiation of belonging within the host community. The ethnographic approach to research was guided by a theoretical framework drawing on geographical and sociological literature critically attending to power and place. Findings focus upon the negotiation of two key tensions influencing belonging. First we address the tension between Canada's official bilingualism and the Francophone immigrants' lived bilingualism within the local FMC. We then discuss the research participants' everyday experiences of displacement and exclusion as embedded within a context of official multiculturalism. The findings serve to illustrate ways in which belonging is negotiated in relation to the politics of place.Négocier l'appartenance après la migration : une exploration de la relation entre le lieu et l'identité dans les communautés francophones en situation minoritaire Une étude qualitative menée au sein de la communauté minoritaire francophone de London, Ontario, a pour but d'explorer les expériences d'intégration d'immigrants francophones issus des minorités visibles. L'analyse porte sur l'influence qu'exercent les changements de lieu et d'identité vécus par les participants à la suite de leur migration internationale sur la manière de négocier leur appartenance à la communauté d'accueil. La recherche, dont l'approche est de type ethnographique, est fondée sur un cadre théorique se référant aux écrits scientifiques en géographie et en sociologie qui posent un regard critique sur le pouvoir et le lieu. Les constats qui s'en dégagent renvoient à deux tensions principales au coeur de la négociation sur l'appartenance. Il est d'abord question de la tension entre le bilinguisme officiel du Canada et le bilinguisme vécu localement par les immigrants francophones au sein de la communauté francophone en situation minoritaire. Les expériences quotidiennes de déplacement et d'exclusion des participants à la recherche sont ensuite abordées sous l'angle du multiculturalisme officiel. Les résultats ont permis de mettre en évidence des façons de négocier l'appartenance en lien avec les politiques relatives au lieu.

Despite the political and social transformation set in motion by the collapse of apartheid and the advent of democracy in 1994, South Africa's migration policy remained mired in the past. The Aliens Control Act of 1991 continued to govern the country's policy until the passage of the Immigration Act of 2002. After amendment in 2004, the Act finally came into force in July 2005. This paper focuses on the implications for South Africa and the SADC region of persisting with a policy framework devised in the apartheid period. First, the mine migrant labour system has remained intact despite a prolonged economic crisis in the mining industry. Second, the national introspection of the first democratic government led to a major decline in legal migration and immigration to South Africa. Third, apartheid-era tactics of migration enforcement intensified through a process of 'violent othering'. Fourth, the old framework was sexist as well as racist, and while the new policy is gender neutral in language, it is not gender equal in effect. Finally, for a decade, South Africa successfully resisted SADC attempts to develop a regionally harmonised approach to cross-border migration. Recent changes in South African Government policy, particularly the new JIPSA initiative, suggest that the 'lost decade' may finally be over. However, without major policy transformation, the unseemly history of post-apartheid migration policy will continue. Copyright (c) 2007 by the Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG.

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