Résumé Notre recherche porte sur l'identité ethnique des jeunes d'origine immigrée (portugaise, grecque, salvadorienne et chilienne) à Montréal. Malgré la remise en question des notions d'ethnicité et d'identité ethnique qui se poursuit depuis quelques décennies, ce domaine de recherche reste encore marqué par des perspectives essen-tialisteü qui ne coïncident pas avec les données de notre enquête. Les jeunes interviewés expriment des identités ethniques assez fluides et qui sont caractérisées par de multiples appartenances. Ils présentent leur identité: ethnique comme une source d'enrichissement plutôt que de conflits qui n'engendre pas chez eux un sentime:nt d'infériorité. Nous examinons ces résultats à la lumière de facteurs contextuels relatifs au milieu montréalais ainsi qu'au groupe d'âge des interviewés. Il nous apparaît qu'il faut questionner la conceptualisation de l'identité ethnique telle qu'elle concerne les jeunes d'origine immigrée.

Research in Quebec by a team that I direct indicates that religious collectivities still have very important roles to play despite the individualization of religion and the changing relations between individuals and religious institutions. The analysis focuses on the smaller, more marginal spiritualities that attract native-born Québécois, who often maintain some ties with the Catholic Church. Here we find abundant evidence of individualized, hybrid spiritualities but we also see that religious sociality remains essential for maximizing the effectiveness of religious (spiritual) practice, providing a framework for religious apprenticeship, supporting those in ritually produced altered states of consciousness, and validating religious authenticity of the practices and beliefs of participants. While collectivities remain important in more mainstream religious congregations (Catholics and Pentecostals, for example), the specifically religious elements of communality in these groups are sometimes obscured. By examining more marginal currents, we try to show the enduring power of religious sociality.

The reorganization of health care in Quebec, as in the rest of Canada, has helped reinforce inequities based on gender, race, ethnic status, etc. in employment in this field. Home health care workers in Quebec, called auxiliaires, are mostly women, frequently immigrants, and often immigrant women of colour. Their jobs are low status and badly paid, yet auxiliaires express a high degree of attachment to the work and find it highly rewarding. We suggest this is largely due to the worker's mobility and physical distance from the institutions that employ them; this allows them considerable autonomy and gives them the freedom to provide service beyond the requirements of the job. Drawing on recent analyses of Mauss' notion of the gift, as well as Tronto and others, we look at 'giving' in home health care, and its implications for the workers.

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