« C’est toujours la même routine », mais… : modes d’habiter des travailleurs du mégachantier hydroélectrique de la rivière Romaine (Côte-Nord, Québec, Canada)

Guimond, Laurie; Desmeules, Alexia

doi:10.3917/ag.722.0369

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“…Scholarly research on Nordic mobilities also focuses on the effects of FIFO workers' commuting on their families and on host and departure communities, from economic, cultural, political, and community‐related perspectives (local involvement and health impacts on workers) ( Desbiens, ; Ferguson, ; Guimond & Desmeules, ; MacDonald, Sinclair, & Walsh, ; Storey, ; Taylor & Simmonds, ; Vallières, ; Walsh, ). This overwhelming focus on the FIFO resource sector, and especially mine workers therein, overshadows mobile workers outside this sector (Gorman‐Murray & Bissell, ), for example, in education and health sectors, or seasonal work.…”

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Choosing the northern periphery: Paradoxes in the ways of dwelling of new residents of Eastern Minganie (North Shore, Québec, Canada)

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Desmeules

2019

Population Space and Place

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Pulled by employment, Nordic exoticism, the desire to live "far" North or for other reasons, many Southerners choose to move to remote northern indigenous and nonindigenous communities in Québec (Canada). To better understand mobility and migration to northern peripheral regions, this article examines the paradoxical ways of dwelling of new residents who have settled in Eastern Minganie (North Shore, Québec), located about 1,300 km from Montreal, the province's metropolis. These migrants consist mainly of professionals in the fields of education, health, and social services. Research results point to four paradoxes related to mobility, remoteness, nordicity, rootedness, and otherness. They reveal both push and pull factors that nuance the idea of geographic remoteness as nothing more than a constraint on territorial development and local dynamism. Moreover, this article argues that mobility must be accepted, recognised, and even encouraged because, despite the paradoxes it raises, mobility remains essential to the vitality of Nordic peripheral areas.to re-examine the idea that remoteness is simply a constraint or limitation. Indeed, it is the paradoxes that have given form to the present article, exploring the roles played by mobility, proximity, nordicity, otherness, and rootedness in the migration experience of the neo-Mingan population. 2 | THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: WAYS OF DWELLING OF NEW RESIDENTS OF THE NORTHERN PERIPHERY Geographical remoteness and the mobility and migration it brings about are perforce behind the socioterritorial changes experienced by Nordic peripheral communities. Individuals and families leave, return, or stay for a variety of reasons: contractual obligations, changes in the seasons, territorial development policies, or socioeconomic conditions. From the regular or temporary mobility of fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) workers, to the more permanent migrations towards established communities, the arrival of neo-Northerners brings new dynamics in host communities. Due to their vulnerability caused among other things by their pressing needs in the areas of education, health, and social services, remote and Nordic populations invest considerable efforts to attract,

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confidence: 99%