Les Autochtones du Canada : une population aux multiples définitions

Abstract

Les populations autochtones Volume 38, numéro 2, automne 2009 URI : id.erudit.org/iderudit/044815ar

Who is Aboriginal? Variability in Aboriginal Identification between the Census and the APS in 2006 and 2012

“…That is the most inclusive criteria, adopted by New Zealand, for example, and it was the solution adopted by Canada before 1981. However, if all people of mixed Indigenous and European origin were counted as Métis (this assumes that all such people would be aware of their heritage) (Guimond et al 2009), the result would be a very large number of Métis. The estimates would probably be similar to what is seen in Latin America (Yashar 2015), since there is no reason to believe that similar levels of intermixing did not happen and are not happening presently in Canada.…”

Where have all the nomads gone? Fifty years of statistical and demographic invisibilities of African mobile pastoralists

“…Although this is particularly the case for people such as illegal migrants, many minority and marginalised populations are justifiably wary of the power of the state; human rights abuses have, at times, been founded on statistical and census data (Selzer and Anderson 2001). Refusing to respond to the census may be a way of exercising resistance as practised by some First Nations populations in Canada (Guimond et al 2009). Furthermore, census-type exercises undertaken by colonial administrators in Africa were largely about identifying those who should pay taxes, along with numbers and names of children who could be forcibly taken to school and young men for forced labour.…”